MutualArt - USA

UTA Artist Space is pleased to announce a new exhibition from rising young abstract expressionist painter Nicholas Kontaxis.

Catch Me will be the most ambitious solo exhibition of Nicholas’ career to date, featuring an expansive collection of never-before-seen paintings created over the last two years that showcase Nicholas’ stylistic evolution and artistic maturation. While these last two years were primarily defined by restrictions and confinements, Catch Me captures a spirit of freedom and experimentation.

The 26-year-old artist uses a battalion of unique idiosyncratic techniques with a variety of media on massive canvases, rendering vibrantly colored works of art brut that ring with joy and optimism. The paintings have a sublime, contemplative affect created by Nicholas’ meticulous attention to pattern, texture and color. Presented on expansive canvases of varying materials, this structured chaos lends itself a hypnotic, visceral, uplifting experience in viewers.

Instinctively drawn to painting, the medium has provided Nicholas a conduit for expressing his notably distinct interior life. The artist was born with a brain tumor that has resulted in thousands of seizures over his lifetime, atypical motor function, and neurodiversity. His speech consists of short utterances, which often become the imaginative titles for his works and are documented while he paints: Hear the Rain, Got Issues, and Just One More Time, to name a few.