Nina Bovasso Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
American, b. 1965
Nina Bovasso was Born and raised in NYC, NY, where she currently lives & works. Her work is held in many museum permanent collections in the United States, and other public & private collections in the US and abroad. Ms. Bovasso attended NYC Public School and was raised by a single working mom who worked as a textile designer. Living in the Murray Hill neighborhood of NYC, close by her grandmother who taught her to sew and design clothes. Both of Ms. Bovasso's parents were painters, who met while students at The Cooper Union School of Art in NYC.
Ms. Bovasso received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, attended the Skowhegan School of Art in Maine, & completed a MFA in Painting from Bard College. Predominantly a maker of works on paper, " I was influenced by her mother who was a textile designer, creating designs with gouache on paper. My attempt at making designs whilst a student at SFAI, played a huge role in defining my own voice as an artist. Using gouache on paper to make these designs, one day breaking free of the limitations prescribed for design making, I started doing my own thing. This “breaking free” I feel, also plays a role in the content of my work, when I speak of anti-design or pattern gone amok.”
Bovasso's work has been exhibited internationally, solo exhibitions include Josee Bienvenu Gallery in NYC, Sala Uno in Rome, Cleveland MOCA, Ohio, University Museum at SUNY Albany, New York; Galerie Schmela, Dusseldorf, Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, and Clementine Gallery, New York, NY. Group exhibitions include Out of Site, NewMuseum of Contemporary Art, NYC and Painters and Poets, Ulrich Museum, Wichita, KS. She is the recipient of several awards and grants, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, Louis Comfort Tiffany Artist Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and twice recipient from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. In 2012 she was awarded a MacDowell Colony Fellowship. Her work has been reviewed and collected widely in the US and abroad. Bovasso held temporary academic appointments at the University of Georgia, California College of Art, University of Virginia, and University of Tennessee, and presented lectures about her work at numerous universities, including Princeton University, Northwestern University and the Cornell.(Biography provided by Nina Bovasso)
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Artist: Nina Bovasso
Large Purple and Silver Vortex work on paper
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pink purple Multi Boobs two 16x20 inch Watercolor Painting
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pink purple Multi Boobs one 16x20 inch Watercolor Painting
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Tutti Frutti Multicolor Boobs 16x20 inch Watercolor Painting
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a new painting in the ongoing series of anthropomorphized shapes using the dispersed watercolor pigment technique.
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Earth Boobs 16x20 inch Watercolor Painting
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a new painting in the ongoing series of anthropomorphized shapes using the dispersed watercolor pigment technique.
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Purple Rain Abstraction watercolor on paper
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
I started making this intuitively driven painting on paper, with no particular idea in mind when I realized "oh, it looks like purple rain"
It looked to me like raindrops as they fall against a window.
A feeling already captured in pop culture with eponymous song by beloved artist Prince...
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Classic Nina Swirly Ball Giclee Print 30 x 40 inches
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Located in New York, NY
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Face Explosion 1 (1 of 4 suite) 9x12 inches on paper
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Face Explosion 4 (4 of 4 suite) 9x12 inches on paper
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
When I begin my explosion paintings these initial marks and forms tend to get buried under the accretion of marks compiled to form the work. In this suite of 4 works I began with a f...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Archival Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Face Explosion 2 (2 of 4 suite) 9x12 inches on paper
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
When I begin my explosion paintings these initial marks and forms tend to get buried under the accretion of marks compiled to form the work. In this suite of 4 works I began with a f...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Face Explosion 3 (3 of 4 suite) 9x12 inches on paper
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
When I begin my explosion paintings these initial marks and forms tend to get buried under the accretion of marks compiled to form the work. In this suite of 4 works I began with a f...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Nina Bovasso Large Diptych Swirling Flower Fields on Paper 80x 84 inches
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a unique work on paper from 2020. One of my big diptychs that mirror the scale 1:1 to our human bodies (in real time!) Simultaneously a space to enter and an object that touches on ideas such as an astral body or making visible what is unseen in spiritual or morphic fields.
This is 90 inches tall by 84 inches...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Purple Orb 2 with Spinning, Flying Disks
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a unique work on paper made in 2018 measuring 20 x 25 inches from my ongoing "mound" series. This "Purple Orb" has a "companion" work ,made at the same time, the same size an...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Archival Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
Unique Cosmic Sea Scape Abstract Watercolor Fantasy
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This unique work on Arches watercolor paper measures 22 x 30 inches. The "ink dispersal technique" I have been incorporating into my works since 1994 is at play here, staying true to...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Girl With Rabbit
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a large work on paper created during MacDowell Fellowship residency .
It is 60 x 51 inches on paper. There are figurative elements in the harlequin patterned abstract space ...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Archival Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
Purple Mound 1 with red violet discs
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a unique work on paper made in 2018 measuring 20 x 25 inches from my ongoing "mound" series. This "Purple Orb" has a "companion" work ,made at the same time, the same size an...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Pink Flowers in Grid
By Nina Bovasso
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This is a 30 x 36 inch work on paper created in 2020, which places flowers and "pink subjects" in the clearly dotted, gridded space of the rectangle. Ideas of what Masculine and Femi...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Blue Lace Thumbprint Mound
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
From ongoing series of "Gravity Bound Mounds". Each work is unique and arrives into a mound formation on a unique journey of mark making and subtle nuances...
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2010s Abstract Nina Bovasso Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Unique Red Flame Square Diptych on Paper
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a unique diptych format work on paper measuring 44 x 44 inches.
The work is made moving away from the center and conveying the directional flow of energy. Much like a plant o...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Archival Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
Unique Small Cobalt Blue Snoopies Dog Heads
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a unique painting on paper using acrylic cobalt blue paint on watercolor paper ,5 x 7 inches.
I have been drawing snoopy as an art subject since 1989.
The cloned dog resembli...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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