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NICOLE
For me, there is painting and then there is the outside world. I have immersed myself in painting; my work has become an imagined world where I possess control, develop rules and systems, and organize chaos. My paintings are a series of steps I take to express my concept of place and utter love for the action of making. In the dialogue with my work, I display my unconscious mind, my emotional state, my primal landscape, my process and hand. Paired with my investigation into how our identities are affected when we are constantly displaced and forced to adapt to new environments, I feel I begin to understand little by little what is at the core of my work today. My works are a timeline of experiences, a constant, in an ever-changing world. EDUCATION 2016 | Master of Fine Arts, California College of the Arts 2010 | Bachelor of Arts, University of California Los Angeles RECENT EXHIBITIONS/PUBLICATIONS 2020 Emergencia Climática | Revista de la Universidad de México 2018 Scene Local | The Pearl | San Francisco, CA Root Division Fundraiser | Albion Hall | San Francisco, CA 2016 Dissolve Issue 2, /fôrm/ | R/SF Projects | San Francisco, CA Above Board | Embark Gallery | San Francisco, CA MFA Thesis Exhibition | Minnesota Street Projects | San Francisco, CA 2015 This is Not a Painting | Embark Gallery | San Francisco, CA 2012 Radiate | Raw Artists | San Diego, CA 2011 Drawing Expanse | Space 4 Art | San Diego, CA RECENT AWARDS 2016 Dennis Leon and Christin Nelson Scholarship Clyde & Co. Community Art Award | San Francisco, CA 2015 Clyde & Co. Community Art Award | San Francisco, CA |