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  • SILVER GELATIN PRINTS (1989-1999) | nina-isabelle

    Silver gelatin prints & hand made photograms by Nina Isabelle (1989-1999) HOME ABOUT PROJECTS More... SILVER GELATIN PRINTS 1989-1999 A Collection of gelatin silver prints made from photograms, handmade negatives, and experimental darkroom photographic processes. Mother Selenium toned silver gelatin print toned silver gelatin print toned silver gelatin print Selenium toned silver gelatin print 7x9 toned silver gelatin print toned silver gelatin print Selenium toned silver gelatin print 7x9 toned silver gelatin print prismacolor on toned silver gelatin print toned silver gelatin print sepia toned silver gelatin print toned silver gelatin print toned silver gelatin print toned silver gelatin print Selenium toned silver gelatin print 7x9 1/1

  • AARON PIERCE | nina-isabelle

    HOME ABOUT PROJECTS More... Aaron Pierce February 2017 A: I am a graduate from Utah Valley University and I am writing a dissertation for the university's biannual Art History Symposium. The topic of discussion this year is Maximalism. I am particularly focusing on performance art as the contemporary medium that is reinventing museum spaces and engaging audiences by stimulating the senses more through music, dance, film, and painting combined. That is where your exhibit Animal Maximalism came to my attention. I am completely intrigued and enthralled by your performance art pieces and projects you have created. For this paper, I would love to have your view on performance art and Maximalism. I am interested in hearing some of your methods about performance art and Maximalism. It is rare in art history to be able to have contact with the artist, hence my excitement. If you do not mind sharing your opinion, I would like to know how you feel performance art engages audiences and pushes them to connect on a higher level to art? Also, why are we seeing a shift towards more performance art pieces in museums and galleries? I feel that audiences want to have a full sensory experience. How does Maximalist performance art achieve this better than other medium of art? N: I practice a process of allowance where I let myself do what I want. This approach results in maximum data and action. By letting myself engage with an array of modalities I can generate multiple outcomes and possibilities. Because I'm not limited to any single mode of involvement, I'm free to use painting, performance, photography, or video or a mixture of modalities as I find necessary depending on my agenda and instinct. This suits my athletic, resourceful, and determined nature. I approach performance art in the same way I would approach any other art modality- by paying close attention to gut instincts and psychic impressions in a process designed to override cerebral programming. The aim is always to align action with intention, and make note of the findings and outcome along the way. Performance art is a good choice when the concept I'm grappling with calls for a human body, action, or a narrative to actuate the outcome, especially literal concepts like worshiping the golden calf or using blood to cleanse things. My body can become a tool, a stand-in, or effigy of or for the viewer, creating a point of commonality to facilitate access. Aligning action with intention is also a way to re-frame ritual and an attempt to validate the effectiveness of approaches historically relegated to realms of religious structures and beliefs. I was recently invited to teach an art theory class for kids at The Hudson Valley Sudbury School. Through our discussions it emerged that the students felt most drawn to art practices and outcomes that suited the nature, mentality, and necessity of the individual artist. For instance they could relate to how Chuck Close became successful at painting faces as a result of his lifelong struggle with a facial recognition disorder. In reflecting on my personal method it occurs to me that my mode of operation is dictated by my nature, I didn't choose to function within the Maximalism approach and philosophy, it's just that the philosophy happens to align with my nature. I'm a serial over-doer of all things who relishes the opportunity to push things too far. My work is reactionary because I'm a reactionary person. For instance the first time I encountered minimalism I was ready to explode in a thousand directions. And, as an art student I couldn't help but challenge typical art professor's slogans such as "You have to know when to stop." Of course I could recognized the academically dictated stopping point but I would never in a million years stop there. I've always felt that learning how to challenge, push, or destroy something is a valid study when handled respectfully and with intention. Performance art is an another mode of operating for artists to use in order to find or generate new information, to experiment with creating new experiences, or to try to express something they otherwise couldn't. It can engage the viewer in an intimate way offering the potential to build powerful experiences as it facilitates a space that can involve and include the viewer in a novel physical or psychic way. It's possible that since performance art inhabits walking space where gallery-goers would otherwise be moving about, a psychic connection is created by sharing the same space. As viewers, we know less about what it would be like to hang motionless on a wall. Performance art offers a platform for artists to practice aligning action with intention, a way to possibly re-frame ritual and to build experimental new models for of control or power to replace outmoded religious structures and beliefs. But also, It's possible the performance art trend might be a way for artists to backhandedly confront consumerism and elitism simultaneously, or at least to create the illusion of doing so. Commercial galleries and academic environments can be market driven or exclusive, but performance art has the ability to dissolve those traditional notions and to expand viewership by engaging broader mentalities in a way that would be difficult for strictly visual work focused on heady concepts or dollar amounts. And since we live in a culture of visual bombardment, where viewer's digitally conditioned eyes and minds are increasingly savvy, and in conjunction with consumer programming, we need something that can function both inside of and outside of commercial gallery and academic paradigms. There is a literal dissolution of boundaries. Since performance art is impervious to ownership and commodification, it pushes against market-driven capitalist structures and challenges a system where finances determine success. Issues of marketability, ownership, or commodity all come into play because its difficult to financially capitalize off of performance art. So, maybe it's like most trends- timely and culturally necessity. I developed the Animal Maximalism exhibition concept as a way to bombard the human sensory input manifold with the intention of revealing cloaked information. I use the word "Animal" as an homage to instinct. For me academia operated through reversal, fueling my defiance more than refining me the way school is supposed to, so part of my mission has always been to build legitimate framework for us animals, one that is less cage-like, and Maximalism is a good framework for that agenda. I try to work within and build upon systems that already exist that might reflect and support my authentic nature, and to allow my work to reflect and be a response to the full spectrum of my body's biologic manifestation of its own history within its cultural environment. Maximalism feels like science-fiction, in that it offers the potential for system building where the inward personal landscape can travel all the way outward through the giant jumbled experience of collective household, community, country, and planetary psychic connections. Maybe performance offers an easier access point to the viewer in that we can all relate to each other as humans who are human shaped and have human form. We all share common ways of moving our human forms through space. It's possible that performance could function to create a portal, like a way out or a way in.

  • BLACK BEDROOM | nina-isabelle

    Nina A. Isabelle is a process-based multidisciplinary artist working with abstract painting, performance art, video, photography, sound, and sculpture. HOME ABOUT PROJECTS More... THE BEDROOM 4th Iteration THE HOLLAND TUNNEL GALLERY Brooklyn, NY October 20 - November 12 The Bedroom is an international monochromatic flux installation by The Women Artist Team. The 3rd Iteration was exhibited at NA Gallery in Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea.

  • WE CAN'T TELL WHAT WE'RE DOING | nina-isabelle

    We Can't Tell What We're Doing is the discovery of a process that eats itself and then absorbs information from its own bowels. Nina Isabelle. HiLo Catskill. HOME ABOUT PROJECTS More... WE CAN'T TELL WHAT WE'RE DOING A recursive Installation event including painting, sculpture, performance, wearables, photo & video, explosions, and more. HiLo Catskill, NY June 20 - August 26, 2018 Through the superimposition of objects, photographs, video, action, painting, performance and narratives, We Can't Tell What We're Doing presses toward and hunts for a shift in meaning. This work is an inquiry and demonstration of a process that highjacks the past as a way to cultivate a future the way an AI robot might discover how to make sourdough bread out of itself. We Can't Tell What We're Doing is the discovery of a process that eats itself and then absorbs information from its own bowels. In attempt to manipulate spatial priority through ingesting inspections of object installation designed to illuminate internalized pockets of herniated or obstructed space where abstracted, impacted, and encrypted information and nutrient data might be stuck or diverted, this process reveals itself as a method that facilitates a solid flow of information that can be used to bind meaning and value to the motility of art in a regular way.

  • STAR HOUSE ARCHIVE | nina-isabelle

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  • SHIRT FACTORY CENTENIAL | nina-isabelle

    HOME ABOUT PROJECTS More... THE SHIRT FACTORY CENTENNIAL KINGSTON, NY September 16, 2017, 2018 For The Shirt Factory Centennial Celebration I tied 100 flags together and looped them through the building.

