ART by Nick Supina III

an angel or just a prairie wind

2009-10-06T09:51:00.000-07:00

an angel or just a prairie wind
26"x36"
$1,200

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Portrait and Perception

2009-09-24T15:35:00.000-07:00

Portrait of Leilani Muir
University of Alberta Art Collection
2005

Character Assassination

The hand represents the perception of others: the boy's character deficiencies have negative influence on his scholastic and social potential. Therefore the gesture of the hand is accusatory. His gun represents that this perception of others has been internalized.

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Brave Smile

2009-07-27T21:09:00.000-07:00

Brave Smile
20"x40"
$650

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human marionette

2009-07-12T20:44:00.000-07:00

human marionette
24 x 40
acrylic on canvas

private collection

Tender Tears

2009-06-01T14:23:00.000-07:00

tender tears
34"x52"
$2,200

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Paper Thin

2009-05-06T15:21:00.000-07:00

paper thin
30" x 42"
acrylic on canvas
$675

Empathy is paper thin in this boy's life.

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The intercession, a rescue from the deluded

2009-05-01T07:18:00.000-07:00

The intercession, a rescue from the deluded
acrylic on canvas
38" X 52"
Designated Painting

Warm and real, the vivified child ascends through streams of liberating fire and light blown by the breath of God. Below, deluded phantoms obliviously drift towards hell, grey and empty pontificating ghosts deliberating lofty dissertations as to their great accomplishments, all founded on merciless indifference.

The rising radiant child is actually Judy, a victim of Alberta's eugenics program. The descending dead are the provincial leaders responsible for Alberta's eugenics program, which was based on the same ideology that inspired the eugenics program of Nazi Germany. They are Premier Earnest C. Manning, Premier William Aberhart, Emily Murphy and Premier John E. Brownlee.

Paper People's Hope in Children

2009-04-28T16:53:00.000-07:00

paper people's hope in children
30" x 42"
acrylic on canvas
$2,200

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Girl with book of blank pages

2009-04-25T09:46:00.000-07:00

girl with
book of blank pages
40" x 24"
acrylic on canvas

$3,700.00

To this learning disable girl
the school book may as well have blank pages
because she cannot comprehend its
dreary contents.
The words war against her mind with ever
victorious results,
causing her unceasing anxiety and frustration.
Yet, she spontaneously embraces the body
of the book
with acquiescent affection, as a symbol of
her school,
because she likes the teacher and her classmates,
and wants to please her parents by doing well
in school.
In exasperation, she raises the cover to her head
and leans upon it, looking for support,
though its words will not open up to her mind,
nor help her please her parents, teachers
and peers.
So the book still lays passively on her arm,
as though it is comfortable
with her warm acceptance of its physical existence,
but forcing her arm to conform
to its uncomfortable angular shape nonetheless.

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Drain Brain and Flattened Vertically

2009-04-19T09:57:00.000-07:00

drain brain
36: x 48"
acrylic on canvas

True story:
Words and numbers often popped into his brain
in the wrong order, or with reversed characters,
so his spelling was always very bad.
He trembled when the teacher told him to spell
the word "drain" on the chalkboard,
in front of the whole class.
And, as usual, he messed up,
by scrawling the word "brain" instead.
Then his unsympathetic and impatient teacher
neatly wrote the correct spelling above it.
In her frequently mocking voice,
she read the words "drain brain."
After this she quipped, "Obviously,
God gave you a drain instead of a brain."
The class laughed,
but a ministering spirit
assured that he would overcome
this humiliation someday.
$3,500

flatten vertically
20" x 38"
acrylic on canvas

$1,200

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Paper Jesus

2009-04-18T12:47:00.001-07:00

Paper Jesus
28" x 52"
acrylic on canvas
Private collection

paper Jesus

After he heard that
Christ died for our failures,
a cognitively disabled boy
creates a paper Jesus.
The prominent Xs and zeroes
on the figure represent
his teacher's marks at school:
Xs transform into a crown of thorns,
and zeroes form nail holes
in Jesus' limbs.
In faith, he reflects
on Jesus' empathy,
as peaceful blues surround him.
But where is Christ's real body,
the church?
Many Christians unjustly ignore,
accuse, or even persecute
souls with invisible disabilities;
refusing to acknowledge
the physical reality
of neurological disorders.
In ignorance,
they abandon Jesus' work of love;
their duty
to comfort, help and accept.

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Brand NEW Blog featuring paintings of Nick Supina III

2009-04-17T10:48:00.000-07:00

empty thought balloon
20" x 40"
acrylic on canvas

The girl pokes fun at herself,
which may look self depreciating.
But she provides a clue
to what lies beyond the obvious.
In the thought balloon,
three blank spaces end in a hybrid punctuation
(something between an exclamation and a question mark),
suggesting three emphatic words, known only to her.
Below, a ladder retreats into a hole,
which seems to be in her head,
leaving evidence as to where
her thoughts have fled.
And her smile reveals a secret
as warm and deep as the surrounding colour.
Even the static frame of the metal school desk
cannot confine her soul's capacity.
SOLD: Private collection

blue arc
32" x 44"
acrylic on canvas

$2,200

just one touch
22" x 44"
acrylic on canvas

$1,900

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