After years of working as a representational painter, Nubia began to experiment intuitively with acrylics. Drawing on her personal history as well as meditation practices, reading and travels, she brings a fresh vision of the world through her abstracted imagery and layered use of the medium. The artist paints in the tradition of Helen Frakenthaler, Dorothy Hood and modern abstract painters.
Nubia uses the power and universality of color to communicate with the viewer. She begins her abstract process by layering color through direct painting on canvas. Small touches left alone, unexpected images, and color combinations emerge, beginning a relationship with the artist’s psyche and emotions.
The juxtaposition of the opacity of the one color (ochre, for instance) and the translucency of another (alizarin crimson, for one) serves to open perceived windows to the soul of the work. History, psychology, spirituality and mysticism are evoked by color and mark-making. Her paintings contract and expand, hum and vibrate with the rhythms of her world.
Nubia is an inventive colorist, using the hues of her palette to evoke an emotional response from the viewer who is drawn to explore implied imagery in fields of color. These unexpected points of reference lead to narratives invented by the viewer. When this occurs, the artist believes she has fulfilled her purpose.