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Nikolas Gambaroff — New York Stock Exchange
Nikolas Gambaroff

New York Stock Exchange

A sheet of newsprint is adhered to canvas and layered with acrylic paint, creating a tension between the raw immediacy of printed media and the deliberate hand of painting. Gambaroff's work nods to the New York Stock Exchange as a site of information overload and financial spectacle, embedding the ephemeral language of daily news into a more permanent art object. The result is a cool, conceptually dry piece that plays with ideas of value, circulation, and the material life of images.

Medium
newsprint, adhesive, acrylic on canvas

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December 9, 2015

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Nikolas Gambaroff, New York Stock Exchange

A sheet of newsprint is adhered to canvas and layered with acrylic paint, creating a tension between the raw immediacy of printed media and the deliberate hand of painting. Gambaroff's work nods to the New York Stock Exchange as a site of information overload and financial spectacle, embedding the ephemeral language of daily news into a more permanent art object. The result is a cool, conceptually dry piece that plays with ideas of value, circulation, and the material life of images.

Medium
newsprint, adhesive, acrylic on canvas
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Financial Imagery, Abstract Art, German Artist, Acrylic On Canvas, Male Artist, Mixed Media, Conceptual Art, Emerging Artist, Contemporary Artist, Muted Tones, Canvas, Urban Subject Matter, Newsprint And Acrylic, Contemporary Art, Collage On Canvas, Neutral Tones, Urban Commentary, Newsprint Collage, Abstract, Text-Based Art