January 2013

New Work

Nina Ozbey’s is about spontaneity, about herself up. In her ongoing series of non-objective paintings, Ozbey let go of subject matter to explore composition, color and line, blending elements of design with intuition. For the artist, it is all about the process of putting paint onto canvas or paper and the choices that unfold as each work builds and evolves.

Working off the first brushstroke, for often that dictates the rest of the work, Ozbey takes pleasure in making marks, observing how each stroke relates to and energizes the next. The paintings are records of the brushes’ actions, webs of gestures that embrace something new and unseen.

In the end, the artist seeks to discover something fresh in each work, unlike anything she has encountered before. The results are not about communicating something specific or narrative, but derive from a place without rules. Freed from realism, these paintings possess a raw sense of movement and joy for the artist and the viewer.

View Ozbey’s works at www.ninaozbey.com