Adrian Nivola | Early Life and Landscapes

This exhibition, his third with Maya Frodeman Gallery, focuses on two themes: Nivola’s experience of having a child, and his travel through regions of France and Italy. Since the birth of his son two years ago, Nivola has been captivated by observing the child’s emerging consciousness, and by moments of unlikely serenity in early, sleepless family life: “My child, like all infants, suddenly and mysteriously evolved from a vaguely alert amoeba into a forceful personality, the way a work  of art, with any luck, sometimes can. When I look at my son, I am moved above all by the fragility of his trust in me which is, of course, a universal experience for all parents. It seems to me that if I can succeed in capturing something of that expression in him, which has so elevated the stakes of life for me, it might do the same for my audience.”