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Nina Bovasso Art

American, b. 1965
Nina Bovasso was Born and raised in NYC, NY, where she currently lives & works. Her work is held in many museum permanent collections in the United States, and other public & private collections in the US and abroad. Ms. Bovasso attended NYC Public School and was raised by a single working mom who worked as a textile designer. Living in the Murray Hill neighborhood of NYC, close by her grandmother who taught her to sew and design clothes. Both of Ms. Bovasso's parents were painters, who met while students at The Cooper Union School of Art in NYC. Ms. Bovasso received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, attended the Skowhegan School of Art in Maine, & completed a MFA in Painting from Bard College. Predominantly a maker of works on paper, " I was influenced by her mother who was a textile designer, creating designs with gouache on paper. My attempt at making designs whilst a student at SFAI, played a huge role in defining my own voice as an artist. Using gouache on paper to make these designs, one day breaking free of the limitations prescribed for design making, I started doing my own thing. This “breaking free” I feel, also plays a role in the content of my work, when I speak of anti-design or pattern gone amok.” Bovasso's work has been exhibited internationally, solo exhibitions include Josee Bienvenu Gallery in NYC, Sala Uno in Rome, Cleveland MOCA, Ohio, University Museum at SUNY Albany, New York; Galerie Schmela, Dusseldorf, Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, and Clementine Gallery, New York, NY. Group exhibitions include Out of Site, NewMuseum of Contemporary Art, NYC and Painters and Poets, Ulrich Museum, Wichita, KS. She is the recipient of several awards and grants, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, Louis Comfort Tiffany Artist Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and twice recipient from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. In 2012 she was awarded a MacDowell Colony Fellowship. Her work has been reviewed and collected widely in the US and abroad. Bovasso held temporary academic appointments at the University of Georgia, California College of Art, University of Virginia, and University of Tennessee, and presented lectures about her work at numerous universities, including Princeton University, Northwestern University and the Cornell.
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Artist: Nina Bovasso
Black Flowers w Rainbow Colors
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
Created in 2006 in a very elaborate editioning process by two incredible NYC not for profits who work with artists to make amazing creations. The black flowers are a Screenprint don...
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21st Century and Contemporary Nina Bovasso Art

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Archival Paper, Pigment, Screen

2024 Mound of Dots
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a classic Nina Bovasso "gravity bound" mound work on paper from 2024. 9 x 11 1/2 inches This small compressed image packs a large burst of color. Using a dot as an Increment...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Art

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Archival Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper

small snoopy portrait in blue on canvas.
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
small portrait of snoopy interpretation. Snoopy is a celebrity. Everyone can draw snoopy. The nose knows. Intuition. Dog is my co-pilot. Nina Bovasso has been making snoopy or snoopi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nina Bovasso Art

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Canvas, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars

Reaching for the stars large work on paper
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a large unique work on paper by Nina Bovasso.
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Benevolent Sea Beings Watercolor on paper
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is the ink dispersal technique used by Nina Bovasso for many decades. Now morphing the blob shapes more into creatures, a group of friendly, smiling creatures populate this fu...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Art

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Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Watercolor

Bovasso Picasso
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
Spontaneous fun play on name spelling as homage to the revered master Picasso. unique work on paper
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nina Bovasso Art

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Ink, Acrylic, Archival Paper

Pluisje, Fluffy White Dog Portrait Small canvas
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
Small dog portrait of fluffy white dog. acrylic on canvas.
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Art

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Canvas, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars

Blue Dogs Watercolor Sampler
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is the ink dispersal technique used by Nina Bovasso for many decades. Now morphing the blob shapes more into creatures, a group of friendly dog like figures populates this fun ...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Art

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Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Blue Watercolor Tondo with Creatures and Sea Things
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a monochrome blue watercolor tondo. Made on a round watercolor sheet, playful images of creatures cum phalluses come eclectic sea stuff interac...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Art

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Archival Paper, Watercolor

Cosmic Explosion Diptych on Black ground paper
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a Nina Bovasso signature style diptych on paper. Created in a black ground paper, metallic silver paint creates a startling pop in this dynamic pictorial explosion.
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Art

