"Mister" Nancy Kravitz (aka Mister N) is what we call the quintessential "outsider artist". After a lifelong career as an international recording and touring rock musician, she found herself with a creative void that needed to be filled. Having never painted before, in the middle of 2012 she picked up a couple of pieces of colored chalk to release some of her inner demons. That started a foray into the painting world. Oils soon became the medium of choice and Mister quickly started producing works based on life, love and near death experiences. Painting from an emotional place with no technical training, a distinctive style emerged. It is constantly being redefined. Changing artistic mediums in her fifties was the beginning of a new and exciting chapter in an evolving career.
While starting to work in this unknown arena, personal tragedy struck. She relocated from her long time home, the San Francisco Bay Area, to a small town in Kentucky. it was true culture shock. Trying to heal from the tragic loss of her muse, she incurred a traumatic brain injury, which almost stopped the prolific output. Eventually the paint started to flow again, with the same autobiographical honesty that is a signature of mister's distinct style.
Her works are available for sale, please use contact form below for pricing info.
Squished 18"x24" (2012) oil on canvas
health care in america 2012 (#1/4) (2012) 16"x20" oil on canvas
health care in america (#2/4) (2012) 16"x20" oil on canvas
health care in america (#3/4) (2012) 16"x20"
oil/mixed media on canvas
health care in america (#4/4) (2012) 16"x20"
oil/mixed media on canvas
The babs 36"x24" (2012) oil/mixed media on canvas
(collaboration with cricket alexander)
Too drunk to fuck (2013) 16"x20" oil on canvas
mirror mirror on the wall (2013) 36"x24" oil on canvas
my super heroes #1 (2013) 16"x20" oil on canvas
slipping through the cracks (2013) 16"x20" oil on canvas
mr. Chicken little (2013) 16"x20" oil on canvas
our family (2013) 16"x20" oil on canvas. *sold!*
The Grass is always greener (2013) 16"x20" oil on canvas
money is the root... (2013) 16"x20" oil on canvas
demons along the road (2013) 16"x20" oil on canvas
custom made Pillow: graphic BY MISTER N, pillow construction & CUSTOM FREE FORM
APPLIQUE by cricket alexander exclusively for "house of mister-n-cricket" (2013) *SOLD!*
custom made Pillow: "ANGEL & RICH" graphic BY MISTER N, pillow construction & CUSTOM FREE FORM APPLIQUE by cricket alexander exclusively for "house of mister-n-cricket" (2013) *SOLD!*
jonesin' for LOVE (2013) 16"X20" OIL ON CANVAS. *sold!*
4th of july (2013) 16"x20" oil on canvas
bar is killing me (2013) 16"x20" oil on canvas
other shoe (2013) 16"x20" oil on canvas
liar liar (2013) 16"x20" oil on canvas
PILLAR OF SOCIETY (2013) 16"x20" oil on canvas *SOLD!*
lock down (2014) 16"x20" oil on canvas
tears of a clown (2014) 20"x24" oil on canvas
Hanging by a thread (2015) 12"x24" oil on canvas
Hamster head 20"x24"(2015) oil/mixed media on canvas
house i call home (2016) 18"x24" oil on canvas
future goth 16"x20" (2016) oil on canvas *sold!*
brain buster 16"x20" (2017) oil on canvas *sold!*
my super heroes #2 16"x20" (2018) oil on canvas
my lonely heart 16"x20" (2019) oil on canvas
twitler must go 16"x20" (2019) oil/mixed media on canvas *sold!*
pamela adlon's owl (2020) 16"x20" oil on canvas
never forget (2020) 11"x14" oil/mixed media on canvas
slug land (2020) 11"x14" oil/mixed media on canvas
years of living dangerously (2020) 11"x14" oil/mixed media on canvas
still kickin' (2020) 11"x14" oil on canvas
not so sugary skull (2020) 11"x14" oil on canvas
no words! (2021) 11"x14" oil on canvas
it's not airborne (2021) 11"x14" oil/mixed media on canvas
iris pulp fiction (2021) 11"x14" oil/iris pulp on canvas *sold!*
best friends (2022) 16"x20" oil on canvas
fruits of the poisonous tree (2023) 16"x20" oil on canvas
clap heard around the world (2023) 16"x20" oil on canvas
rest in power amy (2023) 11"x14" oil on canvas
far away friends and loves (2023) 11" x14" oil on canvas
beware the black holes (2024) 11"x14" oil on canvas
broken toys (2024) 11"x14" oil on canvas
for ken the "boxman" (2024) 11"x14" oil on canvas *SOLD!*
mom stuff (ongoing work in progress) 16"x20" (2024)
mixed media/oil on canvas
healing Heart (ongoing work in progress) 11"x14" (2024)
mixed media/oil on canvas
mixed media/oil on canvas
