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Nina Chanel Abney:
Royal Flush

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Nina Chanel Abney: Royal Flush is the first solo museum exhibition of Chicago-born Nina Chanel Abney (b. 1982), and a ten year survey of the artist’s paintings, watercolors, and collages. Abney is at the forefront of a generation of artists that is unapologetically revitalizing narrative figurative painting, and as a skillful story-teller, she visually articulates the complex social dynamics of contemporary urban life. Her works are informed as much by mainstream news media as they are by animated cartoons, video games, hip-hop culture, celebrity websites, and tabloid magazines. She draws on these sources to make paintings replete with figures, numbers, and words that appear to have tumbled onto the canvas with the stream-of-consciousness immediacy of text messages, pop-up windows, a Twitter feed, or the scrolling headlines of an incessant 24-hour news cycle. By engaging loaded topics and controversial issues with irreverence, humor, and lampooning satire, Abney’s works are both pointed contemporary genre scenes as well as scathing commentaries on social attitudes and inequities.

In Los Angeles, the exhibition will be presented jointly by the Institute of Contemporary Art and the California African American Museum. The exhibition will then travel to its final venue, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York in spring 2019. Royal Flush is accompanied by a full-color catalogue, highlighting the most important and iconic works of the past 10 years by Nina Chanel Abney with essays by exhibition curator Marshall Price, Nancy Hanks Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; Jamillah James, Curator, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Natalie Y. Moore, Chicago Public Media, WBEZ; and Richard J. Powell, John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art and Art History at Duke University.

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‘Royal Flush’: Artist Nina Chanel Abney Debuts in Los Angeles at Two Museums
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‘People are sometimes mad at me’: behind Nina Chanel Abney’s provocative art

Organized by Marshall N. Price, Marshall N. Price, Nancy Hanks Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art for the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

The Los Angeles presentation of Nina Chanel Abney: Royal Flush is co-presented by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and the California African American Museum (CAAM), and is organized by Jamillah James, Curator, ICA LA and Naima J. Keith, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, California African American Museum.

Nina Chanel Abney: Royal Flush at ICA LA is made possible thanks to support from the Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley, Patricia A. Quick Charitable Trust, and Berry Stein.

Major support for ICA LA and CAAM’s co-presentation is provided by Friends of Nina Chanel Abney: Beth Rudin DeWoody, Kyle DeWoody, Bettina Korek, Sarah and Joel McHale, Marla and Jeffrey Michaels, and V. Joy Simmons, MD.

Additional support is provided by Jack Shainman Gallery.

Interview with Nina Chanel Abney on the occasion of Nina Chanel Abney: Royal Flush. Video courtesy the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University.
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Installation view of Nina Chanel Abney: Royal Flush
Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. September 23, 2018–January 20, 2019
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72 Sadie Barnette:
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70 Hervé Tullet: Ideal Exhibition 2019-07-14 2019-09-08
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71 Worldwide Orphans: Element of Play® 2019-07-14 2019-09-08
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68 Brognon-Rollin:
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63 Patty Chang:
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19 Maryam Jafri:
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64 Lucas Blalock:
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62 Adrian Piper
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61 Agency of Assets:
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4 B. Wurtz:
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6 Nina Chanel Abney:
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2 This Brush for Hire: Norm Laich & Many Other Artists 2018-06-03 2018-09-02
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20 sisters and brothers 2018-04-22 2018-06-17
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18 Rafa Esparza: de la Calle 2018-04-22 2018-07-15
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9 Grandfather: A Pioneer Like Us (1974) 2018-02-04 2018-04-22
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8 Skip Arnold: Truffle Hunt 2018-01-28 2018-04-08
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