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Linda Lee Nicholas is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in New York. Her practice engages non-traditional processes in mixed media that speaks about nature, and the
environment. Linda has a BFA from the School of Visual Arts, NYC and an MFA from Brooklyn College. Her work has been exhibited though out the US and Europe, including The Monmouth Museum, Lindcroft, New Jersey, The Stambaugh Gallery, Ohio Northern University, Ada, Ohio, The Everhart Museum, Scranton , PA, the Roberson Museum, Binghamton, NY and The Schneider Museum of Art in coordination with a catalog, Art Inspired by Science: Imaging the Natural World, which has been published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and The Pinch Journal, University of Memphis. Nicholas’ latest awards and honors include an Ora Lerman Trust Grant, Artist in Residence at the Golden Foundation in New Berlin, New York, A Cerf-Ravenel Travel Grant, a Residency Fellowship at the Museum Techniki in Mileniec, Poland, and Virginia Creative Center for the Arts, Amherst, Virginia, and most recent fellowship at I Park, East Haddam, CT, and Soaring Gardens, Laceyville, PA. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Golden Foundation, Monmouth Museum (NJ), the City of Rahway (NJ), the Everhart Museum in Pennsylvania and Brooklyn College. Nicholas lives in New York City, and has a studio at the Brooklyn Army Terminal through Chashama's Space to Create Program. Her work was recently shown in the three-person exhibition at Kingsbourogh Art Museum. Her work is currently shown at the Chester Gallery, Chester, Ct: Into the Woods- an exhibition of 8 fellowship alumni of the I Park Foundation, East Haddam, CT.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My work is an abstract representation that speaks about my overwhelming concern with our food, water, and air and the effect it has on our bodies, and environment. I like to describe it as abstract hinging on nature. I look to the natural world for inspiration: Invented hybrid forms that suggest disturbed organic creature like beings trying to survive in an environment that remains indefinable, weaving and shifting between whole and part, questioning and challenging our perception. The layering process starts with a spontaneous random gesture of a pour which then becomes more controlled as the piece is developed. Areas in the work remind us of machinery, connecting organs, pipes, roots, stems, pod like areas that mimic the flow inside the body along with the idea of the pod: a protective compartment where organisms can grow and shift. Obsessive movements, small details, compelling use of color, texture, along with biomorphic shapes push the 2-dimensional into appearing 3-dimensional. Looking to the natural world for inspiration: encounters, altered elements, fluids, solidified capsules, and evaporations. The work relays my trepidation about issues of nature, the environment and the fate of humanity and speaks of a complex understanding of the world in which we live and the one towards which we are heading.