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Archival Ink, Acrylic, Archival Paper

Large Pink Tulips like Waving Hands painting on paper
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a medium large work on Arches paper with pink tulips using watercolor technique. Some of the tulips are floating off, some are like waving hands. Harmony and friendship are c...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Art

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Archival Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Two Snakes, OnePink, One Blue, One for Me and One for You, watercolor on paper
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
Unique painting on paper by Nina Bovasso implementing her signature "ink dispersal" technique into animal forms. The snake imagery is used imposed on the formal line-shape adding me...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Art

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Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Pink Cat Head Tulip Watercolor w Heart Shaped Nose
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
Cat Head Tulip watercolor painting on paper.
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Art

Materials

Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Nina Bovasso Small Multicolor Snoopies painting on Paper
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
multicolor snoopies painting on paper , 5x 7 inches.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nina Bovasso Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Watercolor, Acrylic

Large Urpflanze Diptych with Symmetrical Tulips
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a unique work on paper in Nina Bovasso's signature diptych format. A Plant-like structure plays on symmetry as well as referencing an open book.
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Large Intense Red Flowers and dots Diptych
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a large unique work on paper in Nina Bovasso's signature diptych format. An intense red field of flowers has an active surface of multicolor dots that are lot mardi Gras bead...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Large Red Flowers and Water Splashes Dynamic Composition on Paper 2
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a unique work on paper by Nina Bovasso. The dynamic composition of splashy blues and hot red flowers is fresh and energetic and more of an emotional landscape.
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Small Blue and orange explosion with fluffy grey clouds
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a recent unique work on paper, continuing in the ongoing "explosion" series. A controlled chaos, and a strategy to have an action emanating from the center of the work. Rough...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nina Bovasso Art

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Archival Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Blue Hue Butterfly Diptych Water effect
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a signature Nina Bovasso diptych painting on paper. Using a pigment dispersal technique, floating transparent amoeba like blobs occupy the background of this work. With the t...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nina Bovasso Art

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Archival Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Pink Flowers Burst with Green Sprays
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a unique work on paper using various water based paints on Hahnemühle paper. Part of my explosion series , this work stays in the realm of flowers, thus a celebratory pink fl...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Multicolor Explosion on paper 2024
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a work on paper by Nina Bovasso from her ongoing "explosion" series. Bovasso began making the explosion works in 2004. They are a direct response from the artist's signature ...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Art

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Archival Ink, Acrylic, Archival Paper

Flat Earth Holon (work on paper)
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
this work on paper imagines a flat slice from a spherical shaped earth. sort of like a round disco floor. Created on a sheet of black Hahnemühle paper.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nina Bovasso Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Acrylic, Archival Paper

Multicolor Butterfly Diptych on paper 2024
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This work on paper is from Nina Bovasso's signature style diptych series. The artist began making the diptychs in 1995. These works are asymmetrical playing off of symmetrical pairin...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nina Bovasso Art

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Archival Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper

pink purple Multi Boobs one 16x20 inch Watercolor Painting
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a painting from 2019 in the ongoing series of anthropomorphized shapes using the dispersed watercolor pigment technique. Painted on Arches Watercolor paper, this unique wo...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Art

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

Large Blue vortex waves on paper
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This work on paper is a vortex of waves attempting to capture the tumultuous energy of the ocean. Lightness is present implying a playfulness.
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Art

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Archival Ink, Acrylic, Archival Paper

pink purple Multi Boobs two 16x20 inch Watercolor Painting
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a painting from 2019 in the ongoing series of anthropomorphized shapes using the dispersed watercolor pigment technique. Painted on Arches Watercolor paper, this unique wo...
Category

2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Art

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

Monochrome Blue Cool Explosion on paper
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
this is a monochrome blue work on paper from ongoing "explosion" series. informed by Bovasso's "gravity bound mounds", here the work locates the focus into the center and explodes it...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nina Bovasso Art

