NEW YORK, NY.- Bortolami Gallery announced the representation of acclaimed painter Nathlie Provosty (b. 1981, Cincinnati, Ohio; based in New York).
Provosty is best known for subtle, sensual abstractions imbued with luminous color. Provosty has described her paintings as “humming, twisting, and wrapping inward, while likewise vibrating outward.” Forms within the paintings disappear altogether when viewed from certain angles, only to brightly animate when seen from a different position. Apparently shallow spaces created through chromatic juxtapositions and overlapping images conjoin to suggest atmospheric depth. Perception is further complicated by false edges and trompe l’oeil shadows. The combined elements reveal the artist’s ongoing investigation into non-verbal communication, paradox, and belief.
As Yuki Higashino wrote in a review of Provosty’s work published in Artforum, “To grasp the works’ intricate compositions takes concentration. And they are practically unphotographable.” Their resistance to reproduction or quick digestion is a result of their capability to operate the medium of time… paintings that unfold, deepen, and expand energetically, without dogma.
Provosty has been known to work at vastly different scales. Recent paintings have ranged in height from 9+ feet, in the form of vertically stacked canvas diptychs, to her long-running series of “Icon” paintings that are sized at 9 x 6 inches, the approximate size of a face. The artist has had a parallel drawing practice for the entirety of her painting career, where experimentation and invention are foregrounded, although bound within thematic groups that evolve. She is currently at work on a series of drawings on synthetic paper, using sumi ink and watercolor flooded into marks that delineate ethereal, nocturnal space.
Provosty’s next projects with Bortolami will be a presentation of new works at The Campus in Hudson, New York and at Art Basel in Basel, both opening this June.
Nathlie Provosty (b. 1981, Cincinnati, Ohio; based in New York) has had recent solo exhibitions at ICA Milano, Italy and Risorgimento Museum, Turin, Italy. Recent group exhibitions include a dual presentation with works by Carol Rama at Collezione Ramo, Milan, Italy and To Bend the Ear of the Outer World, curated by Gary Garrels at Gagosian, London, United Kingdom.
Her works are in institutional collections such as MoMA, New York; SFMoMA, San Francisco; MFA Houston; Norton Museum, West Palm Beach; Buffalo AKG Art Museum; Baltimore Museum of Art; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine; Rubell Family Collection, Miami; Colby Museum of Art, Maine; Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, New York; Olgiati Collection, Lugano, Switzerland; PART, Palazzi dell’Arte Rimini, Italy
