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NATIONALE Nationale is an art space and bookshop established in 2008

Ty Ennis // Innerbloom’ fourth solo exhibition at Nationale is now on view in the front gallery and the project room 🌱Pl...
09/14/2023

Ty Ennis // Innerbloom

’ fourth solo exhibition at Nationale is now on view in the front gallery and the project room 🌱

Please join us this Saturday (3–5pm) for the artist reception. Can’t wait to share this new body of work with everyone 💚

In Amy Bay’s debut solo exhibition at Nationale, sets of “twinned” paintings are close yet not quite identical—their sim...
07/05/2023

In Amy Bay’s debut solo exhibition at Nationale, sets of “twinned” paintings are close yet not quite identical—their similarities only serve to highlight their differences. In Tis the Last Rose of Summer, and Left Blooming Alone, emerald foliage and wine-colored vines echo each other across the two canvases. A cloud of pink flowers wraps around the pictures’ edges, revealing a quasi-photographic haze that evokes a distant landscape. The typically static and repetitive patterns that Bay uses as reference points, many derived from antique wallpaper and textiles, become subtly animated and hint at hidden depths behind their flat surfaces.

Join us for an artist talk with the incredible and learn more about her unique painting process and the histories behind her images of flowers, this Thursday, July 6th at 5pm at Nationale.

See Amy Bay’s floral twins in the last week of her show, They Always Have, and Still Do, on view through July 9.

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The glowing compositions in California-based artist Dennis Foster’s “Wake Up New” evoke the feeling of “driving along th...
06/29/2023

The glowing compositions in California-based artist Dennis Foster’s “Wake Up New” evoke the feeling of “driving along the coastal regions of Ventura and Northern Malibu outside of Los Angeles,” where “if traveling in the evening time, in the right direction, one can follow the sun falling until it finally rests.”
Paintings like “Comes and Goes,” featured here, suggest travel through time and landscapes, through crisp geometric shapes and saturated, matte colors.

, “Comes and Goes,” 2023, Flashe and acrylic on canvas, 20 x 16 inches

DM for an updated checklist. The exhibition is on view in the Project Room through August 20, 2023❗️

Inspiring studio visit with gallery artist Francesca Capone last week 🪡 Always a treat spending time with you, , and plo...
06/28/2023

Inspiring studio visit with gallery artist Francesca Capone last week 🪡
Always a treat spending time with you, , and plotting the future together.
Don’t miss three new pieces from her series, “A Mother’s Discourse” debuting this Sunday in Los Angeles at in the group exhibition, MOTHER ✨

Incredible documentation of Amy Bay’s process with these WIPs of her stunning painting, “And What You Lost” (last image)...
06/25/2023

Incredible documentation of Amy Bay’s process with these WIPs of her stunning painting, “And What You Lost” (last image), currently on view in her solo exhibition, “They Always Have, and Still Do.”

Mark your calendar to hear ’s discuss her practice Thursday, July 6 at 5pm. We will be hosting a casual artist talk at the gallery 🌺

Thrilled to (finally!) welcome Los Angeles-based painter Dennis Foster for Wake Up New, his first soloexhibition with th...
06/23/2023

Thrilled to (finally!) welcome Los Angeles-based painter Dennis Foster for Wake Up New, his first solo
exhibition with the gallery.
Moving through the Project Room gallery, where this new series is presented, is meant as a full sensory immersion, a simulation of what it feels to be present in a visual landscape that forever reinvigorates the soul.
Join us tomorrow, Saturday, June 24 (3-5pm) to celebrate 💙🧡💙

The subjects of the paintings in Amy Bay’s “They Always Have, and Still Do” are nominally flowers. But perhaps they shou...
06/17/2023

The subjects of the paintings in Amy Bay’s “They Always Have, and Still Do” are nominally flowers. But perhaps they should instead be called florals: decorative interpretations of plants’ reproductive structures, designed to march across walls and textiles in an infinitely repeatable grid. In Bay’s work, the floral pattern is granted autonomy from this rigid system— tendrils curling around the canvas and petals pressed against each other as they crowd inside their frames. Apparent symmetry is undermined in sets of “twinned” paintings, like “a rose is a” and “rose is a,” whose mirrored compositions only serve to highlight their differences. Bay’s use of classical oil painting techniques like imprimatura, glazing, and sgraffito adds complexity to subjects that would conventionally be depicted through restrained colors and simplified lines. What began as flat wallpaper starts to hint at depth, opening into hazy landscape-like spaces, with heavily textured surfaces that evoke the accumulation of emotion, memory, and tradition through decades of life.

