Ned Vena
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Ned Vena (born 1984) is an American contemporary abstract painter based in Brooklyn who is known for his unusual choice of media.[1][2]
Education[edit]
He completed the AICAD New York Studio Program in 2004, and earned his BFA from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in 2005.
Work[edit]
Ned Vena is a New York-based painter who emphasizes the means of production of a kind of hard-edge abstract painting.[3] Vena’s oeuvre involves material behavior and meaning.[4] Vena is a painter who builds on the American tradition of minimalism and abstraction.[5] The artist's style is rooted in the art history of New York, where he lives and works, but avoids being dull through its combination of sensitivity, humor and conceptual rigor.[5] Vena works convey a comparable attitude to paintings by Joe Bradley: a dry wit that is conscious of history but not stifled by it.[5] However, what sets Vena apart is his use of unconventional materials.[5] He does not use acrylics and oils, which are instead replaced by industrial-grade rubber and vinyl.[5] Using spray cans and adhesive, each painting is produced using a unique set of processes, executed with the aid of an industrial cartographic machine.[5] Vena strives to make art that unmasks and refutes an aura of modernist optical purity.[3]
Vena’s background is in street art and commercial printing, and he creates paintings through stencils produced on digital plotting machines.[3] The technology was developed to efficiently repeat images, symbols or text onto posters or walls, but Vena subverts this expectation by using it to print non-signifying geometric patterns onto canvas.[3]
Vena moonlights as a vinyl sign-maker, where he utilizes the vinyl cutting machine that he employs to make stencils for his paintings for a client base composed primarily of other artists.[4] He runs this business simultaneously alongside his painting practice.[4] The glitch that the technology was developed to avoid constitutes Vena art’s content.[6] His method uses white polyurethane paint brushed on, a stencil is placed or realigned, and black rubber sprayed into the spaces between the white lines.[6] Vena’s materials are rhetorically industrial: the black rubber is normally used to cast the underside of cars. Its thinned deposits bleed over the dried white paint, amplifying the optical buzz of contrasting tones with traces of static.[3] Vena appropriates the scale and conceits of the geometric abstraction of Frank Stella, Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland—the serialism, the fetishizing of reiterated process—and brutally functionalizes it with his industrial process.[3]
Exhibitions[edit]
- Solo Exhibitions
- FACTS, Project Native Informant, London, 2018
- @societeberlin, Société, Berlin, 2017
- Paintings Without Borders II, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, 2016
- Clones, Project Native Informant, London, 2015
- Paintings Without Borders, Real Fine Arts, New York, 2014
- Ned Vena, Clifton Benevento, New York, 2012
- Ned Vena, Michael Benevento, Los Angeles, 2011
- Ned Vena, Max Hans Daniel, Berlin, 2010
- Ned Vena, Michael Benevento, Los Angeles, 2009
- Ned Vena, Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Berlin, 2008
- Selected Group Exhibitions
- Selbstbildnis, Société, Berlin, 2019
- CONDO, Project Native Informant, London, 2018
- Geometric Obsession, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires, 2015
- New York Painting, Kunstmuseum BONN, Bonn Germany, curated by Christoph Schreier, 2015
- Beware Wet Paint, Institute for Contemporary Arts, London, 2014
References[edit]
- ↑ "Ned Vena". artnet.com. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
- ↑ "Ned Vena". artsy.net. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 "Ned Vena". artnews.com. 25 September 2014. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Ned Vena at Real Fine Arts". contemporaryartdaily.com. 12 April 2014. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 "Taking aim at post-internet art's detractors: Ned Vena at Société". sleek-mag.com. 15 May 2014. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Ned Vena "Menace II Société" at Société, Berlin". moussemagazine.it. 7 June 2014. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
External links[edit]
- Ned Vena, Art Viewer, June 29, 2018
- Ned Vena, Project Native Informant, 2019
- 5 Questions: Ned Vena, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, 8 February, 2016
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