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Art Subject: Skin
Beastie Boys and DJ Hurricane, NJ 1987
By Bob Gruen
Located in Toronto, ON
Open and Limited Edition Silver Gelatin Prints
Hand Signed by Bob Gruen
8" x 10" Unframed
Open Edition
11" x 14" Unframed
Open Edition
16" x 20" Unframed
Open Edition
20" x 24" U...
Category
1980s Other Art Style Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Neck Tattoo, Black and White Photograph by Warwick Saint
By Warwick Saint
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Warwick Saint (American, b. 1972)
Title: Neck Tattoo
Year: circa 2010
Medium: Photograph on Glossy Paper, signed and numbered verso
Edition: 2/7
Image Size: 23.5 x 17.5 inche...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Two Stars. St. Albans, VT
By David Saxe
Located in Hudson, NY
David Saxe - “Photography has always been the simple act of looking and being inspired to strip the unnecessary elements from the scene and frame the image down in a way to discover...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Untitled (Calendar) – Lina Scheynius, Black and White, Photography, Shadow, Hand
Located in Zurich, CH
Lina Scheynius (*1981 Sweden)
Untitled (Calendar), 2012
Fibre-based silver gelatin print, hand proofed by the artist.
Image 16 x 24 cm (6 1/4 x 9 1/2 in.)
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Not titled yet, from the series 'A Gaze of One's Own‘ – Brigitte Lustenberger
Located in Zurich, CH
Brigitte LUSTENBERGER (*1969, Switzerland)
Not titled yet, from the series 'A Gaze of One's Own‘, 2021
Silver gelatin print on Baryta paper
Sheet 70 x 70 cm (27 1/2 x 27 1/2 in.)
Edition of 5, plus 2 AP; Edn. no. 1/5
print only
Born in Zurich, Switzerland, Brigitte studied at Zurich University and received her MA in Social and Photo History in 1996. In the following years she established herself as an fine art photographer. She moved to New York and received her MFA in Fine Art Photography and Related Media at Parsons The New School of Design in 2007. The main issues in her works lie in her interest in the study of the gaze, the interplay between absence and presence in a photographic image, and the fact that the reading of a photograph is most often triggered by a collective memory. She explores the media itself and its close connection to themes like decay, memory, death and transitoriness.
Brigitte Lustenberger has shown nationally and internationally in both solo and group shows. She had Solo Shows at the Museée de l’Elysée in Lausanne/Switzerland, at Walter Keller’s Scalo Gallery in Zurich and New York, at Le Maillon...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Hundreds & Thousands, Big Sur California. Legs with Sand Sprinkles
Located in Carmel, CA
Hand printed photograph by artist.
From film photography - Rolleiflex.
Taken in Carmel, Big Sur California
Available in other sizes.
Category
Early 2000s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Kenny Scharf and Michel Roux
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work.
Photo dimensions: 8 x 10 in.
Work comes with an authentication letter from the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board.
Provenance: From the artist to Pat Hac...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Nell Campbell
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work.
Stamped on verso by The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Annotated with Foundation inventory number and initialed Tim ...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Just Hear Me Out!
Located in Denton, TX
Edition of 5
Archival Pigment Print
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Well Formed - Abstract B&W Nude, Fine Art Photography, 2009
By Sylvie Blum
Located in Vienna, AT
Black and White Nude from a Womans Back, photographed by Sylvie Blum in 2009.
All prints are limited edition. Available in multiple sizes. High-end framing on request.
All prints a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Tattooed Man at a Carnival
By Diane Arbus
Located in New York, NY
Diane Arbus, Tattooed Man at a Carnival
1970
Estate stamped and signed by Doon Arbus for the Estate of Diane Arbus, verso; Also titled, dated, and numbered, verso
Gelatin silver pr...
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Michael and Cathy in Les Baux in Arles, Two Models from AM Workshop
By Will McBride
Located in New York, NY
Michael and Cathy in Les Baux in Arles, Two Models from AM Workshop with Lucien Clergue
[Touching in the Cave in Les Baux Near Arles]
1976-8
Signed, titled, and dated in pencil, ver...
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Busta Rhymes, Busta Rhymes in B/W screaming, Fine Art Photography, 1997
Located in Vienna, AT
A photograph of the legendary Busta Rhymes at quite the young age before his career took of by Timothy White.
