| Donald
Nield
Donald Nield borrows from the past and recombines
a variety of elements in a fecund imagery rife with imagination.
Mr. Nield makes use of allegorical, symbalism and surreal imagery.
For example: He uses the classical surreal device of juxtaposition
of unlikely subjects to create an eerie suffocating atmosphere.
If his paintings are indecipherable, it is
because they refer to the artist's personal iconography. Some are relatively
transparent,
but others remain difficult. It is not necessarily the artist's
intent to convey meaning, but feeling and any interpretation
of the painting is as valid or invalid as any other.
Like most surrealists, Mr. Nield is also a classicist who paints
with great care and conviction. The very precision of rendering
contributes to the bizarre Quality of his canvasses.
Although Mr. Nield's style is classical,
the language of his vision is contemporary. His paintings are
a strange mix of formalism
combined with a sense of dislocation which is the onus of 20th
century man.
Selected Exhibitions
N.Y. City Ballet Gallery
United States Navy
Gallerie Extension
Strand Bookstore
Petria's Gallery
Greenwich
House
Collections
United States Navy
Anita Kurman-Gulkin
David Wolynski
Harry
Aaronson
Jamie Brontha
Cathy Cody
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