Ranging widely from densely textured works on canvas formed with layers of an acrylic and pumice mixture on top of silicon molds to abstract representations of the native olive and cedar trees of Lebanon, Nahas’s work consistently oscillates between many aesthetic sensibilities, ultimately driven by his almost religious passion for abstraction.
Native Lebanese painter Nabil Nahas sits down to chat with Tabitha Piseno in this must-read interview about craft, cedar trees, and New York City, where his month long exhibit begins tomorrow.
