Artists in Venice - Nickerson
10 May - 1 June 2008
On exhibit:
“MOSAICS AND REFLECTIONS”: Susan Adams Nickerson at Giudecca 795 Art Gallery, Venice
Opening hours: Tuesday to Friday 3.30 pm - 8 pm; Saturday and Sunday 10 am - 12 am / 3.30 pm - 8 pm. Closed on Monday. Free adm. Fondamenta S. Biagio 795, Giudecca. Actv waterbus 41-42-2, Palanca. - Info (+39) 3408798327.
Susan Adams Nickerson’s exhibition of exquisite, poignant mosaics opens on May 10th at the 795 Gallery on the Giudecca until June 1st, 2008.
The artist plays on three themes interwoven by the media of found objects, mosaics, ink and mortar. Venice is evoked in the theme of relics and reliquaries: small precious objects caught in glass. Birds’ feathers, cats’ whiskers become votive objects. Her mosaics are often built around fragments of old distressed mirrors ‘with a past’ of their own. Literature is evoked by words in mosaic form: letters as tesserae, words as painting, and painting as words. The rhythms of the spoken word are redefined: one listens to these mosaics, absorbing the artist’s conviction that writing is in itself art. Finally, the artist brings into play the nature of her own medium, the mosaic itself: an interplay of colour and texture, light and concealment, and softness and permanence.
About the Artist:
Susan Adams Nickerson was born on Long Island, New York, in 1948. As a young girl she attended drawing classes at The Arts Students League in New York. She graduated from the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts, in Boston, Massachusetts and then came to Venice in 1972 to take a course in mosaics with Prof. Antonio Orsoni. Later she studied painting with Prof. Mario de Luigi. In 1975 she won a scholarship for Applied Arts at the Collective Exhibition at the Opera Bevilacqua La Masa in Venice and had her first one woman show there.
She has shown her work in exhibitions in Italy and abroad.
She works in various media: mosaics, cloth collage often using clothing labels, and paper collage with various “found” objects (candy wrappers, stamps, etc.) and drawing.
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