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rose is a, 2022, oil on canvas, 10 x 9 inches

a rose is a, 2022, oil on canvas, 10 x 9 inches

Open 12-6pm this weekend, then back on Thursday!

LAST DAYS!Kyle Lee’s paintings are windows into quietly profound moments—listening to music alone late at night by the l...
06/16/2023

LAST DAYS!

Kyle Lee’s paintings are windows into quietly profound moments—listening to music alone late at night by the light of the city streets, or contemplating a blank canvas in the studio, wondering what to paint next. Sometimes it feels important to let nothing happen for a little while. 🌃

Overture, 2022, acrylic and gouache on canvas, 15 x 14 inches

I’m Just Hanging Out by Myself, 2022, acrylic, gouache, and Flashe on canvas, 20.75 x 20 inches

Take a moment to come see ’s show Mini Hangs, in the Project Room through Sunday, June 18. DM for availability 💙

Amy Bay’s exuberant floral paintings are bursting with lush texture and color. Works like “Sigh for Sigh” and “Aeaea” ma...
06/12/2023

Amy Bay’s exuberant floral paintings are bursting with lush texture and color. Works like “Sigh for Sigh” and “Aeaea” magnify the tactility and weight of each brushstroke with their smaller scale. Richly pigmented leaves and blossoms begin to take on an almost sculptural quality, and Bay’s deft use of classical painting techniques and media shines in each tiny detail.

“They Always Have, and Still Do,” Amy Bay’s debut solo exhibition at Nationale, is on view through July 9 in the Front Gallery. These two smaller paintings are both 2023, oil and wax on canvas, 11 x 10 inches, and framed by Rae Davis. Please DM for availability.

“Mini Hangs,” our second exhibition with Kyle Lee, continues through June 18. Don’t miss it in our more intimate gallery...
06/10/2023

“Mini Hangs,” our second exhibition with Kyle Lee, continues through June 18. Don’t miss it in our more intimate gallery, the Project Room.

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Amy Bay’s majestic painting, Such a Queen, has been stealing many hearts at the gallery this week. Beautifully captured ...
06/10/2023

Amy Bay’s majestic painting, Such a Queen, has been stealing many hearts at the gallery this week. Beautifully captured here by with all the juicy details.

“Bay’s use of classical oil painting techniques like imprimatura, glazing, and sgraffito adds complexity to subjects that would conventionally be depicted through restrained colors and simplified lines. What began as flat wallpaper starts to hint at depth, opening into hazy landscape-like spaces, with heavily textured surfaces that evoke the accumulation of emotion, memory, and tradition through decades of life.

Noting the use of floral motifs as symbols for a vast range of ideas including “affection, sadness, sympathy, revulsion, desire, death, the quotidian,” Bay reminds the viewer that paintings of flowers “are rarely about one particular thing.” Her titles reflect the multitude of associations that emerge throughout the creation of a painting, and that each viewer might bring to the work themselves.” — Martha Daghlian

Such a Queen, 2022, oil and wax on canvas over panel, 46 x 48 inches, framed by

Thrilled this piece will be in a private collection in Portland, OR, and cherished every day. Congrats, 💛

Kyle Lee’s “Portrait of Walt Curtis” is a heartfelt tribute to the Portland poet, whose autobiographical novel “Mala Noc...
06/08/2023

Kyle Lee’s “Portrait of Walt Curtis” is a heartfelt tribute to the Portland poet, whose autobiographical novel “Mala Noche” inspired Gus Van Sant’s 1985 feature-length cinematic directorial debut of the same name. Curtis, who lives a couple blocks from the gallery and is never without his valise, remains a fixture in local literary circles, most especially at the beloved . We’re in awe of how Lee captures Curtis’ distinctive style with just a few brushstrokes. In ’s words: “Walt is a poet, a witness, an authentic man of Portland and has been around for a long time and I’m grateful to see him. P.S. and he’s known to be trouble.”

“Portrait of Walt Curtis” is on view as part of Kyle Lee’s solo show “Mini Hangs,” in the Project Room through June 18. Stop by Thursday-Monday 12-6pm 💙

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