Night Gallery is pleased to announce the release Robert Nava's Bloodsport, a new catalogue designed by Jessica Fleischmann (Still Room).
Bloodsport commemorates the artist's exhibition of the same name, which was on view at Night Gallery in 2022. In this exhibition, dedicated to works on paper, the artist answers the formal challenge of working in a broad range of scales and activates the spontaneity permitted by the materiality of the surface. Nava's tableaux originate in a lifelong drawing practice that remains essential to the development of his visual vocabulary: the compulsive, near-constant act of drawing allows for intuitive gestures and interplays between materials to emerge without constraint. There is a common sense of freedom in the making and viewing of Bloodsport: unexpected interactions between acrylic, oil stick, and grease pencil upon the paper underscore the joyful experimentation that marks Nava's distinctive style.
Softcover 10 x 8", 80 pages, first edition, 2022
$40 + tax and shipping
Copyright © Robert Nava and Night Gallery 2022
Images © Night Gallery and Pace Gallery
All texts and publication © Night Gallery 2022
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
ISBN 979-8-88627-773-9
Published by Night Gallery
Edited by Jayne Pugh
Designed by Jessica Fleischmann, Still Room
Printed by Typecraft, Inc.
Artwork Photography by Jonathan Nesteruk and Robyn Lehr Caspare
Installation Photography by Marten Elder
Available from Night Gallery
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