ABOUT
(checking salt rings in New Harmony)
Hello and welcome! If you want to get in touch, reach me at natalie.nich@gmail.com. I'd love to hear from you! Or keep up with me on insta @nitnatnicholson
A little about me-- I'm from smack dab in the middle of rural Iowa and I received my BFA Ceramics from The University of Iowa in 2019. I was an artist in residence at Northern Clay Center, MN and at New Harmony Clay Project, IN. I've coordinated and instructed clay classes at Seward Cafe Free Space, worked in production pottery as well as many odd jobs, and I've exhibited work around the Midwest and internationally. I am currently attending the University of Arkansas as a post-baccalaureate.
This moment's artist statement:
Particles within a lump of clay can be arranged in an infinite number of ways. Pieces can be glazed and fired repeatedly, left outside to weather, broken and stuck back together, flipped over and stacked on top of one another, any additional material can be incorporated, any number of technological edits can be made, and pieces worn into cohesion can rest in many places on Earth or float around in any virtual reality.
Given these boundless options, I’m inspired to think my work has the potential for any appearance. I try to invoke forms from that hidden, yet-to-be-imagined realm by relying on serendipity and curiosity to uproot pieces. I’m drawn to forms and settings which, when completed, hint at movement and growth-- those that suggest swaying plants, the chaotic pulsing of microscopic creatures, planetary motion, orgasmic alien energies, or the gurgling of swamps and human organs.
To explore sculptures as inter-dimensional objects and move beyond their physical limits, I often place work into virtual spaces and make digital alterations. The pieces I brought into the physical world are thus blurred into less tangible places yet again. This process multiplies singular pieces; one ceramic object exists alongside various digital images that have the capacity to be projected, printed, or interacted with through virtual reality. These coexisting versions of the same artwork call into question reality, authenticity, truth, and the intersection of celestial and cyber spaces.
My CV :
Nat Nicholson | natalie.nich@gmail.com | natnicholson.com
EDUCATION
2023 Current Post-Baccalaureate in Ceramics, The University of Arkansas
2019 BFA Ceramics, The University of Iowa, Iowa City IA
2018 Studio Arts College International, Florence Italy
RESIDENCY
2022 Artist in Residence, New Harmony Clay Project, New Harmony IN
2019 Emerging Artist Resident, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis MN
EXHIBITIONS
2022 Upcoming Group Show, TBD, Windgate Studio, Fayetteville AR
2022 Upcoming Solo Exhibition, Waving Hello, pH Gallery, Fayetteville AR
2022 Upcoming Group Show, Filled Up 3, New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, New Harmony, IN
2022 Upcoming Solo Exhibition, Entity, Ramble Park, Fayetteville AR
2022 Residence VI, New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, IN
2021 Emerging Artist Grant Recipients, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis MN
2020 NCC at NCECA Virtual Gallery Expo, virtual
2019 No One Knows What to do with It, Visual Arts Building, Iowa City IA
2019 Collaboration of All the Arts, Revival, Iowa City IA
2019 Earthwords Arts Showcase, PS1, Iowa City IA
2019 Honors in Studio Art, Visual Arts Building, Iowa City IA
2019 Intermedia Open House, Visual Arts Building, Iowa City IA
2019 Solo Exhibition, *****à, Art Building West, Iowa City IA
2019 Earthwords 39 Launch, Prairie Lights, Iowa City IA
2019 View from the Summit, River City Housing Collective, Summit House, Iowa City IA
2019 The Collective: Graduate Exchange Show, Art & Design Gallery, Lawerence KS
2018 Improvisation for The Piano, Voxman Concert Hall, Iowa City IA
2018 Sacra Mundanam, Levitt Gallery, Iowa City IA
2018 Fabrication and Experimentation, Drewelowe Gallery, Iowa City IA
2018 Solo Exhibition, Wander, Visual Arts Building, Iowa City IA
2018 Authorize/Acquiesce, Iowa Memorial Union Pedestrian Bridge, Iowa City IA
2018 The Blare Pinch Project, Visual Arts Building, Iowa City IA
2018 Vertigo: It's Time We Talk, Waterloo Center for the Arts, Waterloo IA
2018 Untitled Body Arts, Palazzo Jules Maidoff, Florence Italy
2018 Selected 2 and 3D Practice, Palazzo dei Cartelloni Gallery, Florence Italy
2018 Il Filo degli Altri, Palazzo dei Cartelloni Gallery, Florence Italy
2017 Feminist Voices Showcase, PS1, Iowa City IA
2016 Anabasis, Mitchell Cemetery, Boone IA
2015 Heart of Iowa Activities Conference, Baxter IA
RELATED WORK
2020 Arts Coordinator and Instructor, Seward Cafe Free Space, Minneapolis MN
2020 Finisher, Grey Fox Pottery, Minneapolis MN
2018 President of Children of the Clay a University of Iowa Student Organization
FELLOWSHIPS/SCHOLARSHIPS/AWARDS
2019 2019 Anonymous Artist Studio Fellowship – Northern Clