Friday, October 29, 2021

Artist of the Day, October 29, 2021: Nick Farhi, an American emerging painter (#1404)

 Nick Farhi (1987) is an American Postwar & Contemporary emerging painter. His work was featured in numerous exhibitions at key galleries and museums, including the Thierry Goldberg Gallery and the Mana Contemporary Jersey City. Nick Farhi's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from $981 USD to $6,000 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2015 the record price for this artist at auction is $6,000 USD for Hug, sold at Phillips New York in 2017. The most recent article is Small Objects and Ornaments Are Illuminated in the Work of Painter Nick Farhi written by Ayla Angelos for the It’s Nice That in January 2021.

Nick Farhi’s gestural paintings and representational works use vivid colors and a naive style to stretch from the everyday to the sublime. At times they evoke friendship, as in Hug, and at other times romance, as in the sublime outer-space skies of Fell in Love / Galactic Memory Number 3. His minimal drum paintings make novel use of the instrument’s skin as a circular canvas with gray scuffs, while worn, indented brass cymbals are also mounted as wall works. With its enduring faith in Romanticism, Farhi’s output possesses an exaggerated sense of innocence that is both charming and sophisticated.

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 Nick Farhi

 Watchdog (night), 2018

Alms Jars at Rest, 2019

Blank Frosted Vessel, 2019

Caped heroine, 2019

London Pug (seated), 2019

Multiplicity (in a blanket), 2019

Pony (kindness), 2019

Roadside Companion´s Companion, 2019

Rouge (honey), 2019

 Settles in, Reads, Sleeps, 2019

 Small Town Girl, 2019

Chrome Road Rocky Road, 2020

Coalesce (in the fall), 2020

Democracy and Equality Should Never Be Fragile, 2020

Electric, lady, land, 2020

Homes that Morph, 2020

Marla and Rhoda´s Place (yarn garage), 2020

Melon Chimney Belly, 2020

Stem Research (Blue Cups), 2020

Violist´s Lunch, 2020

  Pistachio Tavern, 2020-21

Bread Gone Until it´s Warmer, 2021

Raspberry, 2021

Salt, sugar, pepper (fabric lab), 2021

Xylophone (Harp Avenue), 2021

 

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