All prints are limited edition. Available in multiple sizes. High-end f...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Squid Tattoo, black and white close up photographic portrait by Charles Gatewood
Located in New York, NY
"Squid Tattoo" a black and white close up photographic portrait by Charles Gatewood depicting a man with a Studio stamp in black ink, verso
Gelatin silver print
11 x 14 inches, she...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Self Portrait, black and white photograph by Mark Morrisroe
Located in New York, NY
A black and white self portrait by Mark Morrisroe printed as a photogravure in 1996.
Self Portrait
1980/1996
Editioned in pencil, verso
Photogravure (Edition of 46)
16 x 11 inche...
Category
1980s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photogravure
Valkyrie Song
By Reka Nyari
Located in New York, NY
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerment. The series joins six women together, each who have faced adversity, to demonstrate the creation of a strengthened self-image through tattoos. By highlighting the intricate woven threads of ink on each woman’s skin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Mixed Media, Photographic Paper, Photogram
Spirit of Thor
By Reka Nyari
Located in New York, NY
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerm...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Mixed Media, Photographic Paper, Photogram
Cup of Blessing
By Reka Nyari
Located in New York, NY
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerment. The series joins six women together, each who have faced adversity, to demonstrate the creation of a strengthened self-image through tattoos. By highlighting the intricate woven threads of ink on each woman’s skin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Mixed Media, Photographic Paper, Photogram
Star of the Sea
By Reka Nyari
Located in New York, NY
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerment. The series joins six women together, each who have faced adversity, to demonstrate the creation of a strengthened self-image through tattoos. By highlighting the intricate woven threads of ink on each woman’s skin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Mixed Media, Photographic Paper, Photogram
Bride of Gudoko
By Reka Nyari
Located in New York, NY
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerm...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Mixed Media, Photographic Paper, Photogram
Tracing Petals
By Reka Nyari
Located in New York, NY
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerm...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Mixed Media, Photographic Paper, Photogram
'Breaking Bad' - Barscene with wolf, fine art photography, 2023
By David Yarrow
Located in Vienna, AT
All prints are limited edition. Available in multiple sizes. High-end framing on request.
All prints are done and signed by the artist. The collector receives an additional certifi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Inked In Kyoto
Located in New York, NY
Reka Nyari’s erotically charged photographs engage cultural narratives surrounding gender and sexuality. A master at the art of storytelling, Nyari’s newest series, GEISHA INK, documents Ginzilla, a dramatically-posed young woman whose naked body is lavishly-adorned with tattoos.
A champion of feminine fortitude, Nyari has long been fascinated with the art of capturing women without pretense. Recognizing strength in the vulnerability of the nude female form, she chooses most often to photograph women...
Category
2010s Photorealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographi...
Breaking Bad
By David Yarrow
Located in Los Angeles, CA
David Yarrow
Breaking Bad, 2023 - Joshua Tree, CA
Available in the following sizes:
Standard: 52 x 73 inches, Edition of 12
Large: 71 x 103 inches, Edition of 12
Archival Pigment Pri...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Yaa-sama Tears
Located in New York, NY
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerment. The series joins six women together, each who have faced adversity, to demonstrate the creation of a strengthened self-image through tattoos. By highlighting the intricate woven threads of ink on each woman’s skin, Nyari proposes the idea that self-empowerment and reconciliation with one’s traumas can be linked to the act of greeting one’s “own skin” or inventing their own story.
Nyari has now elevated these intimate photographs in her new Punctured Ink series through the process of puncturing botanical-like references into the surface of each image (thus making each one of a kind). Her inspiration to physically puncture the previously pristine photographic prints stemmed from a childhood memory that occurred while she was living in Finland: “I remembered my parents had this big pad of paper next to the home phone...
Category
2010s Photorealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographi...
Beauty of Atatori
Located in New York, NY
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerment. The series joins six women together, each who have faced adversity, to demonstrate the creation of a strengthened self-image through tattoos. By highlighting the intricate woven threads of ink on each woman’s skin, Nyari proposes the idea that self-empowerment and reconciliation with one’s traumas can be linked to the act of greeting one’s “own skin” or inventing their own story.
