Patrick Nickell
Installation view. 2014
Installation view. 2014
Fly Your Flag. 2014
Plaster, wire screen, wire and burlap
24 x 24 x 19 7/8”
(PN14 01)
Big Dreamer. 2014
Plaster, wire screen, wire and burlap, on wood table
19 ¼ x 20 x 30”
table 32 ¼ x 25 x 35”
(PN14 02)
Pierre. 2014
Plaster, wire screen, wire and burlap
12 ½ x 10 x 11 ¼”
(PN14 03)
Bracing Oneself Thru. 2014
Plaster, wire screen, wire and burlap
45 ¾ x 16 x 27”
(PN14 04)
Steadfastly Thru. 2014
Plaster, wire screen, wire and burlap
23 x 26 ½ x 18 ½”
(PN14 05)
Hobbling Thru. 2014
Plaster, wire screen, wire and burlap
22 ½ x 16 x 35”
(PN14 06)
Skating Thru. 2014
Plaster, wire screen, wire and burlap
13 ¼ x 27 ½ x 16”
(PN14 07)
Slowly Thru. 2014
Plaster, wire screen, wire and burlap
3 x 19 x 23”
(PN14 08)
Super Supernational. 2014
Plaster, wire screen, wire and burlap
8ft 5 in x 6 ft 2 in in x 12 ft ½ in
(PN14 09)
Some Don’t Make It. 2014
Plaster, wire screen, wire and burlap
19 x 22 ½ x 25”
(PN14 10)
On Firm Ground. 2014
Plaster, wire screen, wire and burlap, on wood table
27 x 25 ½ x 24”,
table 32 ½ x 26 x 22”
(PN14 11)
Installation view. 2014
Glory Glory. 2013
Plaster, wire screen, wire and burlap
30 x 45 x 35 ½”
(PN14 12)
Country Kitchen. 2014
Plaster, wire screen, wire and burlap, on wood table
29 x 31 x 31”,
table 32 ½ x 35 x 35 1/8”
(PN14 13)
Hey Hey Hey. 2014
Plaster, wire screen, wire and burlap, on wood table
17 x 24 ½ x 29 ½”, 32 ¼ x 29 x 27”
(PN14 14)
River Boy. 2014
Plaster, wire screen, wire and burlap, on wood table
31 ½ x 26 x 28 ¾”,
table 32 ¼ x 30 x 30”
(PN14 15)
Anchors Aweigh. 2014
Plaster, wire screen, wire and burlap
69 ½ x 72 x 19”
(PN14 16)
Outpost. 2014
Plaster, wire screen, wire and burlap
40 ½ x 22 x 12 ½”
(PN14 17)
In Fly Your Flag, Patrick Nickell presents his latest exhibition of burlap, wire and plaster sculptures for his latest exhibition with Rosamund Felsen Gallery. Utilizing varying textures and materials, the sculptures engage in notions of the abstract, the figurative, and more specifically, the borders between the two.
Dimensionality and materiality are experimented with as some forms appear heavy, weighty and grounded while others appear agile and in flux. Color and their emotive properties are endowed or withheld with intent as the sculptures also explore a range of emotional states between confidence and vulnerability, while suggestions of narrative elements lend themselves to interpretation.
Playful, imaginative, emotive and contemplative, Fly Your Flag explores of the boundaries between abstraction and figuration, as well as the more personal territory of apprehension, hesitation, strength and resolve; and the interactions which occur when the familiar and the certain confront the unknown and the unexplored.