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Nick PeñaFrom the Bottom Up - Contemporary Landscape/Abstract Painting, cut out, blue2017
2017
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Peña’s works range from painting to multimedia installations that question the ever-changing psychological landscape of America; asking the viewer to re-examine their perceptions of the “American Dream” and the affects that pursuit has on our environment.
In "From the Bottom Up", Peña takes a more traditional approach to representing a landscape with bold and vivid colors and contrasts the image with a more abstracted and chaotic foreground consisting of arrows and cut Sintra board to act simultaneously as an obstruction and window into the image. The work is framed with a 1 inch white border.
Nick Peña is an Associate Professor in Visual Arts at Christian Brothers University. He earned his B.F.A. from the School of Art and Design at Southern Illinois University –Carbondale; his M.F.A from the University of Missouri –Columbia; and has studied abroad at the Hospital field Centre for Art & Culture in Arbroath, Scotland. Peña’s work has been showcased in gallery and museum exhibitions both locally and nationally and published in New American Paintings.
- Creator:Nick Peña (American)
- Creation Year:2017
- Dimensions:Height: 12 in (30.48 cm)Diameter: 12 in (30.48 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Signal Mountain, TN
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU98513402403
NICK PEÑA IS CURRENTLY DEPARTMENT CHAIR AND ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ART IN THE VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS DEPARTMENT AT CHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY LOCATED IN MEMPHIS, TN. M.F.A. University of Missouri, Columbia, 2005 B.F.A. Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 2001 Nick Peña (b. Joliet, Illinois) is a visual artist and art educator with 10+ years of teaching art in higher education. His research focuses on the contemporary American landscape, the American Dream, and the effects that ideal has on both our environment and our national psyche. His paintings and installations play off the contrasts between past and present, representation and abstraction, and stability and instability. He has received numerous awards and his work has been exhibited throughout the United States and featured in New American Paintings multiple times. He’s participated as an artist in residence at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Crosstown Arts, and North Louisiana Virtual Residency, The Ross Lynn Charitable Foundation in partnership with North Central Louisiana Arts Council.
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