mixed media abstraction.
“Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot see physically with his eyes....Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond the tangible, to extract the infinite out of the finite. It is the emancipation of the mind. It is an exploration into unknown areas.”
― Arshile Gorky
Nia Celeste is a Baltimore-born multidisciplinary artist utilizing various visual and written art forms as tools of introspection to explore herself, her juxtapositions in the world, and others in similar contexts. For Celeste, the act of creating art has become an instrument of introspection and a tool to promote civic engagement and foster hope. She creates to explore. And explores to create. This act of creation has meant manipulating and mixing various creative mediums to curate introspective allegories of her life; finding inspiration from life, family, and the world around her. Her personal work acts as a sort of diary and lifelong study of relationship with self and God; utilizing the inquiry of poetry, the mood of photography, the freedom of film, and the process of abstraction to explore the depths of life. She creates to learn, to heal, to self-reflect and ponder; allowing herself a fluidity and freedom to use various mediums within one piece and/or to step into completely new expressions of art.
“Art is a wound turned into light.”
— Georges Braque