Nathlie Provosty

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Nathlie Provosty (born 1981 in Cincinnati, Ohio), [1] is an American visual artist living in Brooklyn, New York. She earned her bachelor's degree in Fine Arts at the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2004. The following year Provosty received a Fulbright Fellowship in painting, and spent a year primarily focused on painting and drawing in India.Specifically Ms. Provosty exercised her fellowship in and around Meherabad, India, located in the central region of Maharashtra state. In 2007, she earned her Master's degree in Fine Arts at University of Pennsylvania. [2] After receiving her master's degree, she immediately moved to Brooklyn, NY focusing predominately on her art.

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Career

In 2013, Provosty created the CD and Vinly artwork for the album titled Aheym performed by the Kronos Quartet. The music is composed by the musician Bryce Dessner a member of the musical group The National. In 2014, she collaborated with the poet Robert Kelly. Together, with his poetry and her ink wash images, they produced the book "The Color Mill". In 2020, together with poet Anne Waldman, they published the fanfold collaboration book titled "All rainbows in a brainstem, that we be so contained".

Provosty was the recipient of the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for Painting in 2012 awarded by The American Academy of Arts and Letters. [3]

In 2012, Provosty had her first one-person exhibition at "1:1", an experimental artist-run gallery in New York. Her first exhibition in a commercial gallery was held at Nathalie Karg Gallery in New York in 2016. [4] [5] Her work is in the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art [1] the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, [6] and MoMA. [7]

Painting style

Provosty is well-known for her oil paintings on linen and ink washes on paper. By using monochromatic shades of color, she often creates schemes that at first appear geometrically simple but contain implied depths of field, floating elements and nuanced variations of major form elements. She often applies colors to abstract figures with gloss surfaces "floating" in a field of more subtle space and forms with matte finishes. This motif creates variable experiences revealed by angle of view. The changing views reveal the works’ layers. [8]

Provosty also utilizes various media in her works. In the 2016 exhibition at Nathalie Karg Gallery in New York, Provosty created an expanded multi-sensory experience by manipulating colors at the far reach of the spectrum and the surfaces that vibrate and disappear. [4]

Provosty is well regarded for her masterly application of the mediums she employs.

Exhibitions

Provosty's paintings have been exhibited extensively in North America and Europe, including Baltimore Museum of Art, Colby Museum of Art, the Farnsworth Museum, and the Portland Museum of Art. [2]

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

References

  1. 1 2 "Provosty, Nathlie". San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
  2. 1 2 "Biography of Nathlie Provosty". Widewalls.
  3. ↑ "Nathlie Provosty's CV" (PDF). Nathalie Karg Gallery.
  4. 1 2 3 "Nathlie Provosty Exhibitions - The Third Ear". Nathalie Karg Gallery.
  5. ↑ Roberta Smith (April 21, 2016). "The Lower East Side as Petri Dish". The New York Times.
  6. ↑ "Nathlie Provosty". Albright-Knox. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
  7. ↑ "Nathlie Provosty. A Diptych in Five Parts. 2016". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
  8. ↑ "Nathlie Provosty - Overview". Artsy.
  9. 1 2 "Frail Mighty Exhibitions". Kunsthall Stavanger.
  10. 1 2 "Nathlie Provosty - Biography". nathlieprovosty.com.
  11. ↑ Lauren Palmer (December 9, 2015). "20 Emerging Female Artists to Keep on Your Radar".
  12. ↑ Lalia Pedro (April 29, 2016). "Paintings that Sensuously Shift in Tone and Texture".
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