  • FEEDING THE ENTITY | nina-isabelle

    HOME ABOUT PROJECTS More... FEEDING THE ENTITY MARCH 2015 Clara Diamond & Nina Isabelle Feeding The Entity explores the development and agenda of interwoven notions of communal beliefs, material dynamics, possibilities of non-linear physical travel implied through numbers expressing location using longitude and latitude, the metaphor of breath in relation to inspiration and language styles expressing give-and-take or push/pull communication patterns, the articulation of verbal concepts in relation to the movement between ball-and-socket joints such as the hips and shoulders during the birthing-process, as well as the documentation of scientifically unsubstantiated effects of focused intention and ritual action in non-physical reality such as memory, deja-vu, and other phenomena of psychic imprint.

  • Handmade book by Nina Isabelle

    Handmade book by Nina Isabelle HOME ABOUT PROJECTS More... Handmade Book 1992 7x9 This book was made using vintage photos, construction paper, and resin coated photo paper sent through a Xerox machine, map scraps, and electrical, scotch, and masking tape. I used a sewing machine to stitch it together. The book had been in storage for years and I decided to document it.

  • VMS USER ARCHIVE | nina-isabelle

    The Video Manifestation System offers a way to build and shape reality by guiding users through a process designed to align intention with action resulting in a five minute video including individualy prescribed viewing directives. HOME ABOUT PROJECTS More... THE VIDEO MANIFESTATION SYSTEM USER ARCHIVE Download Video Manifestation System from HUMAN TRASH DUMP here: https://archive.org/details/htdc005 ALICE TEEPLE December 9, 2019 Manifesting Ethical And Sustainable Paths Best Suited To Artists' True Calling ALICE TEEPLE December 8, 2019 Video Manifestation System to Manifest A Balance of the Divine Masculine and Feminine ALICE TEEPLE January 4, 2018 Video Manifestation System to Manifest Excellent Career Opportunities NINA ISABELLE November 18, 2017 Video Manifestation System Video to Manifest a Video Manifestation System

  • THE EUCHARIST MACHINE / Nina A. Isabelle

    The Eucharist Machine stores edible digital data in the DNA of the body of Christ. HOME ABOUT PROJECTS More... THE EUCHARIST MACHINE BANGKOK UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL BANGKOK, THAILAND / MARCH , 2017 English with Thai subtitles Thai with English subtitles Inspired by Chris Lehmann’s book The Money Cult: Capitalism, Christianity, and the Unmaking of The American Dream, The Eucharist Machine addresses language, perception, and belief. In The Eucharist Machine, information is skewed by a presentation of jumbled non-linear facts and fiction, science, pseudoscience, and science fiction. Inaccurate grammar and linguistics push the concept even further by incorporating the cockamayme Thai / English subtitles and voice-overs produced by Google Translate and Apple’s Text To Speech system preference in a process that reverse-legitimizes the information. The Eucharist Machine is what happens when the under informed articulate with high-tech features. Information lost in translation becomes a sort of up-cycled spirituality; a futuristic projection of possible renewal of the crumbling dialogue between spirituality, commodity, and financial value. The Eucharist Machine takes a serious, culturally backwards, multigenerational look at what it means to be sanctified. เครื่องศีลมหาสนิทเป็นหนังสั้นที่เขียนกำกับและแก้ไขโดยศิลปินนานาชาติ Nina อิสซาเบล แรงบันดาลใจจากหนังสือของคริสมาห์ของเงินลัทธิ: ทุนนิยมคริสต์และ Unmaking ของความฝันอเมริกันภาษาอยู่เครื่องศีลมหาสนิทการรับรู้และความเชื่อ ในศีลมหาสนิทเครื่องข้อมูลจะถูกบิดเบือนโดยการนำเสนอข้อเท็จจริงที่คลั่งไคล้ที่ไม่ใช่เชิงเส้นและนิยายวิทยาศาสตร์ pseudoscience และนิยายวิทยาศาสตร์ ไวยากรณ์ไม่ถูกต้องและภาษาศาสตร์ผลักดันแนวคิดให้ดียิ่งขึ้นโดยผสมผสาน cockamayme คำบรรยายภาษาไทย / ภาษาอังกฤษและเสียงพากย์ผลิตโดย Google Translate และข้อความของ Apple เพื่อการตั้งค่าระบบเสียงพูดในกระบวนการที่ย้อนกลับ legitimizes ข้อมูล เครื่องศีลมหาสนิทเป็นสิ่งที่เกิดขึ้นเมื่ออยู่ภายใต้แจ้งปล้องที่มีคุณสมบัติที่มีเทคโนโลยีสูง ข้อมูล Lost in Translation กลายเป็นจัดเรียงของขึ้นกรณืจิตวิญญาณ; การฉายอนาคตของการต่ออายุเป็นไปได้ของการเจรจาบี้ระหว่างจิตวิญญาณสินค้าโภคภัณฑ์และความคุ้มค่าทางการเงิน ศีลมหาสนิทเครื่องยิงร้ายแรงวัฒนธรรมย้อนหลังดูหลายรุ่นว่ามันหมายถึงความบริสุทธิ์

