Nina Tichava

The Breeze at Dawn Has Secrets to Tell You

acrylic, ink, charcoal, graphite, paper, and brass on panel. 60” x 60”. private collection. 2021

Nina Tichava 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 by her mother who was an artist and designer. The reflections of these dualities—country to city, pragmatist to artist, nature to technology—are essential to and evident in her paintings. Nina is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award Grant in 2007 and has exhibited nationally since 2008. She received her BFA from California College of the Arts [+ Crafts] in San Francisco/Oakland.