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Nava Lubelski
Born New York City, NY 1968
Work Makes You, 2023
Archival pigment print on cotton rag paper
22 x 32 inches

Value: $700

Nava Lubelski engages with a variety of materials and techniques, focusing on hybridizing notions of masculine/feminine, art/craft, and painting/sculpture. Lubelski was born and raised in New York City, but now lives and works in Asheville. She is best known for her embroidery works on canvas, which explore what the artist calls "the contradictions between the impulse to destroy and the compulsion to mend." Linens are stained and ripped, creating initial marks that she meticulously embroiders over. The artist uses the graphic look of the stain to delve into issues of female sexuality. According to the artist, there is a social symbolism in the stain, something shameful or worthy of reproach that the woman historically cleans up, hides, or discards. Lubelski has also worked with cut paper and printmaking, often referencing Wycinanki, a Slavic folk art tradition of paper cutting.

Lubelski's work has been exhibited widely at museums such as the Asheville Art Museum; the Mint Museum; the Museum of Arts & Design; the Queens Museum of Art; and the San Diego Museum of Art. She has received grants from The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the North Carolina Arts Council. Lubelski received a degree in Russian Literature & History from Wesleyan University and spent a year as a student in Moscow, Russia.