Man of Steel

by Nina Belfor

“Whether paintings, prints or drawings/gouaches, my work always centers on the use of the human body as an expressive tool. This is a natural extension of both studying and teaching figure drawing for many years, but also underlies humanistic themes in my content, which often address such ideas as power imbalances, relationships and our existence in nature. Thus the structure of the body, still or in motion, serves as the building block of my compositions, and even my landscapes are conceptualized in terms of bodies or body parts, as in many early creation myths, with clouds, for instance, acting as a kind of Greek Chorus to the figurative narrative. For me, every painting, print and drawing is an essential means of emotionally and intellectually understanding the confusion and tragedy of the world via narrative re-telling, or, visually speaking, a re-composing. It’s an idea that again, goes back to classical art and poetry and centuries old stories of creation.”