Quick Facts
Biography
Nava Lubelski (born 1968 in New York City) is a contemporary artist who currently works and lives in Asheville, NC.
Background
Nava Lubelski was born and grew up in the SoHo section of New York City. She graduated from Hunter College High School in Manhattan in 1986 and earned a BA in Russian Literature and History from Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT in 1990. She spent a year abroad as a student in Moscow, Russia.
Lubelski authored The Starving Artist's Way and is a 2008 grantee of The Pollock Krasner Foundation.
Style
Examples of her stitched work were included in Pricked: Extreme Embroidery at The Museum of Arts & Design in New York and in the book Contemporary Textiles: The Fabric of Fine Art, published in 2008 by Black Dog Publishing in London. Lubelski's 2009 solo show, Recombination, at the New York City gallery LMAKprojects was reviewed in The New York Times by Karen Rosenberg, who described Lubelski as being "in a category of artists who “paint” with thread." Lubelski is also known for a series of flattened sculptures made from shredded and cut paper.
Galleries
- LMAKprojects in New York
- OHT Gallery in Boston