  • Nina A. Isabelle

    Nina A. Isabelle is a process based multidisciplinary artist working with abstract painting, performance art, video, photography, sound, and sculpture. Nina Isabelle is a process-based artist whose work explores the creative impulse, mystery, and failure. Her interdisciplinary practice investigates how sensory experience drives action and meaning-making in art and life. Distinct from institutional art frameworks, Isabelle’s practice remains deliberately unscientific and resists the contemporary trend of presenting art as if it is a form of research or proof. Rather than flattening mystery through rational explanation, her work sustains it—treating the unknown as a generative space for inquiry, intuition, and transformation. Motivated by the failures of language, the dissonance between form and content, and the instability of memory, Isabelle creates systems for action and improvisation to reveal how perception organizes experience. Her methods often involve structured gestures, movements, or constructions derived from mathematical patterns, spatial coordinates, or time-based scores. Her projects generate sculptural and wearable artifacts that function as evidence of process—material outcomes of experiments with form and consciousness. Through photography, video, and sound, she examines sensory inconsistencies and shifting perspectives, using perception itself as both medium and subject. Isabelle’s work has been presented internationally at Hexagram (Montreal), the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (Gimpo, South Korea), The Unstitute (Catalunya, Spain), the Bangkok Underground Film Festival (Thailand), and NA Gallery (South Korea). Nationally, her projects have been shown at the San Diego Art Institute, The New School’s exhibition at The Bushwick Collective, Roman Susan (Chicago), and CX Silver Gallery (Vermont), among others. In New York City, her work has appeared at The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, The Queens Museum, Judson Memorial Church, Grace Exhibition Space, and ABC No Rio in Exile at Bullet Space, as well as Para//el Performance Space and The Ear in Brooklyn. In 2018, Isabelle founded Three Phase Center in Stone Ridge, NY—a studio and production space where she facilitates, collaborates with, and documents the work of process-based conceptual and performance artists. Three Phase Center also produces Documenting Process, a video series highlighting the lateral and often unquantifiable values of artistic practices that challenge institutional measures of worth. Education Isabelle first studied art at the Pennsylvania School of Art and Design in 1991, then at the University of Utah. She earned her B.A. in Art with honors from Westminster College in 1999 and received a Rensselaer Graduate Fellowship in 2022 to pursue doctoral study in the Electronic Arts program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Exhibitions, Collaborations, Participations & Projects 2025 Ambient Performance for Quiet Village 6.0, New Paltz, NY 2025 Sudden Somethings with Patricia Coleman, MJPIII & Brody Scott at NYU Silver Center, NY 2025 Recipient of The Malcolm S. Morse Graduate Research Enhancement Award 2025 Electronic Arts Graduate Exhibition, Create Community Studios, Troy, NY 2025 THE CORVETTE PERFORMANCE MACHINE , OFF SIGHT + SOUND , Eastern Bloc , Montreal, Quebec 2024 UFO Conjuring for Transit of Venus at Kiddie Pool Art, December 6, 2024, Albany, NY 2024 Dialogues for the Ear & Eye: Anton Yakovlev, Nina Isabelle, Marianne Osiel, 9W Diner, Saugerties, NY 2024 O+Art festival with Linda Mary Montano at Keegan Ales, Kingston, NY 2024 The Scholar with Structure Affliction, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, 2024 Embodied Noise Exorcism, Rosekill Performance Art Farm, Rosendale, NY 2024 Seeding Care with Kathie Halfin, Hanae Utamura, and Georgia Lale, Artport, Kingston, NY 2024 RPI Graduate Exhibit, Create Communities Studio, Troy, NY 2024 Postenkill Gorgeous with Lisa Schonberg, Oakwood Community Center, Troy, NY 2023 5 Objects, Percussion & Piano for Lisa Schonberg's Old Growth Playback, The Sanctuary for Independent Media, Troy, NY 2023 Electronic Arts PhD Open Studios, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 2023 Chicken Performance with Linda Montano at Lamb Center, Saugerties, NY 2023 Art = Healing, a group exhibit by Linda Montano at Emerge Gallery, Saugerties, NY 2023 b priori, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute EArts PhD Graduate Exhibit at Collarworks, Troy, NY 2022 West Hall Open Studios, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 2022 Livestream - Nina Isabelle & Adriana Magaña at Jennifer Zackin's Upstate Art Open Studio, July 2022 2021 Building as Being / Construction as Performance - IV Castellanos & Nina Isabelle at Rosekill Performance Art Farm, June 2021 2021 Nina Isabelle - Artist, Thinker, Observer , Theresa Widman's Podcast #183 2021 The Black Meta Interviews Nina Isabelle for Radio Kingston, by Beetle & Freedom Walker, May 2021 2021 Psychic Self Defense, Artlife Institute, Kingston, NY 2021 Imagined Performance written by Nina Isabelle presented by IV Castellanos, Para\\el Performance Space, Brooklyn, NY 2020 Meet The Makers, Children's Museum of Art in NYC interviews Nina Isabelle, October 21, 2020 2020 Spheres of Performance, Perception, and Value, virtual presentation for The Hynes Institute of Entrepreneurship & Innovation at Iona College, September 2020 2020 Video Manifestation System User Interface Lecture and Presentation, Grace Exhibition Space, NYC , May 1, 2020 2020 Superfund Revisioning Project Lecture, Grace Exhibition Space, NYC . May 15, 2020 2020 EQUINOX, An Emergency of Joy, March 19, 2020 2019 The Shape of a Feeling & the Languages of Organizational Structures, The Esthetic Apostle, October 2019. Web. 2019 Choices & Voices, The Ear, Brooklyn, NY 2019 Remarkable New Locations, CX Silver Gallery, Brattleboro, VT 2019 April 5th Video for Daily Trumpet by Jonathan Horowitz. Web. 2019 Illuminating Intangibles with Amelia Iaia at Para\\el Performance Space, Brooklyn, NY 2019 Documentation Discussion with LiVEART.US at Queens Museum 2018 Empathy Blinders by David Ian Bellows/Griess with Nina Isabelle & Elizabeth Lamb, Brooklyn Arts Media , December 4-18, 2018 2018 LaTable Ronde / Critical Practices Round Table #7.1 on Careerism, NYC 2018 In Honor Of, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NYC 2018 actLife, Linda Montano, Nye Ffarrabas (Bici Forbes,) Cai Xi, Lee Xi, Nina Isabelle, Jennifer Zackin, Sharon Myers, C.X. Silver Gallery, Brattleboro, VT 2018 Healing + Arts / Radical Domesticity, Movement Metaphors Time Travel Workshop, Kingston, NY 2018 No Nudes / No Sunsets, Greene County Council on the Arts, Catskill, NY 2018 Whistle Portraits with Linda Mary Montano & Jennifer Zackin, Secret City Art Revival, Woodstock, NY 2018 Whistle Portraits with Linda Mary Montano & Jennifer Zackin, HiLo, Catskill, NY 2018 Animalia, 2018 Anarchist Art Fair at Judson Memorial Church, NYC 2018 Citizen Participation: Diagrams & Directives, Feminist Art Group, ABC No Rio in Exile at Bullet Space, NYC 2018 The Hymn Warp Transducer, Paul McMahon's Bedstock, 9 Herkimer Place, Brooklyn, NY 2018 Muscular Bonding, New Genres Arts Festival, Living Arts Tulsa, OK 2018 Video Manifestation System by Nina A. Isabelle, Human Trash Dump, www.archive.org , 2018 Piano Portraits with Linda Mary Montano, Nina Isabelle, & Jennifer Zackin at HiLo in Catskill, NY 2018 Beast Conjuring, The Mothership, Woodstock, NY 2017 MKUVM, Human Trash Dump, Nov. 27, 2017, www.archive.org 2017 Vidiot, The Unstitute, Catalonia, Spain & Virtual 2017 4th Iteration of The Bedroom by T.W.A.T. (The Women Art Team), Holland Tunnel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2017 CENTENNIAL:SHE, Greene County Council on the Arts, Catskill, NY 2017 Patricia Field's Art/Fashion Show, Joe's Garage, Catskill, NY 2017 Feminist Art Group Performance, Old Glenford Church Studio, Glenford, NY 2017 Midtown Arts District Art Walk, Kingston, NY 2017 The Shirt Factory Centennial, Kingston, NY 2017 The Unstitute's Projection Room, Integrative Ontological Practices by Selden Paterson & The Eucharist Machine by Nina Isabelle, Catalonia, Spain & Virtual 2017 We Are The Secret Garden, The Stable Yard at Ernest, Anna, & Ming's in Kingston, NY 2017 The Bedroom, The Women Artist Team at NA Gallery, Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea 2017 Just Situations with FAG, Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY 2017 Ungovernable Zone by Anarko Art Lab at Secret Garden Art Festival at Ft. Tilden, NYC 2017 Beautiful Symphony: Women Creating Chaos with F.A.G at Rosekill, Rosendale, NY 2017 Experimental Archery & Mark