Angélique Nagovskaya
Angélique’s new series of maze-like augmented scapes symbolize the limited nature of human perspective - how we can become entangled in the world of senses and desires, losing our way, taking the “wrong” path. The disorienting turns represent times when we feel lost and desperate, our inability to see the full picture or our connectedness to each other. Yet, if we traverse patiently, the portals suggest it may be in those bewildered moments that we paradoxically become open to insight.
Though the passageways may confound our usual composure, like any labyrinth, Nagovskaya’s works all lead to a hopeful center if we persevere. For in confronting the uncertainty inside the canvas maze, we must reckon with the liminality inside the soul’s maze. Angelique’s emotive landscapes hold up a mirror to the unpredictable topography within us all, evoking nostalgia for some forgotten but innate inner wisdom. The crisscrossing paths earningly offer an opportunity - the promise that in our bewilderment, the chance for wisdom awaits if we but stay the winding course.
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B. 1998 in Montreal, CA
Education
2023 MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London
2022 BFA Fine Art, Cornell University, NY
2022 BA Art History, Cornell University, NY
Group Exhibitions
2024 Apocalyptic Changes of State, BWG Gallery, London
2023 Now 2023, Gerald Moore Gallery, London
2023 The Road to Excess, Safehouse 2, London
2023 RCA Graduate Show, Royal College of Art, London
2022 Cornell Graduate Show, Olive Tjaden Gallery, New York
2021 Summer Residency Show, The New York Academy of Art, New York
2021 Pre-Thesis Show, Herbert F.Johnson Museum of Art, New York
2020 BFA Spring Show, Herbert F.Johnson Museum of Art, New York
2019 BFA Spring Show, Olive Tjaden & Experimental Galleries, New York
2019 Cornell in Rome, Palazzo Santacroce; Rome, Italy
2018 Student Prints Exhibition, Herbert F. Johnson Museum, New York
2017 Art included during Grace Weber Performance, Human Rights First Gala
2017 NFAA National Winners Gallery, curated by Franklin Sirmans, Miami
2017 Maryland First Lady’s Spring Show, Annapolis
2016 Concourse Gallery, VisArts, MD
2016 The Yellow Barn Studio and Art Gallery, MD
2016 Gen Y 3.0 Exhibition, Kaplan Gallery, MD
2016 Congressional Art Exhibit, MD
2015 The Yellow Barn Studio and Art Gallery, MD
Awards / Residencies
2024 Colstoun Arts Residency, Scotland, UK
2021 New York Academy of Art Residency, NYAA, NYC
2019 The David R. Bean Prize in Fine Arts
2017 Visual Arts Finalist and Winner - National YoungArts Foundation, Miami
2017 Duke Ellington Award for Excellence in the Arts