PALM DESERT, Calif. – Southern California-based abstract expressionist painter Nina K will unveil several new works from her successful “Pixel” series beginning in early September in the new location of the Coda Gallery, 73-400 El Paseo.

In recent years, Nina K’s work has become desirable with collectors throughout the U.S. and overseas, while she is represented by three different galleries in the Southern California area. In addition to her relationship with the Coda Gallery, she also exhibits and is represented by the Avran Art + Design Gallery in Laguna Beach, Calif., where she currently lives, and the Emerald C Gallery, in San Diego.

Her Pixel series of paintings, along with her other work, are all oil on canvas and have been described as “explosive.” Nina K developed signature technique incorporates applying heavy layers of paint with various palette knives in a cascade form. She often mixes several colors on her knife and drag it down to get a specific effect. When dry, she applies glazes and varnish, which gives it a three-dimensional effect and also a wet appearance. When the proper lighting hits the paintings, they give off a luminous effect.

While her passion has always been her art, Nina K also achieved prominence as a fashion designer throughout the 1980s and ’90s when she launched her own Nina K women’s line in New York City. The fashion world embraced her designs and she won the “Rising Star Award” from the National Fashion association. The label took off and her clothing was soon in fine stores coast to coast. Many leading fashion magazines including Vogue, Elle and Glamour featured her designs in various layouts.

Upon moving to the Los Angeles area in mid ’90s, Nina K switched the focus and her talent back into creating her art as a full-time career. She began painting large-scale abstract oils on canvas and soon found an audience for her work.