Epicenter x Art Retail Therapy: Reception for Nia Blue, February’s featured artist

Epicenter NYC and Art Retail Therapy are teaming up!

Every month you can view the work of a new Epicenter feature artist on the walls at the Art Retail Therapy store in Jackson Heights.

February’s feature artist is Nia Blue

Nia Blue, a painter and educator based in Brooklyn. Blue’s work focuses on documenting issues around health care in the U.S. and the impact it has on African American experiences.

Blue aims to encapsulate human connection, and the perpetual dialogue between our internal thoughts and external expressions. Her intention is to work with a medium that allows for meditation on shapes and colors that evoke emotion within a scene. Her artistic approach, part autobiography, part collective memory, centers the often unspoken narratives experienced by Black women in contemporary society. Blue uses mixed media paint and cold wax because the materials allow the reimagination of life through rough texture, invented palettes, and the abstraction of perspective.