TWO NEW PORTRAITS BY HUDSON VALLEY ARTIST NADINE ROBBINS HAVE BEEN SELECTED FOR EXHIBITION IN CHICAGO & BARCELONA THIS SPRING

FREAK OUT! Zhou B Arts Center, Chicago, IL April 15 – May 14, 2016

Featured image: Upside Down, oil on linen, 24″ x 24″ – Nadine Robbins

Nadine Robbins’ portrait Upside Down will be featured as part of the upcoming FREAK OUT! exhibition at Chicago’s Zhou B Arts Center. The show is curated by Poets & Artists‘ Didi Menendez with Sergio Gomez, Director of Exhibitions at the Zhou B. Art Center, & Director of Art NXT Level Projects, and expresses the boldness, liberation, individuality, coming of age and decadence of the ‘Disco’ era of the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Upside Down features the same model as Robbin’ recent portrait Lady Marmalade, which was the painting originally destined for Chicago before being purchased by a private collector at the artist’s Hallandale, FL winter solo show. Both portraits were inspired by Nadine’s favorite TV show of the era – Soul Train.

Works include visual arts in various mediums and styles including poetry, video, sculpture, and performance. The exhibition will take place in the 10,000 square foot second floor gallery of the Zhou B Art Center.

http://www.poetsandartists.com/

ModPortrait 2016 Galleria ArteLibre, Barcelona, Spain:April 27 – May 28, 2016 MEAM, Museum of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain:  June 3 – 19, 2016

Featured image: Sativa Sunrise, oil on linen, 24″ x 24″ – Nadine Robbins

Robbins’ Sativa Sunrise (shown above) was selected to be part of Spain’s 3rd Annual ModPortrait competition.

Mod Portrait is an international juried portrait painting contest, organized by Artelibre Gallery in collaboration with Spain’s MEAM Museum, and the Arts and Artists Foundation. Jurors included painter Richard Estes – one of the greatest exponents of American realism of the 70s,  painter and professor Zhaoming Wu – University of Fine Arts, San Francisco, and José Manuel Infiesta   – Director of MEAM.

The winning portraits, including Sativa Sunrise, will be exhibited twice. First in Barcelona at the Galleria ArteLibre’s Zaragoza Bantierra Room from 27 April to 28 May, then again at the MEAM exhibition at the Museum of Barcelona from 3 to 19 June, 2016.

http://www.modportrait.net/cuadros-seleccionados-2015/

Artist Bio Nadine Robbins is a contemporary realist painter, based in New York’s Hudson Valley, specializing in portraits and nudes. Embracing traditional techniques, but rejecting traditionally staged portraiture, Robbins’ work is infused with life, emotion, authenticity, and often humor. Her large portraits The Rolling Buns (2008) and Acacia and the Bowman (2009) were included in the Royal Society of Portrait Painters juried exhibitions in London, UK in both 2010 and 2011. Her double portrait The Golden Gown, was hailed by critic Keith Shaw as “the best nude oil painting I’ve seen in the Berkshires…Robbins is a superb figure painter, and her double portrait is an American masterpiece.” Huffington Post art critic, John Seed, chose Robbins’ Mrs. McDonald as one of his “Ten Memorable Paintings for 2013.” Seed praised the “sultry mood and unique beauty” of the image, and was then inspired to write a second article —  “An Alluring Woman with Fries” — dedicated to analyzing the painting more completely.  Several of Nadine’s portraits are part of the Howard A. & Judith Tullman Collection in Chicago, including Double Gulp a recent portrait of Howard Tullman, and Moxie. Robbins grew up in France, and has a BFA in Graphic Design from the State University of New York at New Paltz and Middlesex Polytechnic, London. http://nadinerobbinsart.com/