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Archival Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper

purple rain two with metallics work on paper
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a painting on paper from 2019 exploring the theme of Purple Rain. Making literal song titles or lines from songs is a sometime point of departure for making a work. This wor...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Art

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

Large Purple and Silver Vortex work on paper
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a large painting on paper from 2020 that makes an optical pulsing with marks emanating from a central point exploring the vortex theme....
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Art

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Watercolor, Archival Paper, Acrylic

Snoopies in the Surf panorama long scroll painting on paper
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a 36 inch by 36 foot unique Snoopies in the Surf painting on paper created as a site specific work for the2023 exhibition at the NYPL Tompkins square branch. In 1999 I made ...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Art

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Gesso, Cotton Canvas, Archival Ink, Oil, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars

Snoopies in the Abyss large painting
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is the large, unique Snoopies in the Abyss painting on canvas from a solo show I had in Chelsea NYC at the now defunct Clementine gallery. The large naturalistic forms on each s...
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Early 2000s Nina Bovasso Art

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Gesso, Cotton Canvas, Archival Ink, Oil, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars

Suite of four works on paper "Exploding Faces"
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a suite of 4 works of "exploding faces" Taking a leap from Ms. Bovasso's signature "explosion" drawings, here a figurative element is added.
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Art

Materials

Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper

Snoopies Exodus between two blues
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This unique painting on canvas is from my ongoing Snoopies series I began making in 1999. The two large color fields of blue are a metallic paint, ea...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Art

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Canvas, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars

Tutti Frutti Multicolor Boobs 16x20 inch Watercolor Painting
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a new painting in the ongoing series of anthropomorphized shapes using the dispersed watercolor pigment technique. Painted on Arches Watercolor paper, this unique work is 1...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Art

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

Earth Boobs 16x20 inch Watercolor Painting
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a new painting in the ongoing series of anthropomorphized shapes using the dispersed watercolor pigment technique. Painted on Arches Watercolor paper, this unique work is 1...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Art

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

Black and White Snoopies in a Crowd Painting on Canvas 16x20 inches
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
Black and White Snoopies in a Crowd Unique Painting on Canvas 16x20 inches. This is from the series of "Snoopy Influence" paintings and drawings I have been making for three decades....
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Art

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Gesso, Canvas, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars

Classic Nina Swirly Ball Giclee Print 30 x 40 inches
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a "classic Nina Swirly Ball", in high quality Giclee print on Hahnemuele Etching paper, sized at 30 x 40 inches in an edition of 100. This work ...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Art

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Archival Paper, Giclée

Purple Rain Abstraction watercolor on paper
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
I started making this intuitively driven painting on paper, with no particular idea in mind when I realized "oh, it looks like purple rain" It looked to me like raindrops as they fall against a window. A feeling already captured in pop culture with eponymous song by beloved artist Prince...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Art

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Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Unique Small Pink Snoopies Watercolor Dogs Cluster
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
I've been drawing Snoopy as a subject in my painting for decades now. It is a satisfying shape to draw. Many people from my generation drew Snoopy when they were kids, thus there's a...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Art

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

Face Explosion 1 (1 of 4 suite) 9x12 inches on paper
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
When I begin my explosion paintings these initial marks and forms tend to get buried under the accretion of marks compiled to form the work. In this suite of 4 works I began with a f...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Double Snoopy Snoopy Twins Snoopy Coupling Portrait on Canvas
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
Double Snoopies portrait on canvas. Dog Twins Double portrait 8x 10 inches on canvas.
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2010s Nina Bovasso Art

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Canvas, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars

Face Explosion 4 (4 of 4 suite) 9x12 inches on paper
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
When I begin my explosion paintings these initial marks and forms tend to get buried under the accretion of marks compiled to form the work. In this suite of 4 works I began with a f...
Category

2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Face Explosion 2 (2 of 4 suite) 9x12 inches on paper
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
When I begin my explosion paintings these initial marks and forms tend to get buried under the accretion of marks compiled to form the work. In this suite of 4 works I began with a f...
Category

