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Frida in the new mural for the MoMa store by New York artist and author Nina Chanel Abney
05 February 2026
Particularly for the LOVE NYC mural at the MoMa store, Abney provides her own versions of items from the museum's collection, including Frida Kahlo's self-portrait, Salvador Dalí's melting clock, Marcel Duchamp's bicycle, and Andy Warhol's Campbell's soup cans.
This particularity reflects Abney's larger strategy of fusing the private and the public, of personalizing commonplace objects. The artist has even created some Jordan sneakers and collaborated with well-known companies like Air Jordan.
About the Artist
Combining representation and abstraction, Nina Chanel Abney’s paintings capture the frenetic pace of contemporary culture. Broaching subjects as diverse as race, celebrity, religion, politics, sex, and art history, her works eschew linear storytelling in lieu of disjointed narratives. The effect is information overload, balanced with a kind of spontaneous order, where time and space are compressed and identity is interchangeable. Her distinctively bold style harnesses the flux and simultaneity that has come to define life in the 21st century. Through a bracing use of color and unapologetic scale, Abney’s canvases propose a new type of history painting, one grounded in the barrage of everyday events and funneled through the velocity of the internet.
See also the artist website: https://ninachanel.com/
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See the LOVE NYC mural at the MoMa store following the link below.
