NAVA OTTENBERG - under the skin

Nava Ottenberg is an acrylic painter and art teacher with strong roots in the arts community. She is a leader of public art initiatives in Gainesville. Nava is a graduate of the Academy of Art in San Francisco. She was a featured artist in Season 4 of Artistry in Motion and her prize-winning paintings have been exhibited and sold locally and internationally.
"My expressionistic approach is an attempt to abstract the subject into the texture and emotion layered beneath it. The limitations of the canvas are a confrontation to my desire to reach the essential, colliding with an obsession with control and clarity. My technic involves the use of brushes and palette knives, pulling paint, and layering of colors and texture. I believe that if you can see it, you can paint it, and I am learning the language of what seeing is. I hope to evoke a reaction from the viewer that goes deeper than the story of the subject matter."