NATIONALE

Ty Ennis // Innerbloom

’ fourth solo exhibition at Nationale is now on view in the front gallery and the project room 🌱

Please join us this Saturday (3–5pm) for the artist reception. Can’t wait to share this new body of work with everyone 💚

Amy Bay’s majestic painting, Such a Queen, has been stealing many hearts at the gallery this week. Beautifully captured here by with all the juicy details.

“Bay’s use of classical oil painting techniques like imprimatura, glazing, and sgraffito adds complexity to subjects that would conventionally be depicted through restrained colors and simplified lines. What began as flat wallpaper starts to hint at depth, opening into hazy landscape-like spaces, with heavily textured surfaces that evoke the accumulation of emotion, memory, and tradition through decades of life.

Noting the use of floral motifs as symbols for a vast range of ideas including “affection, sadness, sympathy, revulsion, desire, death, the quotidian,” Bay reminds the viewer that paintings of flowers “are rarely about one particular thing.” Her titles reflect the multitude of associations that emerge throughout the creation of a painting, and that each viewer might bring to the work themselves.” — Martha Daghlian

Such a Queen, 2022, oil and wax on canvas over panel, 46 x 48 inches, framed by

Thrilled this piece will be in a private collection in Portland, OR, and cherished every day. Congrats, 💛