New Katy Nail Painting - Pontotoc Series
In its current exhibition of local artists - which it entitles “Animal” - Austin’s Quattro Gallery has scooped us by hanging the latest painting in Katy Nail’s “Pontotoc” series, before we even have it on display in our own web site *blush*
Pontotoc is the land site of huge, animistic boulders - of “magical shape and mien” - that uncannily resemble animals. The Gallery has photographs of the original rocks on display next to their interpreted paintings - this is a wonderful chance to understand that the world Katy Nail inhabits is equally strange as the pictures of it that she paints.
The latest Pontotoc painting.
The original boulder.
Lioness, Pontotoc Series
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Photograph of the “real” world, Katy Nail’s world.
August 9th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
[...] It’s a small world, as we noticed the other day when we went over to the Quattro Gallery to look at its current exhibition “Animal”, featuring the work of local Austin area artists. The exhibition includes the art of noted Austin painter Katy Nail, and we wanted to snap some pics for her website, since we adore Katy, and just by the way, Hunter and Associates built the Katy Nail website - which was our great pleasure and privilege. [...]