Nina Bovasso Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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.(Biography provided by Nina Bovasso)
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Artist: Nina Bovasso
Snoopies in the Sea small painting on canvas.
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
Snoopies in the sea painting from my ongoing snoopies series. A very democratic idea as when I was a kid everybody was drawing snoopy. Anyone can draw snoopy!
1000 reasons why I draw...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, 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 Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
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 Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
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 Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, 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 Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
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 Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Giclée
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...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper
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 Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache, 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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper
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 Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, 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 Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache, 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 Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, 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 Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, 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...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache, 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 Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
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-wit...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache, 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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival 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 Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, 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 Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Archival Ink, 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 Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Multicolor Allover Snoopies 2
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a unique work on paper, 26 x 40 inches, created in 2020. The ongoing "snoopies" series continues to hold my interest after more than 20 years of my celebrating this celebri...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
Wide and Wild Big Diptych
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a large diptych on paper, 68 x 101 inches, created in 2020. What is unique to this one is the wider horizontal width. I think of my large diptychs as simultaneously a figure...
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2010s Nina Bovasso Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
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 Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
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 Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Circle of Pink Boobs Watercolor Tondo
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a circle shaped heavy watercolor paper sheet with a monochrome pink watercolor painting of breast -likes shapes. Warm, sensual and nurturing is conveyed through this whimsica...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Blue Boobs
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
From an ongoing series that began with an "ink dispersal" on wet paper, I have continued to evolve technique and imagery over the years.
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Blue Lace Thumbprint Mound
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
From ongoing series of "Gravity Bound Mounds". Each work is unique and arrives into a mound formation on a unique journey of mark making and subtle nuances...
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2010s Abstract Nina Bovasso Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache
Pink Boobs 2
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
Unique watercolor painting on paper simultaneously abstract and figurative.
The bright pink monochromatic image is a friendly pop of color with hints at figuration.
This is an ongoin...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Green Boobs with Magenta Nipples Watercolor on Paper 22x30 Green Power
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
The "ink dispersion " technique I began decades ago has evolved from abstraction into this figurative imagery.
Working quickly while the paint is wet and allowing the water in water...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Multicolor Snoopies Unique Hand Colored Dog Lovers screen print 2
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a unique hand colored work.
A one color screen print is used as a foundation, measuring 11x 14 inches.
This is from my ongoing snoopies series I began in 1999.
When I was a ...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper, Screen
Unique Red Flame Square Diptych on Paper
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a unique diptych format work on paper measuring 44 x 44 inches.
The work is made moving away from the center and conveying the directional flow of energy. Much like a plant o...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
Unique Small Cobalt Blue Snoopies Dog Heads
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
This is a unique painting on paper using acrylic cobalt blue paint on watercolor paper ,5 x 7 inches.
I have been drawing snoopy as an art subject since 1989.
The cloned dog resembli...
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2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Small Unique Watercolor Pink Boobs Painting
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
The abstract " ink dispersion technique " paintings I started making in 1994 has morphed into a this simple and evocative figurative "boobs" in an abstract space. This painting is un...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nina Bovasso Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
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