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Nina Bovasso Abstract Paintings

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.
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Artist: Nina Bovasso
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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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Transistor Radio Painting on Canvas 4x6 inches Mute series by Nina Bovasso
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
I've been making these "radio paintings" for about 20 years. I love music and I was thinking about music related objects- like the platinum records "a...
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2010s Nina Bovasso Abstract Paintings

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Gesso, Canvas, Ink, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars

Colorful Painted Cardboard Collage on Canvas Pile in relief w/ Thread 16x20 inch
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
Colorful Painted Cardboard Collage on Canvas Pile in relief with Thread 16x20 inches. Built and mounted on top of a stretched canvas support, Cardboa...
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2010s Arte Povera Nina Bovasso Abstract Paintings

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Metal

Large Multicolor Snoopies Allover Crowd 40x60 inches on paper
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
Multicolor Snoopies Allover Crowd 40x60 inches on paper. This work was shown in 2015, however I added more Snoopies! At first it many not be obvious this is a dog head repeated, an...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Abstract Paintings

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Archival Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper

Black and White Snoopies in a Crowd Painting on Canvas 16x20 inches
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
Black and White Snoopies in a Crowd Unique Painting on Canvas 16x20 inches. This is from the series of "Snoopy Influence" paintings and drawings I have been making for three decades....
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Stretcher Bars, Acrylic, Gesso

Green Boobs with Magenta Nipples Watercolor on Paper 22x30 Green Power
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
The "ink dispersion " technique I began decades ago has evolved from abstraction into this figurative imagery. Working quickly while the paint is wet and allowing the water in water...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Abstract Paintings

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

Flaming Burst 2022
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
High quality Giclee print on paper by Nina Bovasso from "Flaming Energy" series. Distilling down the the simplest of marks used in constructing the two panel diptychs, to the essenti...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Digital, Giclée, Archival Paper

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 Paintings

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Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper, Archival Ink

Utopian City-Scape Architectural Sprawl Painting on Paper
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a "classic Nina " cityscape imaginary architectural mound. Painting in 2009 on paper, 38 x 63 inches, it extends the horizontal aspect of the work to have a walking-along-wit...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Abstract Paintings

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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 Paintings

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Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache

Small Multicolor Snoopies Painting on canvas
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a small unique painting in canvas of multicolor snoopies. These repeated dog heads blend in with each other and create a patterning much like a kind of camoflage. A lot of sn...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Stretcher Bars, Acrylic, Gesso

Multicolor Allover Snoopies 2
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a unique work on paper, 26 x 40 inches, created in 2020. The ongoing "snoopies" series continues to hold my interest after more than 20 years of my celebrating this celebri...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Abstract Paintings

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Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper

Nina Bovasso, Horizontal Black and White Snoopies on Canvas
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a Black and white "Snoopies" painting by Nina Bovasso, painted on a gesso primed, light weight canvas (muslin) 94x 55 inches (140 x 240 cm) The myriad of dogs in this image...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Abstract Paintings

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Gesso, Muslin, Ink, Acrylic

Wide and Wild Big Diptych
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a large diptych on paper, 68 x 101 inches, created in 2020. What is unique to this one is the wider horizontal width. I think of my large diptychs as simultaneously a figure...
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2010s Nina Bovasso Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper, Ink

Colorful Dot in Grid Allover Pattern Jazzy Colors
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a painting on canvas, 11 x 14 inches , of colorful interactive "dots in a grid". Complicating the grid by simultaneously sticking to a dot in grid, bit changing colors makes ...
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2010s Abstract Nina Bovasso Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars

Purple Grid in Grid Cityscape
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a painting on canvas made in 2008. there is great detail, a world within a world in this 16 x 20 inch acrylic on canvas painting. There are metallic paints used to give the s...
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2010s Abstract Nina Bovasso Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

MultiColor Snoopies Crowd of Dogs on Canvas
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a 12 inch square acrylic on canvas painting from Nina Bovasso's ongoing "Snoopies" series. The subject never grows tired even though Ms.Bovasso has been drawing snoopy for ...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars

Horizontal Transfer Painting 2013
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a large acrylic paint "transfer painting" created in 2013, 140 x 240 cm ( 55 x 95 inches) Painting on fragments of plastic then transferring to prepared canvas is a techniqu...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Abstract Paintings

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Gesso, Canvas, Acrylic

Large Transfer Painting Diptych Spaceship / Portal
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a large transfer painting created during a MacDowell Fellowship residency in 2012. This "transfer" process allows me to play with painted fragments on plastic and then colla...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Abstract Paintings

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Gesso, Canvas, Acrylic

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 Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache

Blue Boobs
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
From an ongoing series that began with an "ink dispersal" on wet paper, I have continued to evolve technique and imagery over the years.
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Abstract Paintings

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Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Blue Mound of Balls
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
Unique work on paper from signature style of "gravity bound mounds" series. varying nuances of different marks and visual times make this work a dynami...
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2010s Abstract Nina Bovasso Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache

Red Ball of Balls
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
Signature style "gravity bound mound" on going series of works on paper.
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2010s Abstract Nina Bovasso Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache

Swirly Ball with Silver on Black Ground
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
I have been making this "swirly ball" tumbleweed like image for over twenty years. The thread keeps going! the silver paint is very striking against the black background. This is the...
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2010s Abstract Nina Bovasso Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Acrylic

Phoenix Explosion on Black Ground
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
I've been making the explosion series since 2003. The emphasis is on the energetic aspect of the marks.
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2010s Abstract Nina Bovasso Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Acrylic

Kaleidoscope (Vortex Painting)
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This unique painting started out with a very loose circular drawing. Next, I used this as the structure to define with paint a shapes defined by straight-lined geometrical, off-gr...
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2010s Abstract Nina Bovasso Abstract Paintings

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Gesso, Canvas, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars

Transfer Painting Number 4
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This large acrylic on canvas painting was made using a process I call "transfer paintings". I paint on plastic sheeting, and then transfer this to a prepared canvas support. Fragmen...
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Early 2000s Abstract Geometric Nina Bovasso Abstract Paintings

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Gesso, Canvas, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars

Wheels (Transfer Painting)
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This unique acrylic on canvas painting is made using a transfer process. I paint on plastic and then transfer that to a canvas support. For this one I painted several "wheel like" ...
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2010s Abstract Nina Bovasso Abstract Paintings

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Gesso, Canvas, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars

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 Paintings

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Archival Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper

Black and White Snoopies on Canvas 2
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a painting in canvas that has been unstretched, From the ongoing "Snoopies" series
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic, Gesso, Canvas, Ink

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