Nina Tichava is a pattern-based, abstract painter primarily focused on spatial relationships that emphasize the inherent surface quality, color, and visual variations in her work. She's interested in dualities -- hard vs. soft, fast vs. slow, calm vs. frenetic -- as well as the interactions between materials and methods that occur within her highly organic process. Nina 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 her mother, an artist and designer. These additional dualities—country vs. city, pragmatic vs. non-linear thinking, nature vs. technology—are essential to and evident in her work. A recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award Grant in 2007, Nina has exhibited professionally since 2009. She received her BFA from California College of the Arts in San Francisco/Oakland. Nina’s work is featured in numerous private, corporate, and public collections including Delta Airlines, Seattle WA; the City of Seattle Permanent Collection, Seattle WA; Fenwick and West LLP, Silicon Valley, CA; Harcos-Huneke Collection, Miramonte CA; Swedish Hospital, Seattle WA; the University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle WA; Seattle City Light Public Utility Collection, Seattle WA; Jewish Community Center and Foundation, Denver CO. She exhibits at national art fairs in Miami, Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Dallas, New York, Aspen, Seattle, and San Francisco.