George Nama Mixed Media
American, b. 1939
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.to
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Artist: George Nama
Untitled
By George Nama
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Gouache and charcoal on antique music paper
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary George Nama Mixed Media
Materials
Charcoal, Gouache
$900 Sale Price
25% Off
Modernist Torn Paper Collage, Paint 1960s Avant Garde Mixed Media George Nama
By George Nama
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Avant-Garde
Subject: Abstract
Medium: Mixed Media, Collage
Surface: Paper
Country: United States
Dimensions: 14" x 19"
Dimensions w/Frame: 19.25" x 25.5"
About Nama: In his s...
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1960s Modern George Nama Mixed Media
Materials
Paint, Paper, Ink, Mixed Media
Modernist Torn Paper Collage, Paint 1960s Avant Garde Mixed Media George Nama
By George Nama
Located in Surfside, FL
About Nama: In his studio, Nama paints over the right hand pages with gesso, then uses the pages to draw and paint sketches of forms and shapes as they float through his mind. The p...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern George Nama Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Untitled
By George Nama
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Gouache and charcoal on antique music paper
Category
2010s Contemporary George Nama Mixed Media
Materials
Charcoal, Gouache
$900 Sale Price
25% Off
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Fragment Replaced, Torn Paper Collage, Paint 1960s Avant Garde Mixed Media
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