Nathan Abels

b. 1980 Bowling Green, OH
Lives and works in Evergreen, CO

Nathan Abels creates atmospheric paintings that explore memory, technology, and humanity’s enduring search for meaning. His compositions unfold in expansive, dreamlike spaces where figures, landscapes, and distant light sources feel suspended between past and future. Drawing on a long history of looking skyward—for guidance, belief, or escape—Abels treats the horizon and the cosmos as places of projection, where wonder and uncertainty coexist. Balancing narrative suggestion with quiet ambiguity, his work invites contemplation and a slowed sense of time.

Abels received his MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design and lives and works in the Colorado foothills. Recent solo exhibitions include Machine Dreams at RULE Gallery, along with earlier presentations at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art and the Littleton Museum. His work is held in public and private collections nationwide.