The Textural, Biomorphic, Marine-inspired Imagery of Lebanese Artist Nabil Nahas

Description

The Lebanon-born artist, who divides his time between New York and Beirut, imparts his reverence for nature and the environments that have profoundly influenced him throughout his life. In previous works he has painted the cedar and palm trees inspired by his childhood homes

This exhibit features three-dimensional works rendered in rich shades of ultramarine and turquoise, that appear as a vibrating ecosystem of encrusted forms portruding and multiplying from the canvas.

Using layer of layer of organic shapes covered in luminescent, hyperreal colours, Nahas mixes pumice powder into his paint that further enhances the materiality of the work, giving the impression of pure ground pigment or coral reefs.