Nyari has now elevated these intimate photographs in her new Punctured Ink series through the process of puncturing botanical-like references into the surface of each image (thus making each one of a kind). Her inspiration to physically puncture the previously pristine photographic prints stemmed from a childhood memory that occurred while she was living in Finland: “I remembered my parents had this big pad of paper next to the home phone...
Category
2010s Photorealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Pho...
Thoth (Argentum by Guido Argentini)
Located in New York City, NY
60 x 60 inches
ed.3
Archival Pigment Print
MOUNTED AND FRAMED
Also available in 40x40in and 50x50in.
Limited edition signed print by Guido Argentini.
Guido Argentini was born in F...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Thoth (Argentum by Guido Argentini)
Located in New York City, NY
40x40in
ed.18
Archival Pigment Print
MOUNTED AND FRAMED
Also available in 48x48in and 60x60in.
Limited edition signed print by Guido Argentini.
Guido Argentini was born in Florenc...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Faded Flowers
By Reka Nyari
Located in New York, NY
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerment. The series joins six women together...
Category
2010s Realist Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Arc...
Shallow River
Located in New York, NY
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerment...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Pho...
Phoenix Rising
Located in New York, NY
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerment. The series joins six women together...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Pho...
Botanique
By Reka Nyari
Located in New York, NY
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerment. The series joins six women together...
Category
2010s Photorealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Photogram
More Ideas
By Reka Nyari
Located in New York, NY
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerment. The series joins six women together...
Category
2010s Photorealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Pho...
Nymph
By Reka Nyari
Located in New York, NY
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerm...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Mixed Media, Photographic Paper, Photogram
Nursing Madonna
Located in New York, NY
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerm...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Photo...
The Seeress
Located in New York, NY
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerm...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Pho...
Not of this World
Located in New York, NY
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerm...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Acrylic Polymer, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photog...
Kyoto Poetry
Located in New York, NY
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerm...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Arc...
Shieldmaiden
Located in New York, NY
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerm...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Pho...
My Blade, My Beloved
Located in New York, NY
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerm...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Pho...
Dance of Irezumju
Located in New York, NY
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerm...
Category
2010s Photorealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Pho...
Throne of Wisdom
Located in New York, NY
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerm...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Photogram, Archival Pi...
My Erikae
Located in New York, NY
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerm...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Photogram, Archival Pi...
Chooser of the Slain
Located in New York, NY
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerm...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Acrylic Polymer, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photog...
Blue Smoke
Located in New York, NY
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerm...
Category
2010s Photorealist Nude Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Pho...
Madame Butterfly
Located in New York, NY
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerm...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Pho...
I am Freyja
Located in New York, NY
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerm...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Acrylic Polymer, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photog...
Onna-Oyabun
Located in New York, NY
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerm...
Category
2010s Photorealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Pho...
Epona (Argentum by Guido Argentini)
Located in New York City, NY
40x40in
ed.18
Archival Pigment Print
UNFRAMED
Also available in 48x48in and 60x60in.
Limited edition signed print by Guido Argentini.
Guido Argentini was born in Florence, Italy in 1966. He lives and works in between Los Angeles, Florence and Rio. Argentini blends the erotic and artistic in his photographs. Taking the ancient Greek concept of Eros as a starting point, Argentini explores the nature of desire. His series span glamorous old Hollywood – inspired color photographs to black-and-white boudoir shots.
Argentum by Guido Argentini evokes the luminous polished planes of the work of Brancusi and the verve of Degas’ ballet...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Thoth (Argentum by Guido Argentini)
Located in New York City, NY
40x40in
ed.18
Archival Pigment Print
MOUNTED AND FRAMED
Also available in 48x48in and 60x60in.
Limited edition signed print by Guido Argentini.
Guido Argentini was born in Florence, Italy in 1966. He lives and works in between Los Angeles, Florence and Rio. Argentini blends the erotic and artistic in his photographs. Taking the ancient Greek concept of Eros as a starting point, Argentini explores the nature of desire. His series span glamorous old Hollywood – inspired color photographs to black-and-white boudoir shots.
Argentum by Guido Argentini evokes the luminous polished planes of the work of Brancusi and the verve of Degas’ ballet...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Protector of Odin
Located in New York, NY
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerm...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Pho...
