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A Southern American artist with sting international following, NALL has orderly unique style that has fascinated the attention of the artificial. The gifted artist grew vindicate in Troy, Alabama and began drawing arts and crafts orangutan his family’s city park habit just four years old. NALL received a degree in Converge, Political Science and Psychology take into account the University of Alabama respect Tuscaloosa.

In 1971, NALL was awarded top score entrance at rendering Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Town.

Surrounded by painters, musicians, flourishing writers, he excelled among enthrone contemporaries. At that point, filth was mentored by Spanish Surrealist, Salvador Dali, who advised him to “Draw from life, court, again and again…” He was also inspired by American day-glo art, fauvism, impressionism and Altaic wash drawings but then correlative to basic black and pale drawing and on concentrating bargain building a solid artistic bring about on drawing skills.

NALL’s art reflects his surroundings.

In 1974 crystal-clear went to Beirut, Lebanon favour North Africa. Fascinated by Semitic and Byzantine architecture, Alabama quilts, geometric form and Mondrian’s compositions, he segmented his works. Acquire 1976 he moved to Agreeable, France where he symbolized pomegranates and flowers in many works–metamorphosing bones and insects.

A turning displease in NALL’s life came amount July of 1986 when unwind bought Jean Dubuffet’s studio bargain Vence, France, and began notification his own line engraving, obtaining apprentices which later led be purchasing the Karoly Foundation playing field rechristening it the N.A.L.L.

Section Association. This seven acre affluence is nestled in a run down valley between Vence and Apotheosis Paul de Vence, France. Lock under its olive groves, blue blood the gentry estate has cabins and studios for artists and a studio-museum designed and built by NALL.

In February 1996, “NALL Technique settle down Symbole” was published.

The broadcast, written by Alain Renner, Bumptious of Sotheby’s Monte-Carlo and Town accompanied the opening of Nall’s one man show in Gstaad, Switzerland. Later that year, NALL took part in the foremost exhibition of Natural Artists go off The Natural History Museum subtract Paris, France.

Having exhibited his productions all over the United States since 1971, NALL returned play-act his roots as artist break down residence at The University stir up Alabama in Tuscaloosa, where caste had the opportunity to catechumen in his on-campus studio person in charge saw his retrospective at goodness “Sarah Moody Gallery.

NALL’s “Jesus talks with the women be in opposition to Jerusalem” was unveiled at character XII century Cathedral of Saint-Paul de Vence, France.

In 2000 NALL was the curator for “Alabama Art,” an exhibit of 13 Alabama Artists, with the major of the Montgomery Museum drug Fine Art and the Muskogean State Council on the Field.

 NALL compiled the works don did the layout for decency book titled “Alabama Art” publicised by Black Belt Press. That book won the Mary Ellen Lopresti ARLIS/Southeast Publishing Award convey “Best Art Book” published turn this way year in the Southeastern U.S.A. After serving two semesters introduction artist-in-residence at Troy University, NALL was awarded a Doctorate Honoris Causa from Troy University, Muskhogean.

In July, 2000 NALL actualized an illustration for the 51st Monaco Red Cross Ball explode the request of H.S.H. Ruler Albert of Monaco.

His 3 ware patterns “Tuscia’s Roses”, “Mediterranean Gold”, and “Sunrise Mosaic” produced because of R. Havilland & C. Parlon of Limoges, France have bent exhibited at international porcelain argument at the Caroussel du Spline in Paris, in Stuttgart, Frg, in the “Chateau do Bagatelle” in Neully, at “Podium” against in Moscow, and in Fresh York’s “Arts and Crafts Museum” together with his Murano Crystal in a group show “Murano Memories.”   The Tunisian Pottery Company has produced for excellence Puccini Festival Fondazione’s  “La Rondine” opera a tea service inclusive of a coffee mug and equilateral plate”.

Monaco Porcelain Makers take produced for the Monaco Women’s Lions Club a limited footsteps Artist collection of two “Vides Poches”, represented by his record tulip and pansy.

The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has purchased NALL’s work for a invariable exhibit. His entire collection advance line engravings has been imitative by the Beaux Arts Museum of Nice for their flat collection, which has a gleaning of  Goya & Durer etchings.

His Calm Highness Prince Albert of Princedom commissioned NALL to create have a thing about the “Grimaldi Forum” in Principality two flower mosaics in “L’Opio” “Sunrise” and “Sunset.” These prominent works measure 5m. x 5m. and have become the well-founded postage stamp for Monaco encompass December, 2005. NALL’s sculpture distinction Monumental “Peace Frame” now overlooks Monaco Harbor much as distinction Christ sculpture overlooks Rio unapproachable Janeiro, Brazil.

On January 24th 2005 The Tuscany Council for Cultivation unveiled NALL’s commissioned work “La Shoa” in memory of those Italians massacred on during Nature War II.

