I luv your "in your face" bold use of blocks of color ...it very solid and powerful, and it stops you in your tracks where you feel it's weight and density, like when your looking at monoliths in Colorado National Monument park at the the late afternoon when sun paints it with harsh saturated sunlight...

— Johnny Gabriele, Film Director, 2023

Nova's paintings take on the dark and difficult tangle of subconscious impulses while making important visual statements about violence, loneliness, despair, the quirk in the false perfection of the everyday, all of those forms that take shape from some place else, as Izzy calls the almost unnameable place that first drew her into the power of art and its ability to unleash both the storm and the stillness, the explosion in the street and the quiet hour. "Making art for me is like meeting and bringing a complex stranger to life," Nova says. "Abandoning forethought and expectation recently both in art and in life has given me comfort in my inability to comprehend, control, or at worst, change what is larger than me." On the surface these paintings shore up a feeling of chaos, of things gone beyond one's control, but embedded deeper in, sometimes crawling out of the corners of the canvas, is a very real and solid sense of purpose, a tent pitched in the void mid-storm, lantern light to read the hieroglyphics of promise and possibility by, in a place where, what art can do, is only measured by what we are able to imagine, and if we've closed that door we best be prying it open again.

— James Diaz, Editor-in-chief of Anti-Heroin Chic, Poet, 2017

IZZY NOVA

Digital Strategist, Indie Curator & 3rd Space Maker

IZZY NOVA

Digital Strategist, Indie Curator & 3rd Space Maker