Making, Rosekill, Rosendale, NY 2017 MOTHERING, Rosekill Performance Art Farm, Rosendale, NY 2017 If You Don't Go Out In The Woods, Legacy Fatale, Rosekill Performance Art Farm, Rosendale, NY 2017 oUT iN tHE zONE, Anarchist Art Festival #11, Judson Memorial Church, NYC 2017 UNITY, The Lace Mill Gallery, Kingston, NY 2017 Wish You Were Here II, The Old Glenford Church Studio, Glenford, NY 2017 Feminist Art Group (F.A.G.) Knights of The Round Table, Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY 2017 Stages, Green Kill Gallery, Kingston, NY 2017 Property, Roman Susan & Rogers Park / West Ridge Historical, Chicago, IL 2017 Bangkok Underground Film Festival, Bridge Art Space, Bangkok, Thailand 2017 Time Travel Research, Brooklyn, NY 2017 SHORTCUT TO HELL, Otion Front Studio, Brooklyn, NY 2016 Laundry Loops with JOB // IV Soldier's F.A.G. (Feminist Art Group,) Panoply Performance Laboratory, Brooklyn, NY 2016 The Dead Are Not Quiet, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA 2016 Artist and Location, Czong Institute For Contemporary Art (CICA) Museum, Gimpo, Korea 2016 The Jernquist Coloring Book Show, Studio Fidlär, Alexanderplatz, Berlin 2016 PoliTRICKS, Art Ellipsis, Philladephia, PA 2016 Feminist Art Group in IV Soldiers Gallery at Rosekill Performance Farm, Rosendale, NY 2016 85th Annual Woodstock Library Fair, Woodstock, NY 2016 The Shirt Factory Open Studios, Kingston, NY 2016 The New School / Bushwick Collective, Brooklyn, NY 2016 The Shirt Factory Artists, Wired Gallery, High Falls, NY 2016 Wish You Were Here, The Old Glenford Church Studio, Glenford, NY 2016 Installation and Performance at The Art Life Institute with Clara Diamond, Kingston, NY 2016 The Pain Project / Alice Teeple-Now Is Real, Star House Gallery, Kingston, NY 2015 Silent Mass Generator Workshop, Grace Exhibition Space Archive, Kingston, NY 2015 Instinct, The Parliament, York, PA 2015 Posthumous Collaborations, Star House Gallery, Kingston, NY 2015 Abstract Mediums, Star House Gallery, Kingston, NY 2014 Witness: The Cedar Tavern Phone Booth Show, Star House Gallery, Kingston, NY 2014 Old Pro, Punk Rock Fish Studio, Berlin, MD 2014 Art Along The Hudson at S.P.A.F, Saugerties, NY 2014 Star House Gallery, Studio Sale, Kingston, NY 2014 Varga Gallery Memorial Day Group Show, Woodstock, NY 2014 Bold And Bright curated by David Barr, Artspace,Falls Church, VA 2013 Ethos of Abstraction-Nina Isabelle/Lucienne Weinberger, Stray Cat Gallery, Bethel, NY 2013 The Garden Cafe, Woodstock, NY 2013 Diagnosis Artist, Star House Gallery, Kingston, NY 2013 Half Your Age, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY 2013 Barrett Art Center, Kinetic, Poughkeepsie, NY 2013 Art Foray, Wired Gallery, High Falls, NY 2013 Home Grown, Hole In The Wall Gallery, Mechanicsburg, PA 2013 Outer Expressions of Inner Mayhem, solo show, Metropolis Collective, Mechanicsburg, PA 2012 Bits & Pieces, The Metropolis Collective, Mechanicsburg, PA 2012 Cool Cats, Hole in The Wall Gallery, Mechanicsburg, PA 2012 Fall Season Show, Greenpoint Gallery,Brooklyn, NY 2012 IDIOM, Unison at Water Street Market Gallery, New Paltz, NY 2012 The Maltese Falcon, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY 2012 Trash Art Gallery at The Metropolis Collective, Mechanicsburg, PA 2012 The Handmade Photograph, Mills Pond House Gallery, Smithtown, Long Island, NY 2012 Sex 7, Projekt 30, NYC 2012 Cornell St. Studio, Kingston, NY 2012 Varga Gallery, Goddess Show, Woodstock, NY 2012 Erotica, Tivoli Artists co-op, Tivoli, NY 2012 Birds of a Feather, Varga Gallery. Woodstock, NY 2011 Paintings / Drawings, Lovebird Studios, Rosendale, NY 2011 Season Show, Art @ Home, Kingston, NY 2010 Wings Gallery, Rosendale, NY 2007 South Main Studios, Gunnison, CO 2007 Paragon Gallery, Crested Butte, CO 2005 The Gunnison Arts Center, Gunnison, CO 2004 The Gunnison Arts Center, Gunnison, CO 2003 The Gunnison Arts Center, Gunnison, CO 2002 The Gunnison Arts Center, Gunnison, CO 1999 Jewett Center, Westminster College, Salt Lake City, UT 1998 Sundance Gallery, Sundance, UT 1998 Weber State College, Weber, UT 1992 P.S.A.D Student Gallery, Lancaster, PA 1991 P.S.A.D. Student Gallery, Lancaster, PA 1990 Centre Film Lab, State College, PA 1989 Art Alliance of Central Pennsylvania, State College, PA 1988 Pennsylvania State Capital Building, Harrisburg, PA Solo Exhibitions 2021 Psychic Self-Defense, Artlife Institute Kingston, Kingston, NY 2019 Remarkable New Locations, CX Silver Gallery, Brattleboro, VT 2018 We Can't Tell What We're Doing, HiLo, Catskill, NY 2018 The Beast, The Mothership, Woodstock, NY 2017 Nina A. Isabelle at HiLo Art, Catskill, NY 2016 Animal Maximalism, Green Kill, Kingston, NY 2016 Hyperactive Installation at The Shirt Factory, Kingston, NY 2016 The Pain Project, Art/Life Institute, Kingston, NY 2014 The Random Community Generator, Star House Gallery, Kingston, NY 2013 Inner Mayhem, Metropolis Collective, Harrisburg, PA 2002 Nina Isabelle, Gunnison Art Center, Gunnison, CO 1999 Handmade Photographs, Bibliotheque, Salt Lake City, UT Performance 2022 Livestream - Nina Isabelle & Adriana Magaña at Jennifer Zackin's Upstate Art Open Studio, July 2022 2021 Building as Being / Construction as Performance - IV Castellanos & Nina Isabelle at Rosekill Performance Art Farm, June 2021 2020 EQUINOX, An Emergency of Joy, Three Phase Center, Stone Ridge, NY 2019 Illuminating Intangibles, Para\\el Performance Space, Brooklyn, NY 2018 Land Lines with Jennifer Zackin, C.X. Silver Gallery, Brattleboro, VT 2018 Whistle Portraits with Linda Mary Montano & Jennifer Zackin, Secret City, Woodstock, NY 2018 Whistle Portraits with Linda Mary Montano & Jennifer Zackin, HiLo, Catskill, NY 2018 Embodying The Outer Bodies / Force Yourself To Be Good, Brooklyn, NY 2018 Citizen Participation: Diagrams & Directives, Feminist Art Group, www.bulletspace.org , NYC 2018 The Hymn Warp Transducer, Paul McMahon's Bedstock, 9 Herkimer Place, Brooklyn, NY 2018 Muscular Bonding, New Genres Arts Festival, Living Arts,Tulsa, OK 2018 Piano Portraits with Linda Mary Montano, Nina Isabelle, & Jennifer Zackin at HiLo in Catskill, NY 2018 Beast Conjuring, The Mothership, Woodstock, NY 2017 We Are The Secret Garden, Kingston, NY 2017 Ungovernable Zone by Anarko Art Lab at Secret Garden Art Festival at Ft. Tilden, NYC 2017 MOTHERING, Rosekill Performance Art Farm, Rosendale, NY 2017 If You Don't Go Out In The Woods, Legacy Fatale, Rosekill Performance Art Farm, Rosendale, NY 2017 oUT iN tHE zONE, Anarchist Art Festival #11, Judson Memorial Church, NYC 2017 The Fabric of Women's Space-Time, The Lace Mill Gallery, Kingston, NY 2017 Stages, Green Kill Gallery, Kingston, NY 2017 Time Travel Research, Brooklyn, NY 2016 Mock The Chasm, Art / Life Institute, Kingston, NY 2016 Laundry Loops at JOB /// IV Soldier's F.A.G. Feminist Art Group, Brooklyn, NY 2016 Q: INFORMATICUS, Brooklyn, NY 2016 Performances Sketches / Clara Diamond's Residency at Art/Life Institute, Kingston, NY 2015 The Q: Entity, The Art/Life Institute, Kingston, NY 2015 The Silent Mass Generator Workshop, Grace Exhibition Space Archive, Kingston, NY 2005 Mirror, Taylor Hall at Western State College University, Gunnison, CO 2002 What Do We Have? / Vanity / Death, Jaquelynne Brodeur & Nina Isabelle, The Gunnison Art Center, Gunnison, CO 1999 The Dischordant Student, Jewett Center, Salt Lake City, UT Video Production 2022 Documenting Process: Cai & Le Xi 2022 Documenting Process: Josh Babu 2022 Steve's Dream 2021 Documenting Process: Shola Cole AKA Pirate Jenny 2019 Documenting Process: Linda Mary Montano 2019 Documenting Process: The Architecture of a Stream by Valerie Sharp 2018 Documenting Process: Decompositions by Brian McCorkle 2018 Seemripper https://vimeo.com/296678389 2018 Video Manifestation System, Human Trash Dump, https://archive.org/details/htdc005 2016 The Eucharist Machine, 4:48, https://vimeo.com/189071199 2016 Certain Solutions For Solving Problems, 8:40, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltIadB4FuFI 2016 Domestic Loops, 6:20, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeEYUtCZbKY 2016 Mother Vs. God, 0:47, https://vimeo.com/176222556 2016 IBM- Tech City Re-Vision, 0:55 https://vimeo.com/182476408 2016 The Giant Candle - Environmental Healing Spell By Proxy, 2:43, https://vimeo.com/182594886 2016 Locational Trauma Transform, 2:54 https: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crlDcMZfy1M 2016 Performance Sketch at Art/Life Institute https://youtu.be/XzNUWDwvOTk 2016 The Story Of Terror / Ax In The Stump https://vimeo.com/176227354 2016 Building Connections https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YdGO-7zrSY 2016 C O D E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcxJ4pHX8WE 2015 Feeding The Entity https://vimeo.com/140719399 