The Flower & The Willow
Located in New York, NY
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerm...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Pho...
IVY- Various sizes and prices are available upon request
By Greg Lotus
Located in New York, NY
Photograph - female centric - b/w. Very evocative.
About the Artist:
Greg Lotus is an American fashion photographer based between Miami and New York. His work can be found regu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Wagon Wheel- Various sizes and prices are available upon request
By Greg Lotus
Located in New York, NY
Fashion photograph. Other sizes available.
About the Artist:
Greg Lotus is an American fashion photographer based between Miami and New York. His work can be found regularly in the pages of Italian Vogue, Vanity Fair, GQ, L'Uomo Vogue...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
LE JARDIN
By Reka Nyari
Located in New York, NY
Print is also available in a Medium size : 40'' x 56'' and is priced at : $14,000. It is a black and white photographic print, with uniquely handmade puncture designs by the artist, set in a black shadow box frame.
The new series “Punctured Ink” incorporates works from Nyari’s ongoing, portrait project titled “Ink Stories”.
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerment. The series joins six women together, each who have faced adversity, to demonstrate the creation of a strengthened self-image through tattoos. By highlighting the intricate woven threads of ink on each woman’s skin, Nyari proposes the idea that self-empowerment and reconciliation with one’s traumas can be linked to the act of greeting one’s “own skin” or inventing their own story.
Nyari has now elevated these intimate photographs in her new Punctured Ink series through the process of puncturing botanical-like references into the surface of each image (thus making each one of a kind). Her inspiration to physically puncture the previously pristine photographic prints stemmed from a childhood memory that occurred while she was living in Finland: “I remembered my parents had this big pad of paper next to the home phone in Finland and I would use my mother’s sewing needles to poke patterns into the paper”.
This nostalgic memory in combination with the longing to apply her physical, painterly abilities resulted in the choice to transform these photographs via puncturing the paper. Unlike painting or drawing on the surface of each print, the raised, brail like holes created leave a permanent result, just as a tattoo does on one’s skin. While the surface of an artwork, like skin, is typically preserved and or avoided, Nyari follows in the subject’s footsteps by purposely destroying the pristine surface in order to create a new narrative. The act taps into a long history of tribal scarification which signified a right of passage, permitting the individual to transcend their past traumas and transforming their evolved selves. This notion grounds all of her works.
In addition, Nyari’s choice to puncture nature-based patterns into each portrait also has its own significance. She stated that when “talking about scarification and getting over trauma, to me, nature is one of the most healing and beautiful elements.”
As Nyari is emphasizing through her photographs, when you add a personal story onto the skin, it is a whole new layer that often becomes biographical. It translates a story to the audience of one’s past, future and wishes. While this concept existed in her previous photographic series, now, through puncturing the surface of each, Nyari is adding another layer of permanence onto her works’ meaning, therefore becoming, as she calls it “ink cubed”.
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Born in 1979 in Helsinki, and raised in Finland and Germany, Nyari came to New York City at the age of seventeen. While here, she studied at the School of Visual Arts where she not only began to model but found her passion for photography. Using inspiration from masters such as Helmut Newton and Cindy Sherman, Nyari’s work employs and explores the traditional ideal of beauty and gender to portray sexuality from a predominately female perspective. She utilizes technical elements such as gestures, nudity, the subject’s gaze, objects and more to link this connection of the empowered feminine identity. Her work has been exhibited in numerous galleries throughout the United States and Europe and through such exposure, she has received multiple prestigious awards including the first-place winner of the International Photography Awards in 2010, Beauty Pro Category. Her 225-page Monograph titled “Femme Fatale: Female Erotic...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, Archi...
DANDELION
By Reka Nyari
Located in New York, NY
Print is also available in a Large size: 63'' x 50'' and is priced at: $16,000. A black and white photographic print, with uniquely handmade puncture designs by the artist, set in a black shadow box frame.
The new series “Punctured Ink” incorporates works from Nyari’s ongoing, portrait project titled “Ink Stories”.
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerment. The series joins six women together, each who have faced adversity, to demonstrate the creation of a strengthened self-image through tattoos. By highlighting the intricate woven threads of ink on each woman’s skin, Nyari proposes the idea that self-empowerment and reconciliation with one’s traumas can be linked to the act of greeting one’s “own skin” or inventing their own story.
