• Overview

    “Seduced by the formal complexity of color, I revel in its emotive slipperiness and enjoy mining its controversial decorativeness. The inextricability of these aspects unique to color continually spurs my engagement. Tuned to the vivid and continuous absurd disparities of daily life, I weave visual rhythms—resonant, discordant, muscular, mellifluous—in patterns akin to currents and eddies, note taking, list making, pixilation and mapping.”

    - Martina Nehrling

     

    “MARTINA NEHRLING MAKES BRIGHT IMPASTO ACRYLIC PAINTINGS OF CONCENTRIC CIRCLES, THAT MESMERIZE YOU WITH THEIR VIBRANCY AND HYPNOTIC PATTERNS.” 

    – PHILIP A HARTIGAN, HYPERALLERGIC

     

     

     

  • Select Works
    • Martina Nehrling, Badly Gladly Madly, 2022
      Martina Nehrling, Badly Gladly Madly, 2022
      $ 1,600.00
    • Martina Nehrling, Bridge, 2021
      Martina Nehrling, Bridge, 2021
      $ 1,800.00
      Martina Nehrling, Bridge, 2021
      $ 1,800.00
    • Martina Nehrling, Cracked, 2021
      Martina Nehrling, Cracked, 2021
      $ 1,000.00
      Martina Nehrling, Cracked, 2021
      $ 1,000.00
    • Martina Nehrling, Flying Buttress 1, 2021
      Martina Nehrling, Flying Buttress 1, 2021
      $ 2,000.00
    • Martina Nehrling, Flying Buttress 2, 2021
      Martina Nehrling, Flying Buttress 2, 2021
      $ 2,000.00
    • Martina Nehrling, Flying Buttress 3, 2021
      Martina Nehrling, Flying Buttress 3, 2021
      $ 2,000.00
    • Martina Nehrling, Fold Crease Bend, 2022
      Martina Nehrling, Fold Crease Bend, 2022
      $ 2,000.00
    • Martina Nehrling, Fringe, 2022
      Martina Nehrling, Fringe, 2022
      $ 1,000.00
    • Martina Nehrling, Jab, 2021
      Martina Nehrling, Jab, 2021
      $ 3,600.00
    • Martina Nehrling, Mineral, 2019
      Martina Nehrling, Mineral, 2019
      $ 1,800.00
      Martina Nehrling, Mineral, 2019
      $ 1,800.00
    • Martina Nehrling, Negotiation 1, 2019
      Martina Nehrling, Negotiation 1, 2019
      $ 3,400.00
    • Martina Nehrling, Negotiation 2, 2019
      Martina Nehrling, Negotiation 2, 2019
      $ 3,400.00
    • Martina Nehrling, Negotiation 3, 2019
      Martina Nehrling, Negotiation 3, 2019
      $ 3,400.00
    • Martina Nehrling, Side Eye, 2019
      Martina Nehrling, Side Eye, 2019
      $ 1,800.00
    • Martina Nehrling, Side Note, 2022
      Martina Nehrling, Side Note, 2022
      $ 1,000.00
      Martina Nehrling, Side Note, 2022
      $ 1,000.00
    • Martina Nehrling, Sonder, 2022
      Martina Nehrling, Sonder, 2022
      $ 2,000.00
    • Martina Nehrling, Sought Snuck Saved, 2022
      Martina Nehrling, Sought Snuck Saved, 2022
      $ 2,000.00
    • Martina Nehrling, Spit Sweat Gallop, 2022
      Martina Nehrling, Spit Sweat Gallop, 2022
      $ 2,000.00
    • Martina Nehrling, Tasty, 2021
    • Martina Nehrling, Tasty
    • Martina Nehrling, The Waters Above The Waters Below, 2022
      Martina Nehrling, The Waters Above The Waters Below, 2022
      $ 3,800.00
      Martina Nehrling, The Waters Above The Waters Below, 2022
      $ 3,800.00
    • Martina Nehrling, Through a Purple Patch
      Martina Nehrling, Through a Purple Patch
    • Martina Nehrling, Whetted Wilted Winded, 2022
      Martina Nehrling, Whetted Wilted Winded, 2022
      $ 2,000.00
    • Martina Nehrling, Point, 2018
      Martina Nehrling, Point, 2018
      $ 1,200.00
  • Exhibitions & Fairs

  • Biography

    Martina Nehrling is a Chicago-based artist who received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and an MFA from the University of Chicago. She has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Lake Forest College, and for the Associated Colleges of the Midwest Chicago Arts Program. She has been awarded grants by the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and the Illinois Arts Council, and has presented her work at the Art Institute of Chicago Artists Connect Lecture Series. Kingston, New York and her home town of Indianapolis, Indiana feature her work in their city public art installations. Her work is exhibited internationally and part of many public and private collections.

     

    “I use multiple distinct brushstrokes for their staccato quality and graphic directness, and employ highly saturated chroma for its insistence, its unapologetic hysteria, its mirth and its
    madness. With this tensile language I explore what it means to be here, musing meditatively or ranting in lush celebration, high-pitched lament, or raucous rebellion.”

    - Martina Nehrling

     

     

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