Born in Grand Island, Nebraska (b. 1947)

Dona Nelson

Crow’s Quarters, 2019

Acrylic, graphite, and remnants of cheesecloth on canvas, with steel stand
© Dona Nelson; courtesy of the artist and the Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, and Michael Benevento Gallery, Los Angeles. Photo by Ian Reeves.

Dona Nelson. Courtesy of Locks Gallery.

“I am very interested in that place of incoherence in which the image is nearly obliterated by the physical reality of paint... It’s a referencing of very brief moments of disconnect — those once-in-a-whiles when you hear a word as just sound or an image starts to migrate to a pure material reading.”

—Dona Nelson