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Workin'... well slowly, and possibly surely.

GALLERY REPRESENTATION –

LMAK Gallery, New York, NY

Hans Alf Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

LIMITED EDITION BOOK

LIMITED EDITION BOOK
Palimpsest II: Apostles, Prophets & Messiahs
watercolors
Russell Nachman

A Book Edition of 150 (signed & numbered by artist)
8" x 10", portrait size, hardbound
48 pages
17 full page, color plates
Contact LMAK Gallery for purchase

PROCESS
“...the almost boundless freedom of an art that faces its own end.”
– Adriano Mariuz on G. Domenico Tiepolo

CREDO
"The only worthwhile landscape is the human face!"
– Klaus Kinski

EXPOSITION
The Everyman, in all his glory, finds his latest reincarnation as a harlequin of Black Metal.

The Artist

The Artist

Recent Shows

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2017 Drunks, Prophets & pieces of Shit, Hans Alf Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2016 Lenz, LMAK Projects, New York, NY
2014 Acedia: Dead Danes, Paul Loya Gallery, LA, CA
2013 Prayer Book For a Drunk Noah, Hans Alf Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2013 Palimpsest III, LMAK Projects, New York, NY
2011 Palimpsest II, LMAK Projects, New York, NY
2008 Deep in the Forest, Freight & Volume, New York, NY
2006 Paradise, Sixspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Trad, Gras och Stenar, Jack the Pelican, Brooklyn, NY

MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS

2016 Sneakyville, curated by Sverre Malling, Haugar Museum, Tønsberg, Norway
2009 Painting the Glass House, curated by J Hough & M Ramírez-Montagut,, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
2008 Painting the Glass House, curated by J Hough & M Ramírez-Montagut, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2014 Drawing Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2014 Anomie: Fractured Art Norms, Dowd Gallery, Cortland, NY
2014 Portraits of God, Hans Alf Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2013 LMAK Projects Presents, pop-up location, Maastricht, The Netherlands
2013 Hit the Lights, Paul Loya Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Dual Show with Anders Meisner, Hans Alf Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2010 Album Cover, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2010 Third Annual Works on Paper, Nancy Margolis Gallery, NY, NY
2009 Heavier Than A Death In The Family, NY, NY
2009 Until My Darkness Goes, LMAK Gallery, NY, NY
2009 X, Mixedgreens Gallery, NY, NY
2008 The Boys Are Back In Town, curated by Wes Lang, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2008 15th Anniversary Exhibition, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
2008 Boys of Summer, Moniquemeloche Gallery, Chicago, IL
2008 The Boys Are Back In Town, curated by Wes Lang, Sam Romo Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2007 Rear/View, curated by Eric Shiner, Freight & Volume, New York, NY
2007 Deep End, curated by Alix Sloan, Aidan Savoy Gallery, New York NY
2007 We Are Near, curated by Eddie Martinez, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, MA
2006 Psycho Ideology, Roebling Hall, New York, NY
2006 Cusp, curated by Steven Stewart, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
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Russell Nachman
Brooklyn, New York, United States
Paintin' & Drawin'
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russellnachman@gmail.com

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LINKS

  • LMAK Projects
  • Paul Loya Gallery
  • Hans Alf Gallery
  • Marianne Friis Gallery
  • Kirk Nachman
  • Per Billgren
  • John Copeland
  • Wes Lang
  • Javier Piñón
  • Sam Vaughan
  • Cocaine & Abel
  • Golden Handcuffs

"Skepticism, as a disposition, arises from desire, not contempt." – Anon.









THE NEW WAY

“…Something in my mind shifted to the other extreme, suggesting infinitely dimensioned space ...but then, it was all a metaphor of desperation. Truly and simply, I did not understand anything about it. I had only a growing feeling – pattern-conditioned? Instinctive? – that I had to pass through this maze to gain the new degree of power that I sought.”
 – Roger Zelazny's Amber Chronicles [paraphrased]



STATEMENT

A meditation on the waning days of western metaphysics via the art-historical trope of the harlequin—this time re-imagined as a Black Metal-music reveler. These are corpse painted figures imbibing in a bacchanal of alcohol and religious euphoria. They are the Freudian Id, loosed and drunk with a mal-appropriated spirituality.

Using structures of iconic, Christian painting and the illuminated manuscript, the work endeavors to create a confluence of reverence and irreverence. These paintings strive to depict a desire for meaning, faced with the fear that meaning has ultimately receded in our world.

Think of it as a gnostic conversation (albeit a drunken conversation) ...an "after party" of civilization's metaphysical/religious beliefs.

Or, perhaps Kabuki theatre; masks dancing an inebriated prayer.

Cheers to us all!

Russell

The Old Horse!

The Old Horse!


"The idea of the divine is connected
to the creative process.
I find it very difficult to
distinguish between the two."
— Nick Cave

Tiepolo, Punchinello

Tiepolo, Punchinello