Bob Nugent Ecos de Inhotim September 23rd – November 4th, 2017
Opening reception Saturday September 23rd, 2017 | 6-8pm The artist will be present
4107 Hillsboro Circle, Nashville, TN 37215 www.cumberlandgallery.com
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“[Nugent’s work] is more than a reality seen and instantly recognized, it is the essence of a reality felt and identified by our soul”. Preston Metcalf, The Essence of Reality: The Paintings of Bob Nugent, exhibition catalog, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California, 2007.
Jardim Inhotim #22, 2017, oil on linen, 72” x 72”
Cascata Flamante, 2017, oil on linen, 50” x 70”
Jardim Inhotim #11, 2017, oil on canvas, 36” x 48”
Jardim Inhotim #9, 2017, oil on linen, 48” x 36”
Jardim Inhotim #8, 2017, oil on linen, 48” x 36”
Jardim Inhotim #7, diptych, 2017, oil on linen, 30” x 48”
Camada Vital II, 2017, oil on canvas, 24” x 18”
Camada Vital IV, 2017, oil on canvas, 24” x 18”
Inhotim XXI, 2017, oil on linen, 20” x 16”
Inhotim XXII, 2017, oil on linen, 20” x 16”
Inhotim XXIV, 2017, oil on linen, 20” x 16”
Inhotim XXIX, 2017, oil on canvas, 24” x 18”
Inhotim XXX, 2017, oil on linen, 30” x 24”
Inhotim XXXI, 2017, oil on linen, 30” x 24”
Inhotim XXXIV, 2017, oil on linen, 24” x 24”
Standard 14, 2009, oak, 97” x 4 ¼” x 1 5/8”
Standard 16, 2009, oak, 94” x 5 ½” x 1 ½”
Standard 17, 2009, oak, 106” x 9” x 1 ¾”
Standard 26, 2009, spalted oak, 44 ¼“ x 7 1/8” x 1”
Standard 29, 2009, spalted oak, 37” x 6 ½“ x 1 ¼”
Flora Brasiliensis #119, 2008, watercolor, gouache, conte, ink on 1870 handmade paper, 19 ½ ” x 12 ½ ”
Flora Brasiliensis #184, 2016, watercolor, gouache, conte, ink on 1850 handmade paper, 19 ½ ” x 12 ½ ”
Flora Brasiliensis #195, 2016, watercolor, gouache, conte, pencil on 1850 handmade paper, 19” x 12 ½”
Field Study #4, 2016, watercolor, gouache, ink on paper, 20 ½” x 16 ½”
Field Study #5, 2016, watercolor, gouache, ink on paper, 20 ½” x 16 ½”
Minucia CXC, 2010, watercolor, gouache, conte, pencil on wood veneer, 19 ¾” x 16”
Minucia CLXXXVI, 2010, watercolor, gouache, conte, pencil on wood veneer, 11 ½” x 11”
Pensamentos #6, 2011, watercolor, gouache, conte, pencil on wood veneer, 10� x 31�
Selected Resume Selected Solo Exhibitions • • •
Cumberland Gallery (2017, 2007, 2003, 1998, 1994, 1991, 1984) 2009 Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, California 2007 Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California
Selected Group Exhibitions • • • • •
2016 San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, California 2011 Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, Massachusetts 2002 Instituto Cultural Brasileiro Norte-Americano, Porto Alegre, Brazil 2000 Scuola Internationalze di Graphica, Venice, Italy 1980 Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.
Selected Museum Collections • • • • • • • •
Museo Tomle Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach Brooklyn Museum of Art Indianapolis Museum of Art Philadelphia Museum of Art Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo, Brazil Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Selected Awards • • •
1986 Fulbright Foundation Travel Grant; Brazil 2001 U.S. State Department Cultural Exchange Grant, São Paulo, Brazil 2006 Professor Emeritus, Sonoma State University, California
Artist Statement .
My work refers to Brazilian travels, specifically along the Amazon River Basin. Naturalistic forms resembling beehives, vertebrae, cocoons, anthills, plant forms and insects are spread across the surface of the work. My palette is often subdued beneath a layer of darkness, suggesting mystery. The work transcribes a memory of objects and impressions of what was seen and felt. Brazil and the Amazon River Basin have been the subject and inspiration for my work for more than thirty years. Visiting the region now two to three times a year I find that the landscape has many moods. The Amazon River is an apt metaphor for the act of churning up remembered objects and sights, gathered while traveling along its rough course. In its flow, the river boils an object to the surface only to swallow it up again to resurface later. These impressions are a memory of the river bound on both sides by a high, dark jungle; foreboding and beautiful. If it takes you in, it takes you in whole. Bob Nugent, 2017