ABOUT
The paintings
Gehl paints memories. Whether they are scenes or portraits, colour or not, they are always memories, tarnished and deformed by a recollection that seeks a physical form with which to appear and tell.
She navigates an alternation of rivers of colour and their total absence, as in the indecision we all have in choosing whether our thoughts – maybe even our dreams- are in colour or black and white. *
Starting with found photographs as reference, Gehl diverges from the photo by working from memory and imagination. Her ash paintings involve a painstaking sorting through and an intricate application of various shades of ash, the works in oil are built up through a repetitive process of layering and over-painting.
BIO
Bom and educated in New York, U.S., Nina Gehl was an artist in residence in Balatonfured, Hungary in 2000 before moving to London, U.K. where she received an MA in Fine Art and completed an Associate Research Degree. She has been selected as a semi-finalist for the Zurich Contemporary Painting Prize and also chosen as a finalist for the Guasch Coranty International Painting Prize, in Barcelona. Gehl has had acclaimed solo exhibitions in London, Rome and New Zealand, has taken part in numerous international group exhibitions, and her paintings are in private collections globally
* Boni, Riccardo. Extracts edited from
‘NINA GEHL’
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