nbsp; WHETHER ITS THE BREAKING NEWS or a song she recently heard, Nina Chanel Abney is inspired by contemporary events and meaningful moments that often find their way into her work and may spontaneously define or change its direction. A new generation storyteller, Abney blends abstraction and figuration. Her images draw on the public discourse, music, video games, Google searches, and vintage cartoons. The seemingly random compositions reflect urban life, address provocative topics, and echo our fast-paced, media-driven culture. Her latest body of work is a series of large-scale monoprints debuting tomorrow in a solo exhibition at Pace Prints in New York. The works explore a variety of subjects, including gentrification and housing discrimination; gender and identity issues; and America’s racially charged politics of division. “I am dealing with a lot of subjects, issues that are typically hard to talk about. My goal is to basically take these touchy topics and present them in a way that’s visually appealing that would get the viewer to interact with something that they might not normally want to,” said Abney, talking about her new prints in the video below. When discussing her work, she prefers not to dive too deep into the issues […]
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