Nyari has now elevated these intimate photographs in her new Punctured Ink series through the process of puncturing botanical-like references into the surface of each image (thus making each one of a kind). Her inspiration to physically puncture the previously pristine photographic prints stemmed from a childhood memory that occurred while she was living in Finland: “I remembered my parents had this big pad of paper next to the home phone in Finland and I would use my mother’s sewing needles to poke patterns into the paper”.
This nostalgic memory in combination with the longing to apply her physical, painterly abilities resulted in the choice to transform these photographs via puncturing the paper. Unlike painting or drawing on the surface of each print, the raised, brail like holes created leave a permanent result, just as a tattoo does on one’s skin. While the surface of an artwork, like skin, is typically preserved and or avoided, Nyari follows in the subject’s footsteps by purposely destroying the pristine surface in order to create a new narrative. The act taps into a long history of tribal scarification which signified a right of passage, permitting the individual to transcend their past traumas and transforming their evolved selves. This notion grounds all of her works.
In addition, Nyari’s choice to puncture nature-based patterns into each portrait also has its own significance. She stated that when “talking about scarification and getting over trauma, to me, nature is one of the most healing and beautiful elements.”
As Nyari is emphasizing through her photographs, when you add a personal story onto the skin, it is a whole new layer that often becomes biographical. It translates a story to the audience of one’s past, future and wishes. While this concept existed in her previous photographic series, now, through puncturing the surface of each, Nyari is adding another layer of permanence onto her works’ meaning, therefore becoming, as she calls it “ink cubed”.
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Born in 1979 in Helsinki, and raised in Finland and Germany, Nyari came to New York City at the age of seventeen. While here, she studied at the School of Visual Arts where she not only began to model but found her passion for photography. Using inspiration from masters such as Helmut Newton and Cindy Sherman, Nyari’s work employs and explores the traditional ideal of beauty and gender to portray sexuality from a predominately female perspective. She utilizes technical elements such as gestures, nudity, the subject’s gaze, objects and more to link this connection of the empowered feminine identity. Her work has been exhibited in numerous galleries throughout the United States and Europe and through such exposure, she has received multiple prestigious awards including the first-place winner of the International Photography Awards in 2010, Beauty Pro Category. Her 225-page Monograph titled “Femme Fatale: Female Erotic...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, Pigme...
VENATION
By Reka Nyari
Located in New York, NY
Print is also available in a large size: 63'' x 50'' and is priced at: $16,000 Each work is a one-of-a-kind, unique piece that is hand punctured. The work also comes with a black floating frame.
The new series “Punctured Ink” incorporates works from Nyari’s ongoing, portrait project titled “Ink Stories”.
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerment. The series joins six women together, each who have faced adversity, to demonstrate the creation of a strengthened self-image through tattoos. By highlighting the intricate woven threads of ink on each woman’s skin, Nyari proposes the idea that self-empowerment and reconciliation with one’s traumas can be linked to the act of greeting one’s “own skin” or inventing their own story.
Nyari has now elevated these intimate photographs in her new Punctured Ink series through the process of puncturing botanical-like references into the surface of each image (thus making each one of a kind). Her inspiration to physically puncture the previously pristine photographic prints stemmed from a childhood memory that occurred while she was living in Finland: “I remembered my parents had this big pad of paper next to the home phone in Finland and I would use my mother’s sewing needles to poke patterns into the paper”.
This nostalgic memory in combination with the longing to apply her physical, painterly abilities resulted in the choice to transform these photographs via puncturing the paper. Unlike painting or drawing on the surface of each print, the raised, brail like holes created leave a permanent result, just as a tattoo does on one’s skin. While the surface of an artwork, like skin, is typically preserved and or avoided, Nyari follows in the subject’s footsteps by purposely destroying the pristine surface in order to create a new narrative. The act taps into a long history of tribal scarification which signified a right of passage, permitting the individual to transcend their past traumas and transforming their evolved selves. This notion grounds all of her works.
In addition, Nyari’s choice to puncture nature-based patterns into each portrait also has its own significance. She stated that when “talking about scarification and getting over trauma, to me, nature is one of the most healing and beautiful elements.”
