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Nabil Nahas born 18 September1949 in Beirut, Lebanonis a Lebanese artist and painterliving in New York.BiographyNabil grew up in Cairo and Beirut,before moving to the United Statesfor college to study at LouisianaState University. He is the youngerbrother of the Lebanese/Brazilianbusinessman Naji Nahas.He earned a BFA in 1971 and anMFA from Yale University in 1973.Encounters with contemporarypainters at Yale influencedNahas to move to New York aftergraduationPainting careerHe exhibited regularly at importantNew York galleries and receivedcritical acclaim for his work. Usuallyworking "in" an abstract idiom,Nahas repeatedly reinventedhimself.Nahas’ paintings have made use ofgeometric motifs and decorativepatterns inspired Levantine artarchitecture. Nahas also employstraditional Western abstractpainting, pointillistic andimpressionistic techniques.Sometimes he combines thesetraditions in brightly coloredpaintings, suggestive of therichness of nature and of theimagination. One of Nahas’ motifsis starfish, sometimes cast in acrylicpaint, on top of which he layeredhigh-chroma acrylic paint.In his most recent work, Nahasintroduced recognizable Lebanesecedar, pine and olive trees in hismost direct references yet to hisnative land. In 2018, Nahas wascommissioned to produce a cedarpainting to be featured on a newstamp in Lebanon.
Solo Exhibitions1973 Yale University, Connecticut1977 Ohio State University, Ohio1978 Robert Miller Gallery, New York1979 Robert Miller Gallery, New York1980 Robert Miller Gallery, New York1987 Holly Solomon Gallery, New York1988 Galerie Montenay, Paris1988 Holly Solomon Gallery, New York1994 Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, Colorado1997 Sperone Westwater, New York1998 Baumgartner Galleries, Washington, DC1998 Milleventi, Milan1999 Sperone Westwater, New York2002 25th Bienal De São Paulo2002 J. Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville Beach, Florida2005 Galerie Xippas, Paris2005 Sperone Westwater, New York2009 Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany2010 FIAF Gallery, New York2010 Beirut Exhibition Center (BEC), Beirut, Lebanon2011 Lawrie Shabibi Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates2011 Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, England2013 Sperone Westwater2013 Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai, UAE2014 Ben Brown Fine Arts, London2016 Saleh Barakat Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon2019 Saleh Barakat Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
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Nabil Nahas born 18 September
1949 in Beirut, Lebanon
is a Lebanese artist and painter
living in New York.
Biography
Nabil grew up in Cairo and Beirut,
before moving to the United States
for college to study at Louisiana
State University. He is the younger
brother of the Lebanese/Brazilian
businessman Naji Nahas.
He earned a BFA in 1971 and an
MFA from Yale University in 1973.
Encounters with contemporary
painters at Yale influenced
Nahas to move to New York after
graduation
Painting career
He exhibited regularly at important
New York galleries and received
critical acclaim for his work. Usually
working "in" an abstract idiom,
Nahas repeatedly reinvented
himself.
Nahas’ paintings have made use of
geometric motifs and decorative
patterns inspired Levantine art
architecture. Nahas also employs
traditional Western abstract
painting, pointillistic and
impressionistic techniques.
Sometimes he combines these
traditions in brightly colored
paintings, suggestive of the
richness of nature and of the
imagination. One of Nahas’ motifs
is starfish, sometimes cast in acrylic
paint, on top of which he layered
high-chroma acrylic paint.
In his most recent work, Nahas
introduced recognizable Lebanese
cedar, pine and olive trees in his
most direct references yet to his
native land. In 2018, Nahas was
commissioned to produce a cedar
painting to be featured on a new
stamp in Lebanon.
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