2015 Siblings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR4ErG0Khvc 2015 Q:Entity at Art/Life Institute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5joer_gcyKQ Curating / Hosting / Facilitating 2022- iEar Salon curatorial committee member, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 2021- 2022 Sound of Ceres- facilitate set construction & studio space for production of Emerald Sea 2022 - BIRTHDAYARAMA - Linda Mary Montano's 21 hr. Zoom Birthday Party 2021 Michelle Temple at Three Phase Center, Stone Ridge, NY 2021 Shola Cole- Drawing, Welding, & Construction for Time Travelers 2020 Notice Recording presents New Music & Free Jazz, Three Phase Center, Stone Ridge, NY 2020 Social Dissonance, Paul McMahon, Three Phase Center, Stone Ridge, NY 2019 FUTURE: Shola Cole AKA Pirate Jenny, Three Phase Center, Stone Ridge, NY 2019 Speed, Light, Motion & Gesture: Video Installation by Josh Babu, Three Phase Center, Stone Ridge, NY 2019 Infinity Within & Without, Cai Xi and Le Xi, Three Phase Center, Stone Ridge, NY 2019 Hurray! The Gland Doctors Graduate. Linda Mary Montano, Amanda Heidel, Arielle Ponder, Megumi Naganoma, and Lynn Herring 2019 The Undoing And Doing Collective, Three Phase Center, Stone Ridge, NY 2019 The Architecture of A Stream by Valerie Sharp, Three Phase Center, Stone Ridge, NY 2019 Public Vortex Weaving by Jennifer Zackin, Three Phase Center, Stone Ridge, NY 2018 The Malleability of Memory by Ernest Goodmaw, Three Phase Center, Stone Ridge, NY 2018 The Obstructionist: Empathy Blinders & Dramatic Object Making with Elizabeth Lamb & David Ian Bellows / Griess, Three Phase Center, Stone Ridge, NY 2018 Thinkers & Doers Feminist Workgroup with Ernest Goodmaw, Havarah Zawoluk and Anna Hafner, Three Phase Center, Stone Ridge, NY 2017 The Shirt Factory Centennial Performance & 3rd Floor Pop Up, The Shirt Factory, Kingston, NY 2016 Animal Maximalism Performances at Green Kill, Green Kill, NY 2016 Alice Teeple, Now Is Real, Star House Gallery, NY 2015 Owen Harvey, The Local Gallery, Kingston, NY 2015 Recent Paintings by Chad Gallion, Star House Gallery, Kingston, NY 2015 Through The Lens: The Sudbury Photo Show, Star House Gallery, Kingston, NY 2014 Adam & Jeff: An Abstract Painter and His Mentor, Star House Gallery, KIngston, NY 2014 Parallel Places: Owen Harvey / Michael Hunt, Star House Gallery, Kingston, NY 2014 The Cedar Tavern Phone Booth Show, Star House Gallery, Kingston, NY 2013 Isaac Abrams / Kelly Bickman, Star House Gallery, Kingston, NY 2013 Narrative, Star House Gallery, Kingston, NY 2013 Artist Talk: Kerry Mueller, Star House Gallery, Kingston, NY 2013 Diagnosis: Artist, Star House Gallery, Kingston, NY Awards/ Fellowship 2025 - The Malcolm S. Morse Graduate Research Enhancement Award 2022 - Rensselaer Graduate Fellowship Interviews - Widman, Theresa. "Nina Isabelle - Artist, Thinker, Observer." I want What She Has. 2 Aug. 2021. Podcast. - Beetle & Freedom Walker. The Black Meta- Psychic Self-Defense: Artist, Nina Isabelle" 4 May. 2021. Podcast. Radio Kingston WKNY. -Santullo, Kerry. “‘Meet The Makers - 5 Minutes with Artist Nina Isabelle.’ "Children's Museum of the Arts New York, 21 Oct. 2020, cmany.org/blog/view/5-minutes-artist-nina-isabelle/ . - Hynes Institute for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, and Danny Potocki. "E-talk with Nina A. Isabelle." YouTube. YouTube, 15 Oct. 2020. Web. 22 Dec. 2020. -"The Shape of a Feeling & the Language of Organizational Structures." The Esthetic Apostle. October 2019. Web https://www.estheticapostle.com/the-shape-of-a-feeling -https://www.greenearts.org/no-nudes-no-sunsets-a-photography-exhibition-opens-august-11/ - Varalla, Adriana. "12th Annual NYC Anarchist Art Festival." /anarchistbookfair.net/sites/default/files/Anarko%20Lab%202018%20PRESS%20RELEASE.pdf -Bresnan, Debra, "Activating Perception - Nina A. Isabelle." MAD Kingston. May 2017. Web -"GALERII Eesti Performance'i Grupp Non Grata Esines New Yorgi Anarhismi Festivalil."Õhtuleht. N.p., 24 May 2017. Web. 26 May 2017. - Elissa Garay, "Kingston: Capital of Culture." Chronogram. March 2017: p. Print. - Mills Messner, Heather. "Featured Artist Nina Isabelle." Aife Media Fall/Winter 2016: p.22-23. Print - Josh, Ryder, and Rutigliano Dario. "ARTiculAction Art Review // Special Issue." Issuu. Articulaction Art Review, Jan. 2016. Web. - Rutigliano, Dario, and Josh Ryder. "Nina Isabelle." ARTiculAction Art Review Jan. 2016: 124-49. Print. - Isabelle, Nina A. "Fashion Trends." Goodlife Youth Journal 5.1 (2016): p.20. Print. - George, James. "Nina Isabelle at Falls Church Arts, Bold & Bright." Arlington Art Examiner. 2014. Web. - Malcolm, Timothy. "Stumps For The Outsider." Record Online. Times Herald-Record, 13 Sept. 2013. Web. - Gussin, Bruce. "If It Isn't Not Broken Don't Unfix It." Blog post. Life and How to Live It. 5 Dec. 2010. Web. Residency 2006 Artist in Residence, Gunnison Art Center Summer Residency Program, Gunnison, CO Workshops 2018 Movement Metaphors Time Traveling Workshop, Healing + Art / Radical Domesticity, Kingston, NY 2017 Experimental Archery & Mark Making, Rosekill, Rosendale, NY 2017 Metaphors of Movement, Body Systems, Disease, and Society, Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY 2015 The Silent Mass Generator Workshop with Clara Diamond, GES Archive 411 Studio, Kingston, NY Teaching 2014-2016 Photography, Hudson Valley Sudbury School Photography CO-OP, Kingston, NY 2016 Art History & Ideas, HVSS Art History CO-OP, Kingston, NY 2016 Introduction to Digital Photography, The Shirt Factory, Kingston, NY 2003-2006 Modern Dance, Gunnison Arts Center, Gunnison, CO 2006 Oil Painting Workshop, Crested Butte Center of the Arts, Crested Butte, CO 2006 Oil Painting Workshop, Gunnison Arts Center, Gunnison, CO 1988-1990 Kids Photography and Dark Room, Woodward Camp, Woodward, PA References -https://cmany.org/blog/view/5-minutes-artist-nina-isabelle/ -Hynes Institute for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, and Danny Potocki. "E-talk with Nina A. Isabelle." YouTube. YouTube, 15 Oct. 2020. Web. 22 Dec. 2020. - anarchistbookfair.net -https://www.greenearts.org/no-nudes-no-sunsets-a-photography-exhibition http://www.greenearts.org/patricia-fields-artfashion-show-comes-to-catskill/ https://madkingston.org/2017/05/09/nina-a-isabelle/ http://us6.campaign-archive2.com/?u=9bbde55ac06fd4ebf2c0424ae&id=ef278b43c7 http://bangkokundergroundcinema.com/day-3-bridge/ https://justsituations.wordpress.com/ http://www.ivcastellanos.com/feminist-art-group/ http://romansusan.org/following/all/romansusan.org/Property https://madkingston.org/reframed-ritual-nina-isabelle-3715/ https://www.timeout.com/san-diego/things-to-do/the-dead-are-not-quiet-and-the-haunted-art-of-t-jefferson-carey http://artisbeing.com/blog/2016/9/28/san-diego-art-institute-the-dead-are-not-quiet-gallery-exhibiton https://greenkill.org/2016/10/12/nina-isabelle/ http://www.artlifekingston.com/blank-e19y5 http://cicamuseum.com/artist-and-location/ http://www.jennidachase.com/2016/09/21/sn-participates-in-the-cica-artist-location-exhibition-in-gyeonggi-do-korea/ HOME ABOUT PROJECTS HYPOTHETICAL PERFORMANCE TWO THINGS CRACK IN HALF WEST HALL OPEN STUDIO RINGING IN EARS PSYCHIC SELF DEFENSE SCULPTURE IMAGINED PERFORMANCE STORYTIME THE BODY DESCRIBES ITSELF MOSS ROCK CAGE TEN THOUSAND OBJECTIVES VOICES & CHOICES REMARKABLE NEW LOCATIONS ILLUMINATING INTANGIBLES SHAPE OF A FEELING SEEMRIPPER WE CAN'T TELL WHAT WE'RE DOING NEW SITUATIONS FORCE YOURSELF TO BE GOOD CITIZEN PARTICIPATION HYMN WARP TRANSDUCER VIDEO MANIFESTATION SYSTEM VMS USER ARCHIVE BEAST CONJURING BLACK BEDROOM CYBORGS & GENDER SHIRT FACTORY CENTENIAL CAVE GIRL FAMILY SOUNDS JUST SITUATIONS EXPERIMENTAL ARCHERY MOTHERING YARD WORK / YARD STUDIO THE GIANT DRESS OUT IN THE ZONE / ANARCHIST ART FAIR THE FABRIC OF WOMEN'S SPACE-TIME UNITY AT THE LACE MILL HILO CATSKILL OPENING BANGKOK UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL STAGES PROPERTY / ROMAN SUSAN MKUVM / MIND CONTROL RABBIT THE EUCHARIST MACHINE SALIENT MEMORY MANIPULATING PENDANT LAMP PAINTING 2017 TIME TRAVEL RESEARCH JSP PLUMBING COMMISSION SAN DIEGO ART INSTITUTE JOB // F.A.G. CZONG INSTITUTE / ARTISTS & LOCATION MOCK THE CHASM UMEWE INC. ANIMAL MAXIMALISM THE GIANT WEED WEB JURNQUIST COLORING BOOK SHOW IN BERLIN HYPERACTIVE INSTALLATION WOODSTOCK LIBRARY CHAIR LOCATIONAL TRAUMA TRANSFORMING TRAP WINDMILL WEAPON MATRON Q:ENTITY / Q:INFORMATICUS SUPERFUND RE-VISIONING PROJECT CERTAIN SOLUTIONS MOTHER VS. GOD SILENT MASS GENERATOR PAINTING 2016 C O D E ART/LIFE KINGSTON - CLARA & NINA THE PAIN PROJECT FEEDING THE ENTITY PAINTING 2015 THE RANDOM COMMUNITY GENERATOR HANDMADE BOOK SILVER GELATIN PRINTS (1989-1999) INTERVIEWS ACTIVATING PERCEPTION ARTICULACTION VIDEO CONTACT

