{"id":33050,"date":"2016-04-04T12:39:02","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T18:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=33050"},"modified":"2019-11-18T17:01:04","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T23:01:04","slug":"visual-splendor-nina-tichava-at-gallery-mar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/visual-splendor-nina-tichava-at-gallery-mar\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Splendor: Nina Tichava at Gallery MAR"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nina Tichava\u2019s mixed-media paintings, now on exhibit at Park City\u2019s Gallery MAR, are so easy to look at, so enticing to the hungry eye, that one might dismiss them too easily as mere eye candy, as inconsequential props in an interior designer\u2019s stage set. And they are sweet to the first taste, seductive to the visual touch; but these large abstract canvases are also intricate and layered, providing ample complexity to the sustained gaze and nuances of flavor for the sophisticated visual palate.<\/p>\n

Tichava is from Santa Fe, where she grew up in the home of what she describes as \u201chippie parents,\u201d where weaving, beading and mixing paints was part of her upbringing. She went to art school with the intention of becoming a graphic designer, but was diverted when she took a painting class and fell in love with the \u201cromance of it.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0The titles of her work, like \u201cLove is the whole thing\u201d and \u201cThe night was busy making the moon,\u201d betray that romanticism, and Tichava creates works that unabashedly explore visual splendor.<\/p>\n