Nina Chanel Abney
Nina Chanel Abney Baby (Baby by Nina Chanel Abney)
2020

Name: Nina Chanel Abney Baby (Baby by Nina Chanel Abney)
Brand: Nina Chanel Abney
Price: 875 USD
Availability: InStock

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Nina Chanel Abney: Nina Chanel’s 'Baby' figure strikingly re-imagines Mickey Mouse as a man dressed in a bright red jumpsuit, with mirroring red circles stamped on the cheeks. Constructed with sharp angles and an asymmetrical mold, the figure is highlighted by a geometric silhouette with cubist-like features, including crooked facial features; and unbalanced shoulders, which slope inwards towards the figure's narrowing legs. The work comes housed in an elegant black & white collector's box illustrated by Abney with varying eye patterns. Painted cast vinyl; 2020. 10.25 x 3 inches. New in its original packaging. Stamped on the underside of the foot; from a sold out limited edition of unknown. Published by All Rights Reserved. Artist Biography: Combining representation and abstraction, Nina Chanel Abney’s paintings capture the frenetic pace of contemporary culture. Broaching subjects as diverse as race, celebrity, religion, politics, sex, and art history, her works eschew linear storytelling in lieu of disjointed narratives. Abney’s first solo museum exhibition, Nina Chanel Abney: Royal Flush, curated by Marshall Price, Nancy Hanks Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, was presented in 2017 at the Nasher Museum of Art, North Carolina. It traveled to the Chicago Cultural Center and then to Los Angeles, where it was jointly presented by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the California African American Museum. The final venue for the exhibition was the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York. Abney was born in Chicago and currently lives & works in New York. Her work is included in collections around the world, including the Brooklyn Museum, The Rubell Family Collection, Bronx Museum, and the Burger Collection, Hong Kong. Related Categories: Hebru Brantley. Art Toys. Figurative Sculptures. Red & Black sculpture. 21st Century Black artists. Bearbrick.

Creator:

Nina Chanel Abney (1982, American)

Creation Year:

2020

Dimensions:

Height: 10.25 in (26.04 cm)Width: 3 in (7.62 cm)

Medium:

Resin,Vinyl

Movement & Style:

Pop Art

Period:

21st Century

Condition:

Gallery Location:

NEW YORK, NY

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU354310338602

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Nina Chanel Abney

Through her contemporary large-scale paintings and Pop art-influenced figurative sculptures, artist Nina Chanel Abney explores a diverse range of subjects, from race, religion and politics to celebrity, sex and art history. Abney describes her art’s effect as “information overload balanced with a kind of spontaneous order” — a representation of life in the 21st century.

Abney was born in 1982 in Harvey, Illinois, a Chicago suburb where, as a child, she would draw characters from the cartoons she watched on television. She later studied studio art and computer science at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois, and earned a Master of Fine Arts from the Parsons School of Design in New York.

A painting from her master’s thesis titled Class of 2007, in which she depicts her white classmates as Black inmates and herself as a white prison guard, was included in the traveling exhibition “30 Americans”. The show featured the works of 30 notable African American artists and premiered at the Rubell Museum in 2008. In 2017, Abney’s first solo museum exhibition, “Nina Chanel Abney: Royal Flush,” was presented at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University in North Carolina. The show traveled to the Chicago Cultural Center, Los Angeles’s Institute of Contemporary Art, the California African American Museum and the Neuberger Museum of Art in New York.

Although Abney is best known for her vividly colorful, cartoonish paintings, she has also gained recognition for her abstract and still-life sculptures. These include her limited-edition resin and vinyl Baby (2020) figures, which reimagine Mickey Mouse as a man dressed in a bright red jumpsuit and feature a geometric silhouette reminiscent of Cubism.

Abney has recently taken on several commercial ventures. In 2021, she was commissioned by the rapper Meek Mill to design the cover art for his album Expensive Pain. In 2022, she collaborated with Nike to design the Air Jordan 2 Low sneaker. Abney also created a series of UNO playing cards for Mattel featuring her artwork as part of Pharrell Williams’s Black Ambition non-profit initiative.

Abney’s works are in collections around the world, including the Bronx Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Rubell Family Collection and the Burger Collection in Hong Kong.

On 1stDibs, find a range of Nina Chanel Abney’s sculptures, prints and more art.