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  • BEAST CONJURING | nina-isabelle

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Photo by Amelia Iaia Bouboushian, Isabelle, Peacock The Beast at Mothership Lorene Bouboushian, Nina Isabelle, Brian McCorkle, Linda Mary Montano, Ever Peacock, Miles Pflanz, and Jennifer Zackin. Photo by Amelia Iaia The "Beast Conjuring" performance intended to conjure and kill the sea beast from the book of Revelation. A group of artists and performers were invited to simultaneously interweave their own processes and intentions as a way to generate energies that might be focused toward the common goal of beast conjuring. Together the group worked to build and maximizing the physical, sensory, and psychic spaces that bind the internal and external dimensions of awareness through performative modes of sound making, movement, object construction, and ceremonial-like gestures in a process that became an inquiry into how a metaphoric conjure-and-kill scenario might translate or become useful in a literal dimension where such things are less possible-seeming. "Beast Conjuring" was performed within an installation including ten hand-fabricated crowns, ten cedar root horns dug from local woods, hand painted imagery of the seven-headed ten-horned beast, a suspended hand-sewn white linen angel, a reconstructed domestic scene from the home of an ex-evangelical and a giant edible Whore of Babylon cake as bait. 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  • CZONG INSTITUTE / ARTISTS & LOCATION | nina-isabelle

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    Nina A. Isabelle is a multidisciplinary artist working with abstract painting, performance art, video, photography, sound, and sculpture. HOME ABOUT PROJECTS More... C O D E February 22, 2016 In response to Apple’s battle with the FBI over a federal order to unlock the iPhone of a mass shooter, C O D E looks at the differences between humans and machines and the difference between how these systems reveal or encrypt data through programming and intention.

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  • STAGES / Clara Diamond / Nina A. Isabelle /Valerie Sharp / GREENKILL

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  • YARD WORK / Nina A. Isabelle

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  • PSYCHIC SELF DEFENSE SCULPTURE | nina-isabelle

    Inspired by Dion Fortune's Psychic Self-Defense: The Classic Instruction Manual for Protecting Yourself Against Paranormal Attack published in 1930, I carved a 15' wooden stake from a white pine tree removed from my property and designed a welded steel foundation to support and direct its potential in a specific way. HOME ABOUT PROJECTS More... PSYCHIC SELF DEFENSE GIANT WOODEN STAKE FOR DESTROYING PSYCHIC VAMPIRES Inspired by Dion Fortune's Psychic Self-Defense: The Classic Instruction Manual for Protecting Yourself Against Paranormal Attack published in 1930, I carved an 11' wooden stake from a white pine tree removed from my property and designed a welded steel foundation to support and direct its potential in a specific way. There was a nearly dead forty-five foot tall white pine tree on my property that I needed to remove because it was next to a home with a newborn. I was overwhelmed by its potential for destruction as well as the terror at having to take responsibility. I feared it might smash a building or kill someone but I felt frozen to take action. Normally, I figure out a way to do things myself, but in this case I knew I had no ability to take down such a tree and I was having trouble finding a tree service who was able to schedule the job during the pandemic. I was also paralyzed by the thought of the expense. I wanted to run away, but knew I had to transform my fear and helplessness. I had the idea to approach the problem as an art project as a way to reconnect with my boldness and to remember the feeling of embodying initiative. Once I realized that I could apply methods from my art practice to this life circumstance, art became my teacher, and I began to hear the tree speaking to me saying "Look at me, I'm a giant wooden stake and I want to help you!" At the same time, I was rereading Dion Fortune's book Psychic Self-Defense: The Classic Instruction Manual for Protecting Yourself Against Paranormal Attack published in 1930 where she discusses the literal manifestation of vampiric energies and vampires themselves as people, circumstances, experiences, and entities that deplete us for their own gain. I had read the book as a young person and was now surprised to realize how her description of this system had maintained its relevance and how it paralleled the language of healthy boundaries as discussed in contemporary psychology. Vampiric energies accumulate through life experiences and interactions with other people and entities who intentionally or not connect their psyche to us. Unhealthy past relationships, traumas, and global events like the pandemic have the potential to develop longterm harmful effects on our beings and we need to develop tools to combat this dynamic. Thinking and working this way is one way art processes can help us. I designed, built, and activated the tree into a large healing tool sculpture that can neutralize the effects of psychic vampirism and other unhealthy energetic connections that impact our wellbeing. To start, I stripped the bark off of an eleven-foot length of the white pine and my son helped me with his chainsaw to carve one end into a sharp point. The base is a prism made of two welded steel equilateral triangle structures that elevate and position the point of the sculpture directly at heart level maximizing its power to blast away the psychic and etheric connections one inadvertently accumulates throughout life. The sculpture is a giant cleansing machine. It targets etheric and energetic fields and tethers that become attached to ones outer bodies over time. It's meant to cleanse the outer bodies by obliterating unhealthy energies and connections, prohibit vampiric energies from sinking their fangs into the many dimensions of our psychic, physical, mental and emotional spheres, and to destroy the parasitic relationship dynamic vampires establish and maintain with our physical host bodies against our will and awareness. The sculpture is interactive. People were invited to stand in front of it, connect with its design, and have their own healing experience. MAY 1 - 29, 2021 ART/LIFE INSTITUTE 185 ABEEL ST. KINGSTON, NY OPENING MAY 1st 6:PM - 9:PM MID-MONTH RECEPTION - MAY 15th 6:PM - 9:PM CLOSING EVENT MAY 29th - 6:PM - 6:PM

