Description: Nina Catanese is a Chicago-based artist with a studio in the Harrison St. art district in Oak Park, IL. She works in oil painting and fine-line ink drawings. Fever Dream is her studio.
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Nina Catanese
Nina Catanese takes her artistic queue from illustrators such as the sensual and playful Aubrey Beardsley and from the darker, more brooding images produced by Harry Clarke and adds a taste of the exoticism and mysticism of the Far East to bring to fruition her own unique style.
Strange characters and symbols populate her dream-like landscape, gyrating and swirling in their dance of oddity. A lush world where festive, bejeweled fish swim languidly along strange and lovely mermaids, and a place where one can find an angel and a devil locked halo and horn in a half-serious game of tug-of-war.