• Cúpula
  • Cúpula
  • Colorful abstract art piece with vibrant colors on a white background
  • Cúpula
  • Living room with a sofa, colorful abstract painting, and decorative wall art.

    Nora Maité Nieves

    Cúpula

    Regular price $7,500.00

    Cúpula, 2021

    Acrylic, Flashe, coarse modeling paste, metallic silver paint, and woodless color, pencil frottage on canvas
    25 x 22 x 1.5 in (64 x 56 x 4 cm)

    Unframed

    Notes of: midnight tent, confetti held in velvet, the grid beneath the ceremony, foil edges, heat from a crowd, a gathering you weren't invited to but can hear

    Artwork rendered in the party pavilion of a thermal spa in Emilia-Romagna designed by architect and engineer Diego Corsani. Photography by Giulio Ghirardi.

    Nieves’ practice stems from urban architecture, inspired by her native caribbean landscape. A modernist decorative concrete block commonly seen in Puerto Rico is a recurring motif that emotes personal memories. In this new body of work, Nieves’ takes inspiration from daily walks in the city, evoking the cacophony of architectural forms, designs and textures that make up an urbanscape. The stacked verticality of the works instigate new meaning, suggesting personal
    narratives while becoming an archive of Nieves’s painterly language. Their totemic presence proposes a spiritual emblem while also relating to the figure. These painted and textured sculptural bodies include Nieves architectural rubbings of various surfaces to form unique patterns that speak to the artist’s action and physical presence within the work.
    Nora Maité Nieves (b. 1980 San Juan, Puerto Rico) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She received her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2010, and her BFA from La Escuela de Artes Plásticas, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 2004.