Nina Chanel Abney: Big Butch Energy/Synergy room Nina Chanel Abney was born

Nina Chanel Abney was born in 1982 in Harvey

Double-wicked and housed in white textured boxes and screenprinted glass tumblers

This bowl is hand thrown with low-fire earthenware

Gary Simmons was born in 1964 in New York City

Nina Chanel Abney: Big Butch Energy/Synergy room Nina Chanel Abney was bornCombining representation and abstraction, Abney's vibrant works reference gender, sexuality and pop culture Committed to sharing social realities through fantastic, expansive forms, Nina Chanel Abney is an artist possessed of an iconic style and wit. Through stylized, cubistic and highly charged painterly symbols, she references radical traditions of graphic design and street art to communicate urgent political and cultural realities with immediacy to