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阿卡瑪諾羅·奈爾斯

Guild Hall

East Hampton

5月3日–2026年7月19日

Detail of painting by Arcmanoro Niles

East Hampton, New York

This exhibition traces a decade of evolution in the artist’s practice since his 2016 residency at Guild Hall, the inaugural program of our Artist in Residence initiative. Known for his saturated color, reflective surfaces, and emotionally charged scenes drawn from daily life and memory, Niles has developed a distinctive visual language that challenges conventions of portraiture.

Early in his career, he became frustrated with traditional methods of rendering skin tone, finding they lacked the depth and dimension he observed in real life. This led him to experiment with color—layering pinks, oranges, and purples to evoke an internal light. His chiaroscuro-like approach reveals both a dedication to craft and a palette that defines his work across portraits, domestic interiors, and landscapes.

Painting by Arcmanoro Niles

阿卡瑪諾羅·奈爾斯

The City Lights Can't Shine Quite like the Stars, 2024

Painting by Arcmanoro Niles

阿卡瑪諾羅·奈爾斯

We Used To Go Out in a Oldsmobile (For a Moment All We Did Would Never End), 2023

Sculpture by Arcmanoro Niles

阿卡瑪諾羅·奈爾斯

Praying to a God That Won’t Talk Back, 2023

Painting by Arcmanoro Niles
Painting by Arcmanoro Niles

阿卡瑪諾羅·奈爾斯

Peaceful Days Pass Too Quickly (Let’s Pretend There’s a Place to Go Where I Won’t Be Found), 2025

Painting by Arcmanoro Niles

阿卡瑪諾羅·奈爾斯

The Classroom, 2017

Painting by Arcmanoro Niles

阿卡瑪諾羅·奈爾斯

Bad Kid, It Wasn’t Love (Like My Daddy’s the Devil), 2018

Painting by Arcmanoro Niles

阿卡瑪諾羅·奈爾斯

I Don’t Know If I Ever Been Really Loved (They Say It Gets Better With Time), 2026

Painting by Arcmanoro Niles

阿卡瑪諾羅·奈爾斯

Maybe This Will Set Me Free (I Wonder How fast I’ll Fall asleep), 2026

Work on paper by Arcmanoro Niles

阿卡瑪諾羅·奈爾斯

Wasting Away Doesn’t Feel like it Used To (To Lay in Snow Il), 2026

Work on paper by Arcmanoro Niles

阿卡瑪諾羅·奈爾斯

I’ll Be Your Sweet Little Lie, 2026

Painting by Arcmanoro Niles

阿卡瑪諾羅·奈爾斯

February Fourteen (Did I Try Too Hard to Make You Laugh), 2025

Painting by Arcmanoro Niles
Painting by Arcmanoro Niles

阿卡瑪諾羅·奈爾斯

Bracing for the Night (There’s Only Loneliness Insight), 2023

Painting by Arcmanoro Niles

阿卡瑪諾羅·奈爾斯

3AM My Mind Won’t Rest Again (From a Distance I Look Organized and Brave), 2024

Painting by Arcmanoro Niles

阿卡瑪諾羅·奈爾斯

I Roll Over to Find You’re Not There (You Finally Found Someone True), 2024

Painting by Arcmanoro Niles

阿卡瑪諾羅·奈爾斯

The Veil of Thought, 2014

Painting by Arcmanoro Niles

阿卡瑪諾羅·奈爾斯

When We Were Young, 2016

Painting by Arcmanoro Niles

阿卡瑪諾羅·奈爾斯

What Time Had Done, 2017

Painting by Arcmanoro Niles

阿卡瑪諾羅·奈爾斯

A Safe Place Since Birth (Sisters), 2016

Painting by Arcmanoro Niles

阿卡瑪諾羅·奈爾斯

Anthropic Mania, 2013

Painting by Arcmanoro Niles

阿卡瑪諾羅·奈爾斯

Don’t Think I Won’t Take A Good Thing Too Far (Maybe I’m Looking For Something I Can’t Have), 2021

Painting by Arcmanoro Niles

阿卡瑪諾羅·奈爾斯

The Hardest Part Was Leaving Love Behind, 2020

Work on paper by Arcmanoro Niles

阿卡瑪諾羅·奈爾斯

David with the Head of Goliath, 2009

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Portrait of Arcmanoro Niles

阿卡瑪諾羅·奈爾斯(1989年生於美國華盛頓,現於紐約工作和生活)透過創作色彩明亮鮮豔的繪畫,拓寬傳統風俗畫和肖像畫的既定概念。奈爾斯提供了一扇窗口,讓觀眾一探日常生活中看似平凡的時刻,例如坐在餐桌前吃早餐的孩子、準備上車的男人、在臥室裡的夫婦。這些作品取材自奈爾斯親朋好友的照片,以及他回憶中的過去。奈爾斯的作品非常個人並具有強烈的自傳性,主要圍繞「家居」和「家庭生活」兩個普世主題。作品借鑒了許多藝術前輩的藝術風格,例如意大利和荷蘭的巴洛克風格、歷史繪畫、色域繪畫和古埃及雕塑等許多富有歷史價值的藝術實踐。奈爾斯受多種風格和流派啟發,尤其是16世紀意大利畫家卡拉瓦喬(Caravaggio)以家人和朋友的日常生活為題的繪畫。透過描繪親友和他們所置身的地方和時間,奈爾斯創造了自己獨有的當代生活記錄。

活力四射的橙色、粉紅色、紫色、藍色和綠色都是奈爾斯作品的標誌,並在創作時逐層上色,以營造出飽和的光芒。作品中每個人物的棕色皮膚都帶金色色調,頭髮亦散發出淡淡的紫色、橙色或粉紅色閃光。起初,奈爾斯奉行更傳統的現實主義創作,直至2015年,奈爾斯為自己無法呈現家人和朋友的皮膚色調深度而感到挫敗。因此他開始繪畫色彩鮮豔的作品,把橙色和粉紅色融入場景的背景中,為作品增添了深度和活力。這不但使他的作畫技術更穩固,並改變了此後每幅畫。在此期間,奈爾斯亦開始將他稱之為「搜索者」(“seekers”)的角色融入作品中。這些「搜索者」一般是小型的姿態性(gestural)角色,或以圓潤的小精靈為形出現,並代表著人類最原始的衝動和慾望。奈爾斯說:「『搜索者』比較衝動,他們會不顧後果地追逐一切在當下使他們愉快的事物;反之,人類比較容易受傷,但亦較願意敞開心扉。」「搜索者」引領觀眾形式地觀察作品,同時邀請我們想像畫中場景之前或之後可能發生的事,以暗示每個人物的內在動機。

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