Exhibition Postcards and Posters
April 10 – Denver Post, “Art show strikes a happy medium in quantity, quality”
“Nathan Abels, an emerging Denver artist featured in January in a stunning solo exhibition at the Rule Gallery, is no doubt pleased he entered the open. He won the juror honorable mention from Heinrich, a nice seal of approval.”
March 9-16 – Blog press for new Print:
The Knack, Automatism, OMG Posters, Postcards from Colorado, Happy Mundane, The Scoop, Twentytwo blog, Design Milk , Design for Mankind; This Week in Inspiration, Things magazine, Design Crisis
February 24, 2009 – Fort Wayne Reader; Nathan Abels: Expatriate
“At 28 years of age, Abels’ is right on track to have a very nice career, being that a general rule of thumb is “representation at 30, museums by 40, making money in your 50’s, and retrospectives soon after”. Hopefully Fort Wayne will be lucky enough to see more of Nathan Abels work in the future, and we can revel in the gorgeous works of one of our expatriate artists.”
February 6, 2009 – Booooooom!
January 15, 2009 – Denver Post: Nathan Abels’ Own Stamp
“…the young artist successfully marries concept with craft, matching his distinctive creative vision with deft, well-honed paint-handling skills.
‘Stills’ demonstrates again that gallery owner Robin Rule’s eye for talent remains keen. Abels possesses all the ingredients necessary for a significant artistic career.“
December 19, 2008 – Rocky Mountain News:
“Finally, in the far back space, Rule has moved into the realm of quasi-photography, with a shift into anti-photography, in a way. “Still,” a selection of acrylic-on-panel paintings by Colorado-based artist Nathan Abels, includes some of the highly representational works he does of the contemporary landscape and its built features.
But there also are grayed- or browned-out scenes – View From a Train is the major example – that add a component of abstraction to a body of work by a young artist who has an eye for where and how we live and how we perceive our surroundings.
It adds to the mystery of what, in essence, is a trip through time and the evolution of technology, and vision.”
November 18, 2008 – Denver Connects writes,
“In the back of the gallery, Nathan Abel’s Stills showcase all-to-real scenes of lonely office buildlings, a hushed house, and blank, white trucks lined up on a street. Beautifully rendered, the scenes evoke both a sense of familiarity and loneliness. Evoking the solitary sense of suburban and even urban landscapes, the paintings are haunting, comforting, and at the same time disquieting. Staring at them in the series, I was reminded of the great David Byrne film True Stories, as they both capture the ennui, dread, and strange beauty of the human landscape so perfectly.
The shows run at Rule through Jan. 10th and are definitely something to see.”
November 10, 2008 – Dear Ada writes, “I really do adore the subject matter he explores, the architecture and landscapes of modern life, all beautifully rendered and conceived. It doesn’t get much better than this as far as I’m concerned.”
September 19, 2008 – Image in Rocky Mountain News
September/October Issue of Humanist Magazine – Image credit.
August 28, 2008 - Rocky Mountain News, “Eco-Centric”(pdf) Mary Voelz Chandler writes,”Across from Feige’s work are three paintings by Nathan Abels that offer a different view of his talents. Viewers familiar with Abels’ almost-exaggerated archtectural views will see a different side to this Denver-based artist in three new landscapes that capture both the potentially destructive power of nature (Without Haste, But Without Rest) and its beauty (Monument).”
August, 2008 Issue – Artist Profile, “Vantage Point” – written by Katie Taft in First Issue of Modern in Denver Magazine
July, 2008 -University of St. Francis, BroadStrokes Vol. IX, Issue I.
July 16, 2008 – Design Crisis mentions my Tiny Showcase print
June 27, 2008 – C-Monster
June 10, 2008 – Ken Hamel, Director of DenverArts.org writes, “And seeing the works up close did not disappoint: the pieces are like a cinematic travelogue through a monochromatic storyline whose characters are trees, construction sites and fading horizons.”
June 6, 2008 -Kelly Lynn Jones of Little Paper Planes Blog writes, “look at these rich, yummy oil paintings below! Those darks he has are just so intense…”
June 3, 2008 – C-Monster Calendar
May 22, 2008 – Leah Giberson writes, “It’s not often that I have such a physical and emotional response to a piece of art, but this was one I couldn’t get over.”
