Deep in my heart there’s a house that can hold almost all of you

The second floor exhibition, Deep in my heart there’s a house that can hold almost all of you, will feature recent works on paper and new wall drawings by Nina Bovasso. At once playful and fastidious, Bovasso’s images are constructed with an eye toward decorative ornament and rigorous abstraction that evoke influences as diverse as Philip Guston, 60s textile design, and Charles M. Schulz.  By merging large-scale works on paper with the museum’s surrounding architecture, Bovasso’s wall drawings extend her inclusive vision of  “turning a calm gesture into something heroic or elevating the hopeless toward the inspirational.”

Born in New York City in 1965, Nina Bovasso currently lives and works in New York City and Amsterdam, Netherlands. Recent solo exhibitions include Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam (2005); The Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (2005); Aliceday, Brussels, Belgium (2005); Perugi Artecontemporanea, Padova, Italy (2004); and Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco (2002). Her work is included in the Prague Biennale 2: Extended Painting, Prague, Czech Republic (2005). She received The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Art Award (2001), a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (2001), and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (2000).

Web Links:

http://www.ninabovasso.com/
http://www.mocacleveland.org/