Selected works of  Nina Kossman will be on exhibition at Green Kill from March 2 , 2019 until March 30, 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

Nina Kossman, “St. Francis Feeding Birds of the Air”, Acrylic on canvas, $200.

Nina Kossman, “King Minos Can’t Find His Way Home in Today’s Creteo”, Acrylic on canvas, $200.

3 Nina Kossman, “Fight with the Last Head of Zmei Gorynych (a Russian legend)”, Acrylic on canvas, $200.

4 Nina Kossman, “Every Village Has Its Idol”, Acrylic on canvas, $200.

Nina Kossman, “Pilgrims”, Acrylic on canvas, $200.

Nina Kossman, “Eos on the Morning of the Eclipse”, Acrylic on canvas, $200.

Nina Kossman, “The Return of Puss in Boots”, Acrylic on canvas, $200.

Nina Kossman, “Man Brings Death to Beasts of the World”, Acrylic on canvas, $200.

Nina Kossman, “Adam and Eve Cooking their First Meal Together”, Acrylic on canvas, $200.

Nina Kossman, “Gideon and the Angel”, Acrylic on canvas, $200.

Nina Kossman, “A Girl Lights Up a Pioneer Bonfire and Simultaneously Brushes a Sick Bird’s Teeth”, Acrylic on canvas, $200.

Nina Kossman, “The First Quarrel of Adam and Eve”, Acrylic on canvas, $200.

Nina Kossman, “Dark Angel”, Acrylic on canvas, $200.

Nina Kossman, “When the Wind rose on the pyramid, people thought he was a god. When he ran across the plain, they called him boy.”, Acrylic on canvas, $200.

Nina Kossman, “Drunken Pan ( Sculpture)”,Varnish and paint on found wood, $200.

Nina Kossman, “A Quarreling Couple (Sculpture)”, Varnish and paint on found wood, $200.


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, “The Rock Shall Not Be Moved”,  Acrylic on canvas, $200

Nina Kossman, “A Preoccupied Visier”, Acrylic on canvas, $200

Nina Kossman, “Raven King Interrogates the Soul of the Secretly Departed”, 2015, Acrylic on canvas,

Nina Kossman, “Lord of the Flies and His Faithful Servant”, 2017,  Acrylic on canvas, $200

Nina Kossman, “Wise Old Man Listens to the Birds”, 2017,  Acrylic on canvas, $200

Nina Kossman, “Europa Refuses Zeus in the Shape of a Bull”, 2016, Acrylic on canvas, $200

Nina Kossman, “The Soul Shall Be Consoled with an Orange”,  Acrylic on canvas, $200

Nina Kossman, “Running Away from Big Blood”, 2017  Acrylic on canvas, $200

Nina Kossman, “The Chtonic Gods”, 2017, Acrylic on canvas, $200

Nina Kossman, “Birth of a Witch Baby”, 2016, Acrylic on canvas, $880

Nina Kossman, “Doctor Aibolit and His Animal Patients”, 2017  Acrylic and oil on canvas, $200

Nina Kossman, “Rendezvous of Gnomes”, 2016 Acrylic on canvas,$200

Nina Kossman, “Centaur Suffering from a Headache”,  2016,  Acrylic on canvas, $200

Nina Kossman, “Broken Streets”, 2016 Acrylic on canvas, $200

Nina Kossman, “Tale of a Sad Fox”, 2017, Acrylic on canvas, $200

Nina Kossman, “Embrace the Animal in Yourself”,  2017, Acrylic on canvas, $200

Nina Kossman, “The Return of the Prodigal Daughter, 2016, Acrylic on canvas, $200

Nina Kossman, “A Man Who Loved Birds”,  Acrylic on canvas, $200

Nina Kossman,She Turned Me into a Bat”, 2017, Acrylic on canvas, $200

Nina Kossman, “When a Friend Has a Friend for Dinner”, 2018, Acrylic on canvas, $200

Nina Kossman, “The First Olympic Games”,  Acrylic on canvas, $200

Nina Kossman, “Angel of Renunciation”, 2017, Acrylic on canvas, $200

Nina Kossman, “Helen’s Shadow”,  2016, Oil on canvas, $800

Nina Kossman, “A Repentant Minotaur”,  Acrylic on canvas, $200

Nina Kossman, “Jonah’s Visions in the Belly of the Great Fish”, 2018,  Acrylic on canvas, $200

Nina Kossman, “Saturn Disgorging His Children”, 2015, Acrylic on canvas, $200

Nina Kossman, “”Let me Tell You Something, Kid”, 2018  Acrylic on canvas, $200

Nina Kossman, “The Birth of Mercury”, 2016, Acrylic on canvas, $200

Nina Kossman, “A Dubious Blessing”, 2015, Acrylic on canvas, $200

Nina Kossman, “Mars”, 2015 Acrylic on canvas, $200

Nina Kossman, “Secret in the Night”, 2015 Acrylic on canvas, $200

Nina Kossman, “The Age of Sleeping Titans”,  Acrylic on canvas, $200

Nina Kossman, “Too Late to Beg for Inspiration”, 20127  Acrylic on canvas, $200

Nina Kossman, “Metamorphosis of the Horse”,  Acrylic on canvas, $200

Nina Kossman, “Ismul, the Warrior Boy”,  2017, Acrylic on canvas, $200

Nina Kossman, “Redroom, Redroom”, 2016, Acrylic on canvas, $200

Nina Kossman, “Zeus and Bellerophon Question Sickly Pegasus”, 2015, Acrylic on canvas, $200

Nina Kossman, “Removal from the Cross”, Acrylic on canvas, $200

Nina Kossman, “Rape of Europa”,  2026 Acrylic on canvas, $200

Nina Kossman, “Tale of the Golden Cockerel”, 2016, Acrylic on canvas, $200

Nina Kossman, “The One Who is Born Like a Horse for Running”, 2017, Acrylic on canvas, $200

Nina Kossman, “Noah Coming out of the Ark”, 2015 Acrylic on canvas, $200

Nina Kossman, “His Majesty’s Will”, 2018, Acrylic on canvas, $200v

Nina Kossman, “Fish Catcher and the Not-so-golden Fish”, 2015, Acrylic on canvas,$200

Nina Kossman, “Mistress of the Copper Mountain”, 2017, Acrylic on canvas, $200

Nina Kossman, “Do Not Bite the Hand that Feeds You”, 2017 Acrylic and oil on canvas, $200

Nina Kossman, “Execution of a Freethinker”, 2016,  Oil on canvas, $800

Nina Kossman, “The Giant and the Bird”, 2017, Acrylic on canvas, $200

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.