As Nyari is emphasizing through her photographs, when you add a personal story onto the skin, it is a whole new layer that often becomes biographical. It translates a story to the audience of one’s past, future and wishes. While this concept existed in her previous photographic series, now, through puncturing the surface of each, Nyari is adding another layer of permanence onto her works’ meaning, therefore becoming, as she calls it “ink cubed”.
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Born in 1979 in Helsinki, and raised in Finland and Germany, Nyari came to New York City at the age of seventeen. While here, she studied at the School of Visual Arts where she not only began to model but found her passion for photography. Using inspiration from masters such as Helmut Newton and Cindy Sherman, Nyari’s work employs and explores the traditional ideal of beauty and gender to portray sexuality from a predominately female perspective. She utilizes technical elements such as gestures, nudity, the subject’s gaze, objects and more to link this connection of the empowered feminine identity. Her work has been exhibited in numerous galleries throughout the United States and Europe and through such exposure, she has received multiple prestigious awards including the first-place winner of the International Photography Awards in 2010, Beauty Pro Category. Her 225-page Monograph titled “Femme Fatale: Female Erotic...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Pigment, Pigment, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment, Plexiglass, Archiva...
PATRONNE
By Reka Nyari
Located in New York, NY
Print is also available in Medium size: 50'' x 40'' and is priced at $13,000. A black and white photographic print, with uniquely handmade puncture designs by the artist, set in a black shadow box frame.
The new series “Punctured Ink” incorporates works from Nyari’s ongoing, portrait project titled “Ink Stories”.
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerment. The series joins six women together, each who have faced adversity, to demonstrate the creation of a strengthened self-image through tattoos. By highlighting the intricate woven threads of ink on each woman’s skin, Nyari proposes the idea that self-empowerment and reconciliation with one’s traumas can be linked to the act of greeting one’s “own skin” or inventing their own story.
Nyari has now elevated these intimate photographs in her new Punctured Ink series through the process of puncturing botanical-like references into the surface of each image (thus making each one of a kind). Her inspiration to physically puncture the previously pristine photographic prints stemmed from a childhood memory that occurred while she was living in Finland: “I remembered my parents had this big pad of paper next to the home phone in Finland and I would use my mother’s sewing needles to poke patterns into the paper”.
This nostalgic memory in combination with the longing to apply her physical, painterly abilities resulted in the choice to transform these photographs via puncturing the paper. Unlike painting or drawing on the surface of each print, the raised, brail like holes created leave a permanent result, just as a tattoo does on one’s skin. While the surface of an artwork, like skin, is typically preserved and or avoided, Nyari follows in the subject’s footsteps by purposely destroying the pristine surface in order to create a new narrative. The act taps into a long history of tribal scarification which signified a right of passage, permitting the individual to transcend their past traumas and transforming their evolved selves. This notion grounds all of her works.
In addition, Nyari’s choice to puncture nature-based patterns into each portrait also has its own significance. She stated that when “talking about scarification and getting over trauma, to me, nature is one of the most healing and beautiful elements.”
As Nyari is emphasizing through her photographs, when you add a personal story onto the skin, it is a whole new layer that often becomes biographical. It translates a story to the audience of one’s past, future and wishes. While this concept existed in her previous photographic series, now, through puncturing the surface of each, Nyari is adding another layer of permanence onto her works’ meaning, therefore becoming, as she calls it “ink cubed”.
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Born in 1979 in Helsinki, and raised in Finland and Germany, Nyari came to New York City at the age of seventeen. While here, she studied at the School of Visual Arts where she not only began to model but found her passion for photography. Using inspiration from masters such as Helmut Newton and Cindy Sherman, Nyari’s work employs and explores the traditional ideal of beauty and gender to portray sexuality from a predominately female perspective. She utilizes technical elements such as gestures, nudity, the subject’s gaze, objects and more to link this connection of the empowered feminine identity. Her work has been exhibited in numerous galleries throughout the United States and Europe and through such exposure, she has received multiple prestigious awards including the first-place winner of the International Photography Awards in 2010, Beauty Pro Category. Her 225-page Monograph titled “Femme Fatale: Female Erotic...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, Paper...
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