May 20, 2008 – Featured on Tiny Showcase
May 20, 2008 – OMG Posters
March 18, 2008 – C-Monster.net
March 12, 2008 – The Aesthetist features my work
March 2, 2008 – Twenty2wo Blog describes me as a “multi-disciplinary artist covering paint and drawing to photography and video”
March 1, 2008 – Artist A Day feature
February 17, 2008 – Hess&Hodi writes, “he’s had a smattering of solo and group shows, and to anyone who worries his work is a bit stagnated, take a look at the review of his most recent show “a portrait of the artist as a young pigeon”. it’s a dramatic departure, but thematically relevant to his work and illustrative of my suspicion that he has an exciting career ahead.”
February 13, 2008 – Katie Taft for ThisWeekinDenver reviews my exhibition with Chris Faller called “Grisaille” in an article called “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Pigeon”, writing “Don’t miss this show. It is really one of the most intelligent that I’ve seen this year, and beautifully executed as well.”
February 5, 2008 – Beacon Street Design features my work
January 10, 2008 – Michael Paglia of Denver’s Westword reviews the Plus Gallery show “Twinkle, Twinkle”, briefly writing, ” I also liked the drawings and the single painting depicting tract houses by Nathan Abels”
December 21, 2007 – Mary Voelz Chandler of Rocky Mountain News writes, “Abels’ small maplike drawings Outer Edge and Layout set the stage for the soaring painting Indiana. Placing a row of tract houses at the bottom of an elongated canvas plays with the idea of perspective, while his grasp of detail is particularly strong.”
December 17, 2007 – My work featured on the cover of ThisWeekinDenver.com
December 13, 2007 – Susan Froyd of Denver’s Westword writes, “On the heels of Art Miami, Zeile presents Twinkle, Twinkle, a stunning group exhibition of works by seven of those exemplary emerging locals, including shining stars Nathan Abels, Mindy Bray, Travis Egedy, Martin Sammy Gardea, Noah Manos, Lela Shields and Leafe Zales.”
October 5, 2007 - Denver Westword writes up the group exhibition “Transmute” that I am in – mentioning me as one of the “new faces” to Denver
August 29, 2007 – Dear Ada writes, “I love the almost organic movement of the houses across the page, as if the housing development grew there rather than being ‘planned’. “
July 19, 2007 – “Rethinking the silhouette” at The Scoop
July 13, 2007 – Katie at The Constant Gatherer writes, “Nathan has an amazing range of artistic talent. I’m in awe of his process (he often develops his subject matter through photography), his incredible sense of design, and the arrestingly austere paintings that result.”
June 12, 2007 – The Scoop writes, “Abels’ work makes the ‘mundane’ look strikingly beautiful.”
May 25, 2007 – Designage Blog features my work
May 2007 – Image Credit in Atlanta Magazine
March 21, 2007 – Coudal Partners highlights my “Beautiful vapor trails.” under “Fresh Signals”
December 20, 2006 – Fort Wayne Reader’s “2006 Arts Review” asks Charles A. Shepard III, executive director, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, “Which local artist most caught your attention this year? [Shepherd replies] Three people seemed head and shoulders above everyone this year – Kat Rohrbacher, Mee Kyung Shim, and Nathan Abels just burn the house down. Their minds are aflame, their individual mastery of their media is high, and their voices are fresher and more content-laden than anyone I saw in Chicago or New York this year. These three artists are intellectually nimble, aesthetically capable of walking the razor’s edge, and give us all reason to celebrate the fact that the raw strength of contemporary American Art is found not in the mythic urban jungle, but the heartland.”
June 2006 – Featured Artist in Fort Wayne Magazine
May 7, 2006 – Fort Wayne Journal Gazette does a “State of the Art” feature and includes myself with other local artists. Samual Hoffman of the Journal Gazette writes, “Abels’ attention to detail gives his work an almost photographic quality, with the depth and mood of an Edward Hopper painting.”
