Natasha Landau & Dan Nistor

NATASHA LANDAU & DAN NISTOR

paintings and drawings

On View: August 27–September 20, 2026

Opening Reception: Saturday, August 29, 6–9 PM at RIVAA Gallery

RIVAA Gallery is pleased to present Paintings and Drawings, a two-person exhibition featuring Roosevelt Island artists Natasha Landau and Dan Nistor.

Distinctly different in their approaches, both create imaginative and visually compelling worlds.

Natasha Landau’s dreamlike, narrative works are shaped by memory, nature, literature, and her celebrated career in costume design for film and theater. Her paintings and drawings move among landscape, portraiture, and fantasy, inviting viewers into scenes that feel at once intimate and theatrical.

Dan Nistor creates richly expressive paintings alive with vivid color, tactile surfaces, and energetic brushwork. Moving among portraits, figures, landscapes, animals, and still lifes, he responds intuitively to each developing work, refining every form and gesture in relation to the composition as a whole.

Together, Landau and Nistor offer two compelling ways of seeing: one unfolding through story, memory, and imagination, and the other emerging through a perceptual, intuitive, and responsive creative process.

We hope to see you at the opening reception on Saturday, August 29, from 6–9 PM.

Preview selected works and learn more about the artists at:

https://www.rivaagallery.org/dan-nistor-natasha-landau-exhibition

The exhibition and opening reception are free and open to all.

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