Patrick Nickell
Installation view. 2013
Bittersweet Reveries. 2012
Acrylic on plaster, burlap, metal screen & wire, on painted wood table
Sculpture: 25 ½ x 23 x 20”, table: 32 ½ x 26 x 22 3/8”
(PN13 01)
Resistance is Futile. 2012
Acrylic on plaster, metal screen & wire, on painted wood table
Sculpture: 23 ¾ x 27 x 24”, table: 32 ½ x 29 x 27 ¼”
(PN13 02)
Cave Dweller. 2012
Acrylic on plaster, burlap, metal screen & wire, on painted wood table
Sculpture: 22 ¾ x 21 x 16”, table: 32 ½ x 27 ½ x 21 1/8”
(PN13 03)
For Another Day. 2012
Acrylic on plaster, burlap, metal screen & wire, on painted wood table
Sculpture: 20 x 28 x 41”, table 28 3/8 x 26 x 48”
(PN13 04)
Outward Bound. 2012
Acrylic on plaster, burlap, metal screen & wire, on painted wood table
Sculpture: 35 ¾ x 19 ½ x 23”, table: 32 ¼ x 27 x 27 1/8”
(PN13 05)
Everlasting Journey. 2012
Acrylic on plaster, burlap, metal screen & wire, on painted wood table
Sculpture: 36 x 30 x 27”, table: 32 3/8 x 26 5/8 x 27 ½”
(PN13 06)
Installation view. 2013
Public Life. 2012
Acrylic on plaster, metal screen, wire & chain
49 x 44 x 32 ¼”
(PN13 07)
Do You Ever Wonder What’s Inside Their Heads? 2012
Acrylic on plaster, metal screen & wire, on painted wood table
Sculpture: 18 ¾ x 16 x 15 ¼”, table: 32 3/8 x 19 x 18 ¼”
(PN13 08)
A Humble Man. 2012
Acrylic on plaster, metal screen & wire, burlap, on painted wood table
Sculpture: 22 ¾ x 23 x 14 ½”, table: 32 ½ x 22 3/8 x 22”
(PN13 09)
Best of Both Worlds. 2012
Acrylic on plaster, metal screen & wire, on painted wood table
Sculpture, overall: 12 ¾ x 27 ½ x 19”
Left: 12 ¾ x 15 ½ x 18”, right: 11 ¾ x 16 x 13 1/4”
Table: 32 ½ x 27 ½ x 21 1/8”
(PN13 10)
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished. 2012
Acrylic on plaster, metal screen & wire, on painted wood table
Sculpture: 31 x 19 ½ x 43 ½”, table: 32 ¼ x 24 1/8 x 30”
(PN13 11)
For a Falling Man. 2012
Acrylic on plaster, metal screen & wire, on painted wood table
Sculpture: 31 x 42 ½ x 25”, table 32 ¼ x 35 x 25”
(PN13 12)
Untitled. 1990
Cardboard, plastic, paint
14 ¾ x 3 x 8 7/8”
(PN13 13)
Untitled. 1990
Cardboard, plastic, bubblewrap, marker
21 x 2 ¼ x 7 7/8”
(PN13 14)
Untitled. 1992
Tin, window screen
11 x 5 ½ x 7 ½”
(PN13 15)
Untitled. 1991
Cardboard, plastic, string & paint
27 x 15 ½ x 4 ½”
(PN13 16)
Animal Companions. 1998
Graphite on paper, framed
68 x 35 ¾”
(PN05 06)
Rosamund Felsen Gallery presents the fourth solo show of new sculptural work by Patrick Nickell. The exhibition “Letting Go” is comprised of color saturated large tabletop sculptures in which Nickell loosens his tight hold on strict abstraction and allows his figurative tendencies to emerge creating a new body of work steeped in fantasy. Nickell continues his exploration of spontaneous line, deviating from the curved flowing forms of his previous sculptures, by abruptly bursting the plaster sculptures at their ends. This exposure of tangled wire and burlap gives way to distinguishable forms: a falling figure, raised fists, protruding tongue. These forms are perhaps the explicit manifestation of the artist’s struggle to find his voice outside the realm of implicit abstraction.
Patrick Nickell is a Los Angeles-based artist. His work is included in, but not limited to, the public collections of the Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA; Berkeley Art Museum at the University of California, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA; and in Los Angeles at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and the Luckman Fine Arts Gallery at California State University. Nickell is also Associate Professor of Design Foundation at Woodbury University in the School of Media, Culture and Design, Los Angeles. In 2011 he was awarded the Faculty Development Grant at Otis College of Art and Design.