Nina Tichava is a pattern-based, abstract painter primarily focused on spatial relationships that consider the inherent surface, color, and visual variations in her work. She's influenced by dualities: hard vs. soft, fast vs. slow, calm vs. frenetic, and interested in the interactions between materials and methods that develop within her highly organic process. Nina was raised in both rural northern New Mexico and the Bay Area in California. She was influenced by her father, a construction worker, and mathematician, and her mother, an artist and designer. The reflections of these dualities—country to city, pragmatist to the artist, nature to technology—are essential to and evident in her paintings. Nina was a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award Grant in 2007 and has exhibited professionally since 2009. She received her BFA from California College of the Arts in San Francisco/Oakland. Nina’s work is featured in numerous private, corporate, and public collections including Delta Airlines, Seattle WA; the City of Seattle Permanent Collection, Seattle WA; Fenwick and West LLP, Silicon Valley, CA; Harcos-Huneke Collection, Miramonte CA; Swedish Hospital, Seattle WA; the University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle WA; Seattle City Light Public Utility Collection, Seattle WA; Jewish Community Center and Foundation, Denver CO. She received her BFA from California College of the Arts [+ Crafts] in San Francisco/Oakland and has exhibited in all major national art fairs including: Miami, Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Dallas, New York, Aspen, Seattle and San Francisco.