Star Dust Angel, 2020
Acrylic and grease pencil on canvas
85 x 73 inches (215.9 x 185.4 cm)
© Robert Nava; Courtesy the artist and Vito Schnabel Gallery
...Around the same time, the dealer Vito Schnabel came across Nava’s work on the feed of well-connected art publicist Andrea Schwan. Since his early teens, Schnabel had been put-ting on shows of work by artists, including his father, Julian Schnabel. But Vito was looking to start representing talents of his own generation, and he found himself drawn to Nava’s neon-lit cave paintings of cultural fixations.
“There’s something very relatable, from the Transformers to the Power Rangers, and then they transcend that,” Schnabel said. “There’s something nostalgic about it for me—it brought me back to a place.”