Untitled (bells), Acrylic on Canvas on Panel, 24x36"
"Eventide", Acrylic on Panel, 24x80"
Summer 2011 Issue - NY Arts Magazine
also:
May 20, 2011, Art’s New View: The 12 best Colorado artists 35 and under – The Denver Post. Kyle MacMillan writes;
Residence: Denver
Media: Painting and drawing
Why we like him: Abels creates sublimely understated works that are poised between the real and imagined, with their enigmatic narratives and hushed tonal effects. He has all the ingredients, including refined technique and a wholly distinctive vision, to forge a major national career.
Art-world cred: Emerging artist of the year, The Denver Post, 2009
His take: “My work is primarily realistically based paintings and drawings. They explore the landscape and its inhabitants. Many of my images depict a paused narrative, such as a parachutist in free fall or an encounter with a bison in the woods.”
Influences: David Lynch, Vija Celmins, Henning Kles
Art today: “Artists have access to such a wealth of visual material, it is easy to become overstimulated and difficult to find meaning.”
also – here is a new painting:
"Alive to Guess Again", Acrylic on Panel, 16x20"
As part of the review of Mamma Andersson at the Aspen Art Museum;
…”Andersson’s distinctive voice, anchored in dark, Bergmanesque sensibility of her native Scandinavia, perhaps holds a special resonance for Colorado, because of the parallels between its topography and that of Sweden. Certainly, some of the state’s artists, such as Nathan Abels of Denver, tread similar physical and emotional landscapes in their work. Abel’s painting ‘Kairos’, 2010, for example, offers a stark enigmatic view of a lonely road cutting through an icy landscape that looks both real and alien.”
Kyle MacMillan, Art Forum, April 2011, page 223
- “Shroud”, Acrylic on Canvas on Panel, 14×11″
- Drift”, Acrylic on Canvas on Panel, 12×12″
"Further", Acrylic on Canvas, 12x12"
I will have at least two of my most recent paintings (the moon and the above pictured new painting) at the Rule Gallery opening tonight as part of the group show in the back of Sarah McKenzie’s solo show Concrete/Abstract.
Opening: Sarah McKenzie, Concrete/Abstract - November 19th, 6-9 pm
Rule Gallery, 227 Broadway, Unit 101, Denver, CO 80203
Also- upcoming exhibition:
2011 National Contemporary Exhibition @ The Art Center
1803 N. 7th Street, Grand Junction, CO 81501
May 13 – June 25, 2011
Opening June 3, 2011
untitled (moon), Acrylic on Canvas on Panel, 24x36"
New Work, New Exhibition
Published August 17, 2010 Drawing , Exhibitions , New Work , Painting , Uncategorized 2 CommentsI will have two pieces at Artlink Gallery in an exhibition called “Landscapes: Urban and Rural” in Fort Wayne, Indiana- opening Friday August 20th from 6-9 pm. This includes a never before exhibitied work called “Reverberation”:
- “Reverberation”, Acrylic on Panel, 16×20″
I also finished a drawing that was started earlier this year:
"Half-Seeing", Charcoal and Ink on Paper, 22x30"
Michael Paglia from the Denver Westword reviewed the “Stark” show at Foothills Art Center, saying of my work;
“the exhibit begins with some remarkable, barely-there drawings by Nathan Abels. ‘City Park Morning’ is so faint, it takes a moment or two to come into focus; it’s almost as if Abels has simply exhaled graphite. An apparition-like video of his exudes a similar faintness.”
I was also featured on the art-blog My Love for You is a Stampede of Horses and some tumblr blogs: the locative case, sunday afternoon rain, and drawing architecture.
I updated the Painting and Drawing galleries today. I also have several works up at Foothills Art Center in Golden, Colorado as part of the “Stark” exhibition:
This room includes a site-specific painting of a very small astronaut along with several works on paper.