2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Snoopies in Blue on paper
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a 6 x 9 ink work on paper from the "Snoopies" series. Drawing Snoopy as a kid was common in my generation. Cloning this dog into a team who operate on instinct, gives levity,...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Art

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Archival Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Colorful Painted Cardboard Collage on Canvas Pile in relief w/ Thread 16x20 inch
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
Colorful Painted Cardboard Collage on Canvas Pile in relief with Thread 16x20 inches. Built and mounted on top of a stretched canvas support, Cardboa...
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2010s Arte Povera Nina Bovasso Art

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Metal

Black and White Snakes ink on Watercolor Paper
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a black and white monochrome painting using ink on Arches Watercolor paper. The work is 22 x 30 inches and depicts (perhaps a family?) four snakes. I started the snakes paintings...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Art

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper

Face Explosion 3 (3 of 4 suite) 9x12 inches on paper
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
When I begin my explosion paintings these initial marks and forms tend to get buried under the accretion of marks compiled to form the work. In this suite of 4 works I began with a f...
Category

2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper

GARDEN SPIRIT LADY
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This painting on canvas 16 x 20 inches began as an atmospheric abstract landscape painting. A face appeared and I decided to allow it to live in the canvas rectangle. She is quite ha...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Art

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Canvas, Oil, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars

Transistor Radio Painting on Canvas 4x6 inches Mute series by Nina Bovasso
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
I've been making these "radio paintings" for about 20 years. I love music and I was thinking about music related objects- like the platinum records "a...
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2010s Nina Bovasso Art

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Gesso, Canvas, Ink, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars

Nina Bovasso Large Diptych Swirling Flower Fields on Paper 80x 84 inches
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a unique work on paper from 2020. One of my big diptychs that mirror the scale 1:1 to our human bodies (in real time!) Simultaneously a space to enter and an object that touches on ideas such as an astral body or making visible what is unseen in spiritual or morphic fields. This is 90 inches tall by 84 inches...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Art

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Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper

Pink Flowers in Grid
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a 30 x 36 inch work on paper created in 2020, which places flowers and "pink subjects" in the clearly dotted, gridded space of the rectangle. Ideas of what Masculine and Femi...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Art

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Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper

Large Multicolor Snoopies Allover Crowd 40x60 inches on paper
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
Multicolor Snoopies Allover Crowd 40x60 inches on paper. This work was shown in 2015, however I added more Snoopies! At first it many not be obvious this is a dog head repeated, an...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Art

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Archival Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper

Utopian City-Scape Architectural Sprawl Painting on Paper
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a "classic Nina " cityscape imaginary architectural mound. Painting in 2009 on paper, 38 x 63 inches, it extends the horizontal aspect of the work to have a walking-along-with-the-work aspect. The surface has subtle texture nuances, using flat paint...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Art

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Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper

Unique Cosmic Sea Scape Abstract Watercolor Fantasy
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This unique work on Arches watercolor paper measures 22 x 30 inches. The "ink dispersal technique" I have been incorporating into my works since 1994 is at play here, staying true to...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Art

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Archival Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Purple Mound 1 with red violet discs
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a unique work on paper made in 2018 measuring 20 x 25 inches from my ongoing "mound" series. This "Purple Orb" has a "companion" work ,made at the same time, the same size an...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Art

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Archival Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper

Purple Orb 2 with Spinning, Flying Disks
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a unique work on paper made in 2018 measuring 20 x 25 inches from my ongoing "mound" series. This "Purple Orb" has a "companion" work ,made at the same time, the same size an...
Category

2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper

Three Birds & Flowers Watercolor Tondo
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a celebration of Spring with pink flowers and blue birds painted on a thick round watercolor paper sheet measuring 16 inches (41cm) in diameter. the tondo shaped surface heig...
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21st Century and Contemporary Symbolist Nina Bovasso Art

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Archival Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Girl With Rabbit
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a large work on paper created during MacDowell Fellowship residency . It is 60 x 51 inches on paper. There are figurative elements in the harlequin patterned abstract space ...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Art

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Archival Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper

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