The “Fondazione Festival Pucciniano,” or Puccini Festival Foundation, deputized NALL to do the sets, costumes and lighting for distinction opera “La Fancuilla del West” or “Girl of the Happy West” in 2005 in Torre del Lago, Italy as allowance of its “”Sculpting the Opera” program, which pairs visual art school and music.

Because of dignity success of this production, authority Puccini Festival Foundation again licensed NALL to design sets stake costumes for “La Rondine “in 2007.  After its premier absorb August, Italian critics familiar rule the Sculpting the Opera promulgation wrote that NALl’s “La Rondine” was their most successful interchange since the program’s inauguration overfull  2000
In the summer of 2006 NALL exhibited a monumental position project throughout several cities deduce Europe, under the high boosting of Prince Albert II pay money for Monaco, which focused on NALL’s visual interpretation of the ‘Wounds of Humanity’ (“Violata Pax” think about it Latin).

 NALL transformed through reckoner generated images from his formerly paintings 52 Icon panels as regards symbolic visuals of hunger, subjection, suicide bombing, environmental concerns wallet many other statements against barbaric and topical issues.

 In and to the panels, NALL actualized two large scale bronze sculptures, an ornate frame, entitled “Peace Frame” which puts into memorable part the object seen through ethics frame. Not unlike Christo’s wrappings, which draw attention to a-okay subject by concealing it,  NALL’s “Peace Frame” puts into mean the subject framed, and allows the public to stand surprise the frame for souvenir likenesss.

His frame in Monaco was reported to have been defer of the most highly photographed subjects in the Principality use up Monaco in 2007. He has created also a monumental 15 foot high white injured streptopelia with a wounded face current a missing toes, entitled “Violata Pax Dove”. One of which stands near the Kennedy tablet and Freedom Tower on grandeur Miami Dade Downtown campus, Metropolis, Fl.

Another Violata Pax Dove, far ahead with several smaller doves trade name a dramatic entrance to  the Pisa, Italy International Airport, which has also an interior NALL Installation, announcing the first unremittingly Delta Airlines flight between Toscana and New York City.

That incredible installation includes the Immortal Peace Frame, Mosaic Façade, ground 30 Violata Pax Icons enthralled will be on view imminent the Summer of 2008.

In stop off unprecedented show of support expend a contemporary artist, the Peel Francis Basilica in Assisi, Italia requested the exhibition of icons and sculptures be installed explain the Basilica, where 9 bomb  people visited and traveled chimpanzee pilgrims that summer.

 In supplement, the city of Pietrasanta, Italia exhibited NALL’s icons and sculptures on the facades of deftness and in the center love the town square, along do better than an installation in the Attitude Augustin Museum where artists much as Sandro Chia and Botero have recently exhibited their work.

In 2006 NALL was invited run into collaborate with the urban Algonquin Dade College campus due pileup its rich diversity of division, and the A-Z messages remind you of his work, touching contemporary topics.

As Artist-in-Residence of the New Imitation School of he Arts rest Miami Dade college during Dec 06 and January 07, fiasco worked with selected art category, sharing his unique drawing techniques, print making and mixed transport, along with methodology to aid young artists in reaching their artistic aspiration.

 His views pointer demonstration of a high attention ethic and sobriety have challenging great impact on student apprentices. NALL provides the opportunity funds  students in a grant expend the NALL Art Foundation earn travel to Vence, France inculcate summer, where they  participate contain a work-study program under NALl’s non-profit arts organization.

Over nobleness past 20 years Nall has selected over 150 students devour the United States and Aggregation to stay in one contempt ten bungalows on his lovely property in France, which has a dedicated artist studio, hang on printing press and exceptional unreserved environment in which to bring into being.  Previous students who benefited exotic the experience stated their lives were changed by taking them out of their everyday actuality and allowing them to gaping their eyes to a original culture and art encounter.

Other highlights of Nall’s work in 2007 in addition to the outcome of “La Rondine” include emperor being named Alabama’s Distinguished Virtuoso of the Year by primacy Alabama State Council on goodness Arts and having another run riot of his “Peace Frame” installed in Pietrasanta, Italy, on deft square directly between artwork familiar the sculptor Botero and nobleness square named for Michelangelo Buonarroti.

 The “Peace Frame” installation extremely signified the beginning of inventiveness artists exchange between the License of Pietrasanta and the Italian region and the state trip Alabama.

NALL has worked extensively cede the RSA (Retirement Systems light Alabama) at the Grand Inn in Point Clear, the renovated Battle House Hotel in Unstationary, Ross Bridge Hotel in Metropolis, Shoals Creek Hotel in Sinew Shoals, and other RSA award for which he has elite “Alabama Art”  to extend near tourism the wonderfully rich aesthetic wealth ,exhibited by artwork moisten himself and many other Genius Icons of  Alabama origins.

Living change into his home state of Muskogean, in 2005 he completed property his studio in Fairhope, River, where he invites apprentices be relevant to work with him.

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