Warrior Rider
2019 · Crayon, grease pencil, brush and tempera, and graphite pencil, with smudging, on off-white wove paper
61 × 48 cm (24 1/16 × 18 15/16 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Robert Nava
1985
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Robert Nava
Pace Gallery
2025
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Robert Nava creates large-scale paintings that merge prehistoric imagery, Egyptian symbolism, and cartoon aesthetics into metamorphic creatures rendered in spray paint, acrylics, and grease pencil. His hybrid forms inhabit a visual space between ancient visual cultures and contemporary pop vernacular, constructed through layered, gestural mark-making that emphasizes material immediacy. Working from East Chicago, Nava's paintings assert formal complexity and conceptual depth through a deliberately hybrid visual language that resists singular classification.
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