Nick Farhi
1987, New York
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Farhi's oeuvre has garnered an exciting reputation for questioning and critiquing the generational farces of zombie formalism while also pays tribute to numerous painters who have come before his time. His works are known for their contemporary translation of classical art forms. This proves his works to be particularly emphatic in their interpolation of history, as he aptly combines the romantic gesture of oil painting with the perceptual trickery and intellectual propensity of conceptual artworks. His "Wine paintings," a series based on marks of oil paint made to look like wine spills, contend an almost alchemical handling of his chosen medium, as well as grant equal importance to timing and placement in his compositional strategy. As a point of political and social reference, the paintings from the series aim to reclaim a new perspective of recounting historical relationships between a figure and its union to an object.
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The artist as a painter has poised himself as a vessel for the unknown and for the jovial truths we experience in beauty and in hardship. For example the studio drum paintings make novel use of an instrument’s skin as a circular structure with scuffs, while worn, are intended to be windows of human life and idyllic expression, which we have found to be the most central and eloquent message of the American artist's works and devotions.
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Works
Untitled Vessels_
Oil on aluminum panel
36x56cm
For Your Moon
Oil on aluminum
28 x 36 cm
Lavender Bard / of a von
Oil on aluminum
28 x 35 cm
Shared outdoor space (study)
Oil and pastel on aluminum
11 x 7 inch
Crescent wing plus salmon fish
Oil pastel on aluminum panel
14 x 14 inches
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITONS
2020
Transatlántico curated by Edoardo Monti, Mana Contemporary Museum, New Jersey
2019
Fun Han @ Karma International Los Angeles, US
2017
“Folklore”, Sade, LA, CA, (2017)
“Grisaille”, Leila Heller Gallery, NY, US
2016
“Shrines To Speed”, Leila Heller Gallery, NY, US
“Imagine”, Brand New Gallery Milan” , Italy March
2015
“First We Take New York”, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, NY, US
“Summer Objects Show”, Jonathan Viner Gallery, London, UK
“Naked Runaway”, XI Garden, New York, US
“Drift and Pop curated by Olivia Smith” Orgy Park, Brooklyn, NY
2013
“Bare Necessities” A Gathering of The Tribes, Curated by Steve Cannon, NY, US
“It's A Small Small World” at Mauritzio Cattelan's Family Business curated by Jayson Musson, NY, US
2012
"She's Crafty curated by Maggie Lee”, New Museum Downstairs, NY, US
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020
Residency & Exhibition @ Palazzo Monti, Brescia, Italy
2019
"Clay Orchestra¨, Tillou Fine Art, NY, US
2018
“Desert Bloomers”, GOLSA, Oslo, NO
2017
“Rodeo Christmas”, Serving The People Gallery, US
2016
“Across Hundred and Tenth Street”, Rod Bianco Gallery, Oslo, NO (Duet with Grear Patterson)
2015
“Belafonte”, United Artists Ltd, Marfa, Texas, US
“Don't Need Roads”, Bill Brady Gallery, Miami, US
“FILA: Falling In Love Again”, Neochrome Gallery, Turin, IT
2012
“It's All In The Wrist curated by Erin Goldberger” NY, US