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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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Installation view of Nina Chanel Abney: Royal Flush
Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. September 23, 2018–January 20, 2019
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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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Active Published
67 No Wrong Holes:
Thirty Years of Nayland Blake
2019-09-29 2020-01-26
NB-Equipment
3:54pm Jan 18, 2019 Page
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63 Patty Chang:
The Wandering Lake, 2009–2017
2019-03-17 2019-08-03
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10:32am Dec 18, 2018 Page
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19 Maryam Jafri:
I Drank the Kool-Aid But I Didn’t Inhale
2019-02-10 2019-06-30
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8:46am Feb 11, 2019 Page
Active Published
64 Lucas Blalock:
An Enormous Oar
2019-02-10 2019-07-21
Unspecified
8:43am Feb 11, 2019 Page
Active Published
62 Adrian Piper
What It’s Like, What It Is #3
2018-10-07 2019-01-06
1991 what its like 3
4:54pm Nov 15, 2018 Page
Active Published
61 Agency of Assets:
Reality Augmented
2018-09-30 2019-01-06
Mitsylorez
1:41pm Nov 05, 2018 Page
Active Published
4 B. Wurtz:
This Has No Name
2018-09-30 2019-02-17
Wurtz install 05
1:31pm Feb 06, 2019 Page
Active Published
6 Nina Chanel Abney:
Royal Flush
2018-09-23 2019-01-20
Abney install 02
10:24am Jan 04, 2019 Page
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2 This Brush for Hire: Norm Laich & Many Other Artists 2018-06-03 2018-09-02
Brush for hire 14
5:25pm Sep 27, 2018 Page
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20 sisters and brothers 2018-04-22 2018-06-17
Brothers & sisters 02
1:27pm Oct 04, 2018 Page
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18 Rafa Esparza: de la Calle 2018-04-22 2018-07-15
Esparza5
6:11pm Jul 09, 2018 Page
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9 Grandfather: A Pioneer Like Us (1974) 2018-02-04 2018-04-22
Szeeman install 10
8:46am Apr 22, 2018 Page
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8 Skip Arnold: Truffle Hunt 2018-01-28 2018-04-08
Arnold install 11
5:01pm Sep 24, 2018 Page
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1 Martín Ramírez: His Life in Pictures, Another Interpretation 2017-09-09 2017-12-31
Ramirez install 02
1:25pm Oct 04, 2018 Page
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7 Abigail DeVille: No Space Hidden (Shelter) 2017-09-09 2018-01-14
Deville install 02
3:02pm Mar 07, 2018 Page
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5 Sarah Cain: Now I’m going to tell you everything 2017-09-09 2018-03-11
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4:23pm Jun 21, 2018 Page
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11 Moshe Ninio:
Rainbow:Rug
2015-01-17 2015-04-02
1
11:39pm Sep 22, 2017 Page
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10 Brian Weil, 1979–1995:
Being in the World
2015-01-17 2015-04-18
1
11:40pm Sep 22, 2017 Page
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12 Citizen Culture: Artists and Architects Shape Policy  2014-09-13 2014-12-13
1
11:38pm Sep 22, 2017 Page
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13 Anri Sala: Dammi i Colori  2014-09-12 2014-11-08
1
11:34pm Sep 22, 2017 Page
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14 Robert Swain: The Form of Color  2014-05-17 2014-08-23
1
4:59pm Mar 08, 2018 Page
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15 Nonfictions: Jeremiah Day/Simone Forti/Fred Dewey  2014-05-17 2014-08-23
3
11:38pm Sep 22, 2017 Page
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17 Xylor Jane: Sea Legs 2014-01-18 2014-04-05
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5:08pm Mar 08, 2018 Page
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16 Keltie Ferris: Doomsday Boogie 2014-01-17 2014-04-05
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5:07pm Mar 08, 2018 Page
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