Nathaniel Mary Quinn
Nathaniel Mary Quinn is an American painter known for his collage-style composite portraits that feature disfigured faces.[1][2]
Early life
Quinn was born in Chicago, where he grew up in the Robert Taylor Homes on the South Side.[3][4] In his ninth grade of high school, he was awarded a scholarship to attend the Culver Military Academy in Indiana.[3][5] While he was at Culver, his mother, Mary, died. He later legally adopted the middle name Mary in her memory, so her name would appear on his degree.[6]
Career
In 2013, Quinn made his first major hit painting, Charles. It was the first he made with his distinct collage-inspired style. The painting was based on five photographs, which produced an amalgamation resembling the smirk of his long-lost brother, Charles.[7]
The artwork was shown in a home-based art salon run by the mother of one of his students. It caught the attention of the executive director of the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts in Brooklyn, who displayed it in the museum's window.[6]
In 2014, Quinn held his first solo show at Pace Gallery in London.[5]
During the fall of 2018, Quinn's work was included in a group show at The Drawing Center.[8] His first solo museum exhibition, This Is Life, was presented at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Wisconsin, from December 2018 to March 2019.[9]
His work is included in the collection of the Pérez Art Museum Miami,[10][11] Whitney Museum of American Art,[12] the Hammer Museum,[13] the MOCA,[14] and the Art Institute of Chicago.[15]
References
- ↑ Frank, Priscilla (September 9, 2014). "Disfigured Portraits That Would Make Even Francis Bacon Shudder". HuffPost.
- ↑ Ollman, Leah (June 6, 2018). "Like song sampling as painting: Nathaniel Mary Quinn's puzzle-like portraits of personhood". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on May 11, 2019. Retrieved June 7, 2019.
- 1 2 Morris, C. Zawadi (December 16, 2014). "The Amazing Story of Nathaniel Mary Quinn and the Day he Decided..." Archived from the original on June 6, 2019. Retrieved June 7, 2019.
- ↑ Scott, Andrea K. (September 15, 2018). "Nathaniel Mary Quinn's Cubist Portraits Address the Psychic Ruptures of Gentrification in Brooklyn". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on May 17, 2019. Retrieved June 7, 2019 – via www.newyorker.com.
- 1 2 "Nathaniel Mary Quinn: Artist who grew up in Chicago poverty chooses". The Independent. September 4, 2014. Archived from the original on June 6, 2019. Retrieved June 7, 2019.
- 1 2 "Nathaniel Mary Quinn". Gagosian. April 2019.
- ↑ Irwin, Michael. "Nathaniel Mary Quinn". Ocula.
- ↑ "The Drawing Center | New York, NY | Exhibitions | Upcoming | For Opacity". www.drawingcenter.org. Archived from the original on August 29, 2019. Retrieved August 21, 2019.
- ↑ Journal, Robyn Norton | Wisconsin State (January 6, 2019). "On View: 'Nathaniel Mary Quinn: This is Life'". AP NEWS. Archived from the original on August 21, 2019. Retrieved August 21, 2019.
- ↑ perezartmuseummiami (August 24, 2021). "See Major Works That Pérez Art Museum Miami Has Added to Its Collection". pammportraits.org. Retrieved March 7, 2023.
- ↑ "Pérez Art Museum Miami Announces New Acquisitions by Thirteen Artists for Permanent Collection • Pérez Art Museum Miami". Pérez Art Museum Miami. Retrieved March 7, 2023.
- ↑ "Class of 92". whitney.org. Archived from the original on June 6, 2019. Retrieved June 7, 2019.
- ↑ "Dirty Protest: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection - Hammer Museum". The Hammer Museum. January 24, 2019. Archived from the original on June 6, 2019. Retrieved June 7, 2019.
- ↑ "Nathaniel Mary Quinn". www.moca.org. Retrieved April 22, 2020.
- ↑ "Nathaniel Mary Quinn". The Art Institute of Chicago. 1977. Archived from the original on June 6, 2019. Retrieved June 7, 2019.
- ↑ Russeth, Andrew (April 4, 2019). "Gagosian Now Represents Nathaniel Mary Quinn". ARTnews. Archived from the original on August 20, 2019. Retrieved August 21, 2019.