Nathlie Provosty (born 1981 in

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. She earned her bachelor's degree in Fine Arts at

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Institute College of Art in 2004. The year after graduation from college, Provosty received a

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in painting, and spent a year in

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. In 2007, She earned her Master's degree in Fine Arts at

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. In 2013, Provosty created an artwork for an album named Aheym by the musician

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. In 2014, she collaborated with the poet Robert Kelly and create a group of paintings for Kelly's book ''The Color Mill''. Provosty was the recipient of the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for Painting in 2012. In 2012, Provosty had her first one-person exhibition at "1:1", an experimental artist-run gallery in New York. Her first exhibition in a commercial gallery was held at Nathalie Karg Gallery in New York in 2016. Her work is in the collection of the

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the

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, and

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Painting style

Provosty is well-known for her oil painting on

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. By using monochromatic shades of color, she often creates schemes that appear aesthetically simple but contain depths of field. She often applies colors in glossy and matte finishes of paint to highlight this effect, which helps to draw viewers into and across the works’ layers. Provosty also utilizes various media in her works. In the 2016 exhibition at Nathalie Karg Gallery in New York, Provosty created an expanded multi-sensory experience by manipulating colors at the far reach of the spectrum and the surfaces that vibrate and disappear.

Exhibitions

Provosty's paintings have been exhibited all over the world, including

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, Colby Museum of Art, the Farnsworth Museum, and the

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Solo exhibitions

* 2018–2019, Museo del Risorgimento,

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, Italy * 2018, ''Slow Time'', Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York * 2016, Bischoff Projects,

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, Germany * 2016, ''The Third Ear'', Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York * 2015, Jablonka Maruani Mercier Gallery Project Space,

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, Belgium

Group exhibitions

* 2018, Kunsthall Stavanger, Norway * 2017, ''Visionary Painting: Curated by Alex Katz'', the Colby Museum of Art, Maine * 2017, the Washington University Museum, Washington, D.C. * 2016, ''A Way of Living'', A Palazzo Gallery in

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, Italy

References

External links

Carrie Moyer and the Recent Past Anna Leonhardt, R. J. Messineo, and Nathlie Provosty
Haberarts * Alex Bacon
Nathlie Provosty’s New Paintings
The Miami Rail {{DEFAULTSORT:Provosty, Nathlie 1981 births Living people 21st-century American women artists American realist painters American contemporary painters