Provenance:
Private Collection

ABOUT THE WORK

Justin Nuyda is an artist who is able to intelligibly translate his stylized subject visually with ease — an excellent display of his deft hand. This piece is part of Nuyda’s Mindscape series. It showcases the elements present in Nuyda’s earlier experimentations with abstraction. In this piece, one can see how Nuyda manages to combine both expression and form into a single masterpiece by his trademark use of nuanced layering and rendering. His work attempts to unearth the various images, ideas, and concepts that occupy our collective human consciousness. This particular oil on canvas piece offers us something beyond his usual visual elements of cascading light and technicolor palette. Obscuring Nuyda’s familiar landscape is a series of jagged and dark black lines. These unique additions streak across Nuyda’s more colorful and luminous properties, creating an inherent juxtaposition within Nuyda’s canon. The lines themselves are seemingly alien and unfamiliar; an effect that is reminiscent of the works of FrenchAmerican artist Loiuse Bourgeois. Despite this, Nuyda’s subversion and juxtaposition of his style still manages to communicate his practice’s underlying philosophy; one that manages to peel back the layers of the human mind.