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George Nama"Braid, " George Nama, serigraph, abstract art, ca 19771977
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Born in Homestead, across the river from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1939, artist George Nama specializes in abstracted figures rendered in a variety of media that respond to and illuminate the works of writers such as Charles Simic, Yves Bonnefoy and Alfred Brendel. In the 1960's Nama worked in William Stanley Hayter's influential Atelier 17 in Paris, as part of an international artistic circle. His first solo exhibition was held in 1963 at the Carnegie Institute Museum of Art in Pittsburgh and since that time he has exhibited at Shepherd & Derom Galleries in New York, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in Los Angeles as well as in galleries in Brussels, Munich, Japan and Paris, among others. Nama's works were included in the international art fairs in Maastricht, Netherlands and the Salon du Dessin in Paris. He was elected to and has served on the faculty of the School of the National Academy of Design in New York, where he has mentored and influenced new generations of artists.
Nama has collected, made and painted in books all of his adult life, beginning in Paris in 1966, when he created a book about the Métro that he hand-stitched together. Since that time, he has created more than one hundred unique sketchbooks with found objects bound using vintage book covers or pieces of fabric.
His works are held in the permanent collections of the Boston Athenaeum, Brooklyn Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Butler Institute of American Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Morgan Library & Museum, Yale University Art Gallery and the Carnegie Museum of Art.
- Creator:George Nama (1939, American)
- Creation Year:1977
- Dimensions:Height: 39.5 in (100.33 cm)Width: 26.75 in (67.95 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Wiscasset, ME
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU7524501421
George Nama
George Nama (b. 1939 - ) is an American artist. Nama claims that all his images, whether drawings, etchings or sculptures, are figurative. If they don’t show something that really exists, his configurations “might exist”. Nama’s city of his birth, Homestead, Pennsylvania played a major role in his artistic vocabulary and imagery created in the early 1960’s. Industrial and rugged and largely void of color, Nama recreated familiar city vistas in a rich palette of blacks and grays. Using casein paint, oil sticks, watercolors and inks Nama also masterfully reproduced interiors of his mother’s living room, and his grandmother’s kitchen. Some of the later works, his openly expressionistic sketches of trees, fast and precise, figures and country landscapes point to his transition towards abstraction. Already involved with poets and writers since the early 1960s, Nama collaborated in 1976 with his friend, the French poet and art historian Yves Bonnefoy, on artist’s books. This in turn fostered a series of artist’s books and exhibitions with Alfred Brendel and Charles Simic. During his long career, Nama has been represented in numerous important exhibitions, galleries, and public collections, such as The Morgan Library, the Boston Athenæum, The Metropolitan Museum, the Brooklyn Museum and the Carnegie Institute. He was recently included in the distinguished international art fairs at Maastricht and the Salon du Dessin in Paris.

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