Glowing Heads
Nina Childress
Schedule
Thursday, September 5, 2024 - Friday, January 3, 2025
Opening Reception on September 5, 6-8pm
A living embodiment of American-French cultural exchange, the artist Nina Childress—born in the US, working in France, and recently inducted into the Académie des Beaux-Arts—takes over L’Alliance New York’s public spaces with Glowing Heads, phosphorescent paintings presented in dark and Ultraviolet light. Combining a fluorescent pop sensibility with a gritty, punk-feminist reading of female representation in Western art history, Childress’ works illuminate L’Alliance New York’s lobby and gallery spaces, offering audiences an unprecedented view of the artist’s sly engagement with portraiture.
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Nina Childress
Nina Childress (born 1961 in Pasadena, CA) is one of the most renowned and celebrated French painters of her generation. Always reinventing herself and embracing all modes of representation, Childress has explored painting in abstraction and hyperrealism, magnified everyday objects, and created introspective self-portraits.
Childress studied at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris (ENSAD), and at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts de Paris, where she currently teaches and was appointed Chairman in 2019. In 2021, she was nominated for the Chevalier of the Legion of Honor for her career in the arts. Childress’ work has been shown nationally and internationally, most notably at MAMCO (Geneva), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain (Sète), Fondation d’entreprise Ricard (Paris), FRAC Limousin-Artothèque (Limoges), and FRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA (Bordeaux) where she had a major retrospective in 2022.
In March 2024, Nina Childress was one of the first women ever elected at l’Académie des Beaux-Arts in the painting section. Childress’ monograph, 1081 Peintures, has a phosphorescent cover and displays a chronological account of her entire body of work from 1980-2021; a biography written by Fabienne Radi accompanies it. This double monograph will be displayed and for sale throughout the Glowing Heads exhibition at L’Alliance New York.
Support for Crossing the Line


and The Wescustogo Foundation
Support for dance programming in Crossing the Line from The Harkness Foundation for Dance
L’Alliance New York’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the Support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
Photo Credit:
Nina Childress ©Philippe Jarrigeon
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