Selected works of Nina Kossman will be on exhibition at Green Kill from March 2 , 2019 until March 20, 2019 along with works by four other artists including Deirdre Day, Giancarlo Fellippi, Nina Kossman, Dorothea Osborn and Sparrow.
Best hours to view this exhibition are 3-6 PM Tuesday-Saturday.
The opening celebration will be on Saturday, March 2 from 5-7 PM. Please join these five unique artists.
About Nina Kossman
Ideas for paintings come to me when I when I’m in a forest. When I’m one on one with nature, I become a participant in and a spectator of nature’s cycle of life and death. My paintings are inspired by traces of what’s visible to us of life begun long ago. My art is about participation: participation in nature and in nature’s creativity. Many of my paintings evoke images of creatures whose outlines were “there”–in the world of nature– long before I came along. Nature knows more about art than man; its art is more urgent, and in nature the dividing line between art and life is absent. The first step of my work, in painting as well as in root sculptures, is to find the eye of the creature: eyes give soul to these pieces and convey to the viewer that they’re observing us even as we’re watching them.
Previous Exhibitions Nina Kossman at Green Kill
The exhibition at Green Kill of Nina Kossman on Saturday, December 1, from 5 to 9.
There will be a special performance at the reception by Line Eldi of the band Line on Some Trip (L.O.S.T.) at 6:30 pm for 30 minutes. The exhibition is on view from December 1 to 29, 2018. Best viewing hours are Tuesday-Saturday 3-6 PM. Green Kill hours are Tuesday-Saturday, 3-9 PM
Nina Kossman believes that her paintings spring from a deep layer of the subconscious, and it is the connection, through her paintings, to the deepest subconscious, that helps her survive.
Moscow born, Nina Kossman is a painter, sculptor, bilingual writer, poet, and playwright. Her paintings and sculptures have been exhibited in Moscow and New York. She is the author of two books of poems in Russian as well as the translator of two volumes of Marina Tsvetaeva’s poems, In the Inmost Hour of the Soul and Poem of the End. Her other books include Behind the Border (HarperCollins,1994), a collection of stories about her Moscow childhood; Gods and Mortals: Modern Poems on Classical Myths (Oxford University Press, 2001); Pereboi, a collection of Russian poems published in Moscow; a bilingual edition of her poems published in the US, and a novel. Her translations of Russian poetry have been anthologized in Twentieth Century Russian Poetry (Doubleday, 1993), The Gospels in Our Image (Harcourt Brace, 1995), The World Treasury of Poetry (Norton, 1998), and Divine Inspiration (Oxford University Press, 1998). Her Russian short stories and poems have been published in Russian literary magazines in and outside of Russia. Her English poems and short stories have been published in a wide spectrum of American and Canadian literary magazines, e.g. Tin House, The Columbia Journal, The Threepenny Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Columbia, Confrontation, etc., and have been translated into several languages, including Japanese, Dutch, and Greek. Two of her plays have been produced off-off Broadway. One of her plays was included in Best Women Playwrights 2000. She received a UNESCO/PEN Short Story Award, an NEA fellowship, and grants from Foundation for Hellenic Culture, the Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, and Fundacion Valparaiso. She lives in New York.