Art Personals

Art Personals

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Art Personals episodes

  • Nick Nazmi Describes Grant Wood

    Nick Nazmi (b. Chicago, 1991) creates an array of paintings and drawings in which apparitions, lost souls, and characters in a book are stuck in their nostalgia for a time and place that is no longer accessible. His work is influenced heavily by Persian folklore and the poetry of his father and grandfather from Iran. Nazmi lives in Brooklyn, New York.

    The paintings he describes in this episode are:

    • Grant Wood (American, 1891–1942)
      • Death on Ridge Road
      1935
      Oil on masonite
      32 ⅛” × 39 1/16” × 1 5/16”
      Williams College Museum of Art
      Gift of Cole Porter
    • Stone City, Iowa
      • oil on wood panel
      30¼ x 40”
      Joslyn Art Museum
      Gift of the Art Institute of Omaha, 1930.35; Art © Estate of Grant Wood/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
      12 min

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    We ask some of our favorite artists to describe another artist’s work as best they can, with only their words and sounds. Produced by Compound Yucca Valley, an art and event space near Joshua Tree,…