  • Nina A. Isabelle // The Pain Project

    Nina A. Isabelle is a multidisciplinary artist working with abstract painting, performance art, video, photography, sound, and sculpture. HOME ABOUT PROJECTS More... THE PAIN PROJECT MARCH 2015 The Pain Project revisits eight physical injuries and is meant as an exploration of where pain is held in the physical body and how it changes with time. Each piece was made by applying paint to paper using the affected body parts. 3rd Metacarpal of Left Hand , 44x36, tempera paint on paper Broken 3rd Metacarpal of Lett Hand: When I was in 3rd grade I broke the 3rd metacarpal on my left hand doing a back-handspring on the trampoline at The Nittany Gymnastics School in State College, PA. Initially I thought that I had just cracked my knuckle in a painful way but later that day when I was asked by my instructor to do a glide kip on the bars I noticed that there was a sharp pain in my hand. My instructor assumed that I was lying in order to get out of class. I felt conflicted by her accusation, so I tried to swing from the bars again but it was still painful. Was I imagining it? Maybe I just hated doing gymnastics? I began to question my perception of pain within my physical body, I couldn’t tell if I was hurt. That night I told my Mom that I thought I had hurt my hand. She said she would take me to have an x-ray in the morning, but my Dad told her it was not broken, there wasn’t enough swelling, to leave me alone and it would be fine. They fought about it but she took me anyway and it turned out to be broken. They wrapped it up with a plaster cast. Frontalis Bone , 44x36, tempera paint on paper Multiple Concussions: Due to skateboarding and snowboarding I have been knocked unconscious several times. Once I hung up and fell to my head on a mini-ramp and was knocked out for several seconds. When I opened my eyes a man who was there said “Don’t move, I’m going to get your Dad.” I didn’t move. When the man came back he said, “Your Dad says to get up, that you’ll be fine.” The first time I dropped in on a vert ramp everyone told me, “Make sure you lean forward!” I dove from the top of the 12 foot ramp to the bottom, landing head first. I felt dizzy and was giddy but thought it would be a good idea if I tried again. Everyone was yelling “just sit down, don’t get up!” I tried again. On the way home I felt nauseous, my friend had to drive, I threw up on the side of the road. The worst time was when I dropped in on an 7 foot quarter pipe that went onto an asphalt street course. My wheel ran into a piece of gravel and it caused my board to stop rolling, I fell right onto the front of my head. Right in my hairline, directly above my right eye, a large lump instantly grew straight out of my skull, like when cartoon characters get hit with a bat. I had a lump that was as tall as a spool of thread sticking straight out of my head, like a horn! I couldn’t stop laughing, time was distorted, I was delirious. The person I was with took me to the E.R. I had a concussion, they said to wake me up every two hours. The lump turned to dark colors, and then eventually drained into both my eye sockets. I had two black eyes, like a raccoon. I was in Art school at the time, my painting teacher took me aside and asked if I was experiencing domestic violence, he was convinced that my boyfriend was beating me, I couldn’t stop laughing. My skull is indented in that spot. To this day If I touch it with my finger my heart starts racing and my throat clenches shut and it becomes hard to breath. Right Hip , 44x36, tempera paint on paper Multiple contusions on right thigh, inferior lateral aspect of the greater trochanter of femur : At age 14 I was doing a balance beam trick called a Gainer Layout Step, where you sort of fling yourself up in the air and do a no-handed flip and land on one foot. I missed my landing foot and landed on the lateral aspect of my thigh resulting in a giant black and blue mark. Shortly after that I was required to have a physical for school, the nurses saw my bruises and asked if I “had a happy home life.” They sent me to the school counselor who asked me if I drank or used drugs or if I had been exposed to domestic violence. She didn’t believe my answer, that I had “fallen off a balance beam.” Many years later, I was doing a 50/50 grind around a bowl corner on my skateboard, and when I went to go back in my back trucks hung up on the coping, causing me to slam into the bottom of the 5 foot deep bowl with full force, directly onto my right hip. It swelled up instantly, looking like an enormous raspberry scone stuck to my thigh. Blood and yellow fluid began to push out of my pores and flow down my leg. I’d wake up with the bed sheets stuck to my thigh each night, eventually there was a scab the size of my entire hand. My thigh was swollen fat and wiggly like it was full of jello. I couldn’t put on pants and had to wear skirts for weeks, I had an unbelievably huge and disgusting scabby, black-and-blue thigh. To this day, over 20 years later, I still have a lump of scar tissue the size of a small lemon inside my lateral thigh. It is still surprisingly painful to touch. I call it my “perma-bruise.” Lateral Malleolus of Right Fibula , 44x36, tempera paint on paper Undiscovered Broken Lateral Malleolus of the Right Fibula : I had sprained my right ankle several times doing gymnastics, it usually took 3-4 week to feel completely better. The usual protocol involved sticking my foot in a bucket of ice water several times a day, continuing to try to walk on it so that I wouldn’t loose mobility, and wrapping it tightly with athletic tape so that I could get back to training as soon as possible. I had been through this injury several times. When I was 15 I took up skateboarding instead of gymnastics. One time I dropped in off of a ledge that went to a bank and my front right foot rolled under. I wound up landing on top of my crumpled foot with all of my weight from several feet in the air. It was so painful, I was frozen and unable to make a sound or move. Nobody in the crowded building recognized that I was injured. I slowly and quietly moved myself across the concrete floor toward the exit and crawled on one knee with my ankle in the air, very delicately and smoothly, down the hill to where the athletic trainers were. They looked at my ankle and said I would need to get an x-ray, then I was given a ride home. I called my Dad, who said “No, you don’t need an x-ray, it’s probably just a bad sprain, just ice it.” 4 weeks had gone by and I was still not able to put much weight on my foot. I kept trying to walk normally, and just wrapped it up tightly with athletic tape. It was over 2 months before I could walk without pain. My boss and other people implied that I was faking an injury for special attention, so I made a point to conceal my pain. When I was 36 I sprained my ankle again while bouldering. I had it x-rayed and they said, “It’s not broken now, but we can see where it has been broken previously in several places.” My ankle has never recovered from this, it is extremely sensitive and I can’t allow anything to touch it, the lightest tap makes me yelp. Dragging it across the paper for this project was excruciating, I almost cried. This injury is 18 years old and has not left my body yet. Occipital Bone , 44x36, tempera paint on paper Bad Neck Injury: I’m not sure what happened to my neck. I over-rotated a double back flip on the trampoline and was about to land on the back of my head. My friend dove toward me to stop my rotation before I landed but his fist wound up right in the back of my neck when I landed with my feet crumpling over the top of my body. My entire head and neck were tingling and making crackling sounds, it felt like fluid had been blasted up my nose. I crawled off the trampoline and took myself home. I took some Advil, put a bag of frozen peas on my neck and tried to sleep. I couldn't move for days, the phone had been ringing but I couldn't get to it. I finally crawled to the kitchen 2 days later to eat, but wound up on the floor in pain. I made an appointment with a chiropractor but he needed to see an x-ray. I didn't have insurance so I just waited for it to get better. I have a lump the size of a walnut at base of my occipital bone on my right side. It hasn’t gone away yet, sometimes I have sharp, shooting pains if I turn my head a certain way. Contusions on Lungs , 44x36, tempera paint on paper Contusions on Lungs, Cracked Tooth: When I was 16 I was snowboarding on an icy slope with my friend. Something happened and I wound up in the air face-first and landed on my chest and face. I knocked the wind out of myself and banged the front of my face and head onto the ice. I started laughing really hard, blood gurgled up from my throat and sprayed onto the snow, then I spat a tooth into my mitten, I couldn’t stop laughing. My friend asked if I was okay and I couldn’t stop laughing, I said that I was okay, but he took me to the hospital. They x-rayed my lungs because of the blood coming out of my throat, it had a contusion. The next day I went to the dentist and he made me a new tooth out of putty, I still have it. Lateral Deltoid 44x36, tempera paint on paper Separated Right Shoulder: When I was 16 I was skateboarding on a 5 foot mini ramp inside of a metal building near my home. My back trucks hung up on the coping and I fell to the flat bottom landing on my shoulder. I tried to leave the building but couldn't open the door because I needed to hold my right arm onto my body with my left arm. I tried for a while to open the door with my foot, or to unlatch and slide the barn doors open with my legs. Eventually I managed to open the door and walked home. My parents were upset with me for being late for dinner. My Dad gave me a sling for my arm, and we tied my arm to my torso for several days until it tightened back onto my body. Sacrum / Coccyx , 44x36, tempera paint on paper Possible broken or subluxed coccyx or sacrum: My skateboard slid out from under me and I landed on my tail bone on a metal pipe. I was able to get home and go to bed. In the morning I was in so much pain, I couldn't stand upright. I walked slowly, bent over all the way, to the bathroom, then back to my bed. My parents didn’t know I was hurt. They kept yelling for me to “Make sure you don’t miss dinner at camp, we don’t have any food at the house!” I couldn’t get out of bed, I was so hungry. I never saw a doctor.

  • Roman Susan // PROPERTY // RPWRHS // Nina A. Isabelle

    Nina A. Isabelle is a multidisciplinary artist working with abstract painting, performance art, video, photography, sound, and sculpture. HOME ABOUT PROJECTS More... PROPERTY ROMAN SUSAN & ROGERS PARK / WEST RIDGE HISTORICAL SOCIETY APRIL 1, 2017 TELLERS I The women and girls from St. Henry's First Communion at 6235 N Hoyne Ave predict the future of the Devon Bank at 6445 N Western Avenue. 20x30 NINA A. ISABELLE February 2017 TELLERS II The women and girls from St. Henry's First Communion at 6235 N Hoyne Ave predict the future of the Devon Bank at 6445 N Western Avenue. 20x30 NINA A. ISABELLE February 2017 ALONG THE WAY Streicher and friends have been displaced. Transported by a drunken maritime time traveling expedition, the three men find themselves near the Chicago surface line sign at 2100 W Touhy Avenue. Peter Van Iderstein's boat, launched at at Greenleaf Avenue and Lake Michigan, has been repurposed as a time traveling vessel. NINA A. ISABELLE 20x30 February 2017 Roman Susan Art Foundation and the Rogers Park/West Ridge Historical Society will present a collaborative exhibit in Spring 2017 reflecting the way neighborhoods emerge and change as a result of land development. For this project, the Historical Society has placed 100 images from the Rogers Park/West Ridge photography archive into the creative commons. The exhibition will include repurposed and reimagined responses to the historical photographic archive. View the full selection of images dating from 1870 to 2005 here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/rpwrhs/sets/72157676302462950/ The selection of original images include photographs donated to the Historical Society from the collections of Leonard and Lillian Adler, Katherine Allen (née Dittmar), LeRoy Blommaert, Lillian M. Campbell, Ann Davis Dix, Gail Donovan, Paul and Jean Einsweiler, Fred Elisius, Dorothy Ferguson, Stephen C. Ferguson, Howard Frink, John Peter Geroulis, Ken Gustafson, Elizabeth Habman, Gladys Hoaglund (née Van Iderstein), Maryl Hook, Leslie Keeling (née Pollard), Anthony Kingman, James and Sally Kirkpatrick, Carmen Lara, Rasmus Larson, James C. McCabe, J. Curtis Mitchell, William Morton, Margaret Mary Muno, Marcella Polonsky, Jean R. Price, Sidney and Ann Rockin, Marie Roti (née Bornhofen), Richard Schaul, Grant Schmalgemeier, Marty Schmidt, Toni Sherman (née Albanese), George and Margot Striecher, Mel Thillens, Sr., Ceal Thinnes, Mary Thiry (née Mertens), Albert and Loretta Weimeskirch, Gerald Wester, John Winkin, the American Legion Rogers Park Post #108, Angel Guardian Orphanage, B'nai Zion Synagogue, George Buchanan Armstrong School of International Studies, Cook County Federal Savings & Loan, Devon Bank, Mundelein College (Loyola University Chicago), North Town Public Library, Rogers Park Women's Club, Philip Rogers School, RREEF Management Company, S&C Electric Company, St. Margaret Mary Archives, and Sullivan High School. Tellers I The women and girls from St. Henry's First Communion at 6235 N Hoyne Ave predict the future of The Devon Bank at 6445 N Western Avenue. Tellers II The women and girls from St. Henry's First Communion at 6235 N Hoyne Ave predict the future of The Devon Bank at 6445 N Western Avenue. Along The Way Streicher and friends have been displaced. Transported by a drunken maritime time traveling expedition, the three men find themselves near the Chicago surface line sign at 2100 W Touhy Avenue. Peter Van Iderstein's boat, launched at at Greenleaf Avenue and Lake Michigan, has been repurposed as a time traveling vessel.

  • MOTHERING / Nina A. Isabelle

    MOTHERING looks at a child's nonverbal perception of the unspoken or hidden in relation to the improbability of a hierarchal god or mother. Multilayered family HOME ABOUT PROJECTS More... MOTHERING NINA A. ISABELLE, EVER Z. PEACOCK, & SYLVIA ROSEKILL PERFORMANCE ART FARM ROSENDALE, NY JUNE 3, 2017 MOTHERING looks at a child's nonverbal perception of the unspoken or hidden in relation to the improbability of a hierarchal god or mother. Multilayered family video and sound are projected onto a quasi-defunct Airstream trailer behind the south barn at Rosekill Performance Art Farm while Mother and Son perform with gestural sound-loops and shrouded interpretive movement.

  • TWO THINGS CRACK IN HALF | nina-isabelle

    HOME ABOUT PROJECTS More... TWO THINGS CRACK IN HALF A Griswold Cast Iron pan from 1947 that belonged to my grandmother and a 500 ml Luminarc Working Glass both cracked in half in my kitchen on the same day. On December 27, 2022, I performed a photographic study and documentation of the objects. On February 20, 2023, I interviewed ChatGPT to help me understand. View & download full-color 30 page document here:

  • WEST HALL OPEN STUDIO | nina-isabelle

    HOME ABOUT PROJECTS More... WEST HALL OPEN STUDIO RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE TROY, NY DECEMBER 11, 2022

  • REMARKABLE NEW LOCATIONS | nina-isabelle

    HOME ABOUT PROJECTS More... REMARKABLE NEW LOCATIONS Nye Ffarrabas & Nina Isabelle CX Silver Gallery, May- June 2019 Remarkable New Locations is a series of interactive art objects inspired by Nye Ffarrabas's poetry and produced by Nina Isabelle using a car as a printing press. The objects are interactive as they invite the viewer to engage in marking and remaking the dry erase surface as a way to facilitate perceptions of process, language, and action. The printing process involved inking each plate individually and pressing it into each sheet by driving a car over it to emboss the plate image into the saturated paper. Each piece was rolled over ten times with a car revealing various degrees of chance in the imagery. The original monoprint plate was produced using hand-etched plexiglass. Using black printmaking ink on 100% cotton 22x30 Arches 88 printmaking paper, the prints were individually processed, then hand painted using ink, gouache, and acrylic paint to highlight and color code the vowels using purple As, yellow Es, orange Is, blue Os, and green Us. The final layer is a hand cut transparent material affixed to the image surface machine stitched with orange thread. Nye Ffarrabas (formerly Bici Forbes and Bici Hendricks) has been an artist for 60 years and a poet for 80. She participated in Happenings beginning in 1961, as part of the Fluxus scene. In 1962 she interviewed several artists including Roy Lichtenstein, Bob Watts and Ivan Karp. In 1965, she established her own publishing company, the Black Thumb Press. Nye/Bici had her first solo show at Judson Gallery in 1966 and the next year performed Ordeals with Carolee Schneemann. In the 60s and 70s, Nye/Bici participated in many of the Annual Avant Garde Festival of New York events coordinated by Charlotte Moorman. Starting in 1964, Nye/Bici compiled journals as conceptual art with Geoff Hendricks, a series known as The Friday Book of White Noise which contains many seeds for her event scores. In 2019 Nye completed a mobius-strip-shaped infinite event score as a performance, installation and wall-piece.

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