Nina Elder

Exhaust
May 20 – June 30

Abstract painting by Nina Elder depicting stylized land and water forms in a pastel color palette, with outlines resembling a map overlaying serene scenery.
Illustrative artwork by Nina Elder depicting an industrial landscape with silhouettes of factories and smokestacks against a pastel sunset, featuring distinct shades of orange and teal.
An abstract painting by Nina Elder features a factory with tall smokestacks emitting smoke against a dark green sky. The industrial buildings are simplified with geometric shapes in shades of beige and blue. The composition is divided into three vertical sections.
Illustration by Nina Elder depicting a dark blue factory with various building structures emitting white smoke against a teal background, symbolizing industrial pollution.
A stylized painting by Nina Elder of an industrial structure with tanks and pipelines in cool blue and white tones, set against a muted blue sky with a splash of yellow above, resembling a flame or smoke.
An abstract painting by Nina Elder depicts an industrial landscape with large cylindrical silos and rectangular buildings. The background features a jagged, bright yellow shape cutting through muted tones of brown, green, and grey, suggesting an industrial atmosphere.

Press Release

Richard Levy Gallery is pleased to present Exhaust, an exhibition of recent paintings by Albuquerque artist Nina Elder. Rendering sites of modernist production – factories, plants, and other industrial structures located throughout New Mexico and Colorado, the artist points to issues of consumerism, the exhaustion of the industrial capitalism, and the impossible sustainability of the modernist machine. Pipes, smokestacks, ducts, and conveyor belts emerge as planes of flat, unreasonably artificial color nestled into horizons of typical southwestern landscape. These buildings are machines on a gigantic level. The machines are still and oddly silent with smoke and exhaust as our only reminders of time and motion. Exhaust refers not only to the smoke billowing into the environment as a result of industrial production, but also nods to the exhaustion of the industrial age.

Nina Elder was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She is a graduate of the University of New Mexico, and has participated in a number of exhibitions in the Albuquerque area. 

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Dates: May 20–June 30, 2006
Reception: May 19th, 6–8 pm
Hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 11 am–4 pm
Location: 514 Central Avenue SW, Albuquerque, NM 87102
Contact: 505.766.9888, info@levygallery.com, www.levygallery.com @levygallery