Nabil Aasiya-bey
I am a Los Angeles based self-taught artist. My practice involves a combination of conceptualization and abstraction that has largely to do with the nature of reality and how our mind perceives reality. I am represented by Revealed Gallery in Charleston South Carolina and have had a pop-up exhibition this past spring at a local coffee shop and currently exploring opportunities on a grander scale to showcase my work to the public.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
My practice focuses on a conceptual framework in which painting is used to convey the energy and metaphysics of the universe. Each painted is much like a meditative device that can be used to charge a space or to trigger the divine consciousness within the viewer. The fact that our consciousness constructs reality is very important in understanding anything in the world. For that reason my work seeks to inspire introspection in the vast nature of the self. From that place of deep knowing we can all come to see the world as a wonderful and miraculous experience we call life.
My work has followed the philosophic insights of Minimalism and Opt Art, yet extrapolated from both camps by focusing on the spiritual, metaphysical and psychological aspects of the human experience.
I am a Los Angeles based self-taught artist. My practice involves a combination of conceptualization and abstraction that has largely to do with the nature of reality and how our mind perceives reality. I am represented by Revealed Gallery in Charleston South Carolina and have had a pop-up exhibition this past spring at a local coffee shop and currently exploring opportunities on a grander scale to showcase my work to the public.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
My practice focuses on a conceptual framework in which painting is used to convey the energy and metaphysics of the universe. Each painted is much like a meditative device that can be used to charge a space or to trigger the divine consciousness within the viewer. The fact that our consciousness constructs reality is very important in understanding anything in the world. For that reason my work seeks to inspire introspection in the vast nature of the self. From that place of deep knowing we can all come to see the world as a wonderful and miraculous experience we call life.
My work has followed the philosophic insights of Minimalism and Opt Art, yet extrapolated from both camps by focusing on the spiritual, metaphysical and psychological aspects of the human experience.
$3,705.00
Acrylic on wood.
36x36x2"
This painting is an early example of my chakra series.
$3,705.00
Acrylic on wood.
36x36x2"
The title for the work references a concept in Dune, (one of my favorite series of all time) known as other memory and collective memory. The secret society known as the Bene Gesserit have the ability to access memories from their ancestors and to share information with each other upon death. The painting is also a reimagination of my piece "Oro".
$550.00
Acrylic on wood.
8x8x1.50"
As someone who really loves green and blue I titled this small work Lapis and Lime.
$715.00
Acrylic on wood.
12x12x1.50"
This painting is a smaller version of the "Color is Qualia".
$1,430.00
Acrylic on wood.
12x12x1.50"
The title is once again, a reference of concepts discussed in quantum field theory like how everything comes from this invisible field. Additionally, the title also denotes deals the concept of emptiness in Buddhism which states that nothing has an intrinsic self because of the interdependence of all phenomena. In other words, because all phenomena in the universe is dependent on causes and conditions of other phenomena nothing can be said to have a "separate" identity or existence. I also liken the title to the Yucca plant as I see beautiful ombres of color on the plant when I go hiking in the mountains.
$1,430.00
Acrylic on wood.
12x12x1.50"
This is one of my favorite pieces this year as it was the first time I used purple as a center color and faded it into red-violet then to red and so on. As apart of my chakra series I wanted to use purple which is considered the crown chakra as the center to indicate moving from our highest self to other aspects of the chakra system. The title references something in quantum physics known as qualia, which represents all phenomena in nature or the cosmos which comes into existence from the quantum field.
$2,570.00
Acrylic on wood.
30x30x2"
The painting is a geometric pattern that allows the wood to show through in between the pattern. The pattern itself represents all dimensions of reality and phenomena contained within it, while the space in between represents the quantum field or space. I titled the painting "Oro", which means gold in Spanish because I felt like I had struck gold with this particular piece which is the progenitor of my current body of work. The conceptualization of the work and the work itself is the first demonstration of my philosophic lens as an abstract artist. Extrapolating from the Minimalist art movement and the Opt art movement, my work emphasizes that consciousness constructs reality. Therefore my work is not just painting on a wood panel (an ideology promoted by Frank Stella in the Minimalist movement), but an invitation to analyze the inner workings of the mind which co-creates our universe.
$3,705.00
Acrylic on wood.
36x36x2"
With this particular painting I was struck by the many different colors of yellow I would see on my walks in nature and throughout the city in LA. The warmth of the color was something I associated with love. Even though we think of love as represented by roses and typically pink, yellow seemed to be speaking to me. Yellow is actually associated with intelligence and so I put two in two together to realize that love does come from a certain level of conceptual thinking in that we can broaden our scope and ability to "love" by not restricting love to one particular place or thing; or even an ideology or philosophy.
$2,570.00
Acrylic on wood.
30x30x2"
This painting marks the beginning of my Chakra series which references the metaphysical bodies that govern our mind-body. Each color represents a chakra starting with red which is considered the root all the way up to the crown chakra. The transition from one color to the next is in relation to the flow of energy and how each color or metaphysical trait of the chakra is in balance with the one closest to it. Some days the viewer might focus on one color over another depending on the mood or need at the time.
$2,570.00
Acrylic paint marker on wood.
30x30x2"
The inspiration behind this work was to create a subtle piece that really felt minimalistic, in the sense of simplicity. The title of the piece further emphasizes that because cotton candy more or less just dissolves in your mouth. The abstract is a repeating patter of colors where one of the colors is a metallic teal that glitters up close. A piece that is hard to photograph because of how subtle it is but one that I find to be pleasing in its softness.
$1,645.00
Acrylic paint marker on wood.
24x24x2"
The title of this piece is inspired by one of my favorite books on spirituality of all time, "The Seat of the Soul", by Gary Zukav.