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Nina Johnson is delighted to present a selection of works by Christy Gast, Jasmine Little, and Tara Walters.

About Christy Gast

Christy Gast is an artist whose work across media stems from extensive research and site visits to places she thinks of as “contested landscapes.” She is interested in places where there is evidence of conflict in human desires, which she traces, translates or mirrors through her art practice. Since 2010 she has worked with Ensayos, a collective research practice working on issues of political ecology in Tierra del Fuego and other archipelagos.

Her work has been exhibited at MoMA/P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Performa, Artist’s Space, Harris Lieberman Gallery and Regina Rex in New York; the Pérez Art Museum of Miami, Bass Museum of Art, de la Cruz Collection, Locust Projects, and Nina Johnson in Miami; as well as Mass MoCA, the American University Museum, L.A.C.E., High Desert Test Sites, Centro Cultural Matucana 100 (Chile), the Kadist Foundation (Paris) and Milani Gallery (Brisbane). She has received grants and awards from the Art Matters Foundation, Funding Arts Network, South Florida Cultural Consortium, Tigertail, the American Austrian Foundation Hayward Prize, and the Joan Sovern Sculpture Award from Columbia University.

About Jasmine Little

Jasmine Little was born in Portsmouth, Virginia in 1984; she lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. She studied at Copper Mountain College, Joshua Tree, CA, the University of California, Los Angeles, CA and Adam State University, Alamosa, CO. Little has exhibited internationally including exhibitions at Foundation Thalie, Brussels, Belgium; Lefebvre & Fils, Paris; Galerie Dumonteil, Shanghai; and HangART-7, Austria. Nationally, she has exhibited at Night Gallery, Los Angeles; Nina Johnson, Miami; Deitch Projects, New York. Little’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Perez Art Museum, Detroit Museum of Art and the Nevada Museum of Art.

About Tara Walters

Tara Walters (b. 1990, Washington D.C.) lives in Malibu and works in Los Angeles. She received her MFA from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA and her BFA in Painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, GA. Her work has been included in solo and group exhibitions in Los Angeles, New York, Venice, Italy, and Shanghai, China. She is currently working on an upcoming solo show with Nina Johnson Gallery opening March 20, 2025 in Miami, Florida. Walters is an artist and painter whose work is inspired by psychic phenomena and the ethereality of the natural world. Her paintings are created using water from the Pacific Ocean, which adds a unique and personal element to her creative process. The grit of the Pacific’s elements, mixed with paint and washes, creates an otherworldly effect, blurring the lines between the tangible and the mystical. Through her work, Walters seeks to capture the fleeting beauty of nature while exploring the unseen energies that shape our world.