She Was a Real Trouper – Acts of Service
2020 · Cut-and-pasted printed paper on panel
85 1/2 × 73 1/2" (217.2 × 186.7 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Nina Chanel Abney
1982
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Nina Chanel Abney makes paintings that confront race, gender, homophobia, and politics through a lexicon of bold geometric forms, neon color, and appropriated imagery drawn from pop culture and protest aesthetics. Her work operates between abstraction and legibility, collaging corporate logos, political slogans, and figuration into compositions that feel urgent and deliberately confrontational. Based in New York, Abney treats the canvas as a site for social commentary where formal rigor and political statement are inseparable.
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Augustana University
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