(click on image to view series)

"Emiye"
from the Lincoln Plaza Portraits series

"Fishes"
from the Mythologies series

"Nightpeople"
from the City People series

"Broccoli or Spinach"
from the Shoprite series

"Verna's Story"
from the Generations of Brooklyn series

"Hot Bagels"
from the Vendors of Newkirk series

ABOUT NINA TALBOT  View Resume - (pdf file)

My paintings, organized into series, explore the everyday and fantastic world. To view each group of paintings, select the series name from the drop down menu at the top of the page or click on the representative painting from the series shown on the right hand side of this page. - Nina Talbot

Nina Talbot is a native New Yorker whose art is informed by the faces and places around her. She is fascinated by the multiplicity of cultures in her New York community. After graduating from the High School of Music and Art in 1971, Talbot studied at the Art Students' League, The Philadelphia College of Art, and The New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture.

Nina Talbot's paintings have been in one-person exhibitions in New York at the Ingber Gallery, Long Island University, Shelter Rock Gallery, the Williamsburg Historical Center, The Brooklyn Public Library, the Corridor Gallery, and St. Francis College. Her work has been featured in group exhibitions at museums and galleries including the Bronx Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and in the Smithsonian Institute's traveling exhibition "Three Brooklyn Artists."

Talbot won a grant for the completion of her Shoprite series from the Brooklyn Arts Council in 2002. She earned a citation from the Brooklyn Borough president for her Generations of Brooklyn series in 2004: "...sensitive and figurative narrations [that] tell the stories of immigrant families in Brooklyn, and which shows diversity of Brooklyn and of America, and the many voices that make up the artistic community and indeed, all of society...."

Vendors of Newkirk, a series of portraits completed in 2006, focused on the owners of the mom and pop stores in Talbot’s Flatbush neighborhood that are quickly disappearing as a result of the gentrification in New York. The portraits honor the presence and humble work of these members of the community. This body of work was exhibited at the Bread and Roses Gallery in the fall of 2007. Bread and Roses has a history of exhibiting artists who honor working people. Talbot follows a legacy of artists such as Alice Neel and Ralph Fasanella, who have shown their work at this gallery."

Talbot's murals have been commissioned by public agencies and corporations, including the Crown Heights Youth Coalition, the Metropolitan Transit Authority and the Lincoln Plaza Cinemas in New York City. In the summer of 2005 Talbot collaborated on the community Artmakers mural, When Women Pursue Justice.

Talbot is a teaching artist. She has worked for arts in education programs such as the Third Street Music School, Lincoln Center Institute, and Studio-in-a-School, and taught visual arts in education courses at Mercy College and Brooklyn College, in New York City.

Nina Talbot lives and works in Flatbush, Brooklyn.

Caribbean Life article: "Art exhibit
gives glimpse of multicultural world"

Daily News article:
"Artist captures borough's diversity"

Brooklyn Borough Hall Newsletter:
"A True Artist Indeed "