To say Nina Chanel Abney’s paintings are bold is an understatement. Abney’s works are clearly primed and layered by issues of race, sex pop culture, religion and politics with influences from animation, Matisse, Romare Bearden and Jacob Lawrence.
“Nina Chanel Abney: Royal Flush” exhibition will be on view at the Nasher until July 16, then travel to the Chicago Cultural Center and then to Los Angeles, where it will be jointly presented by the Institute of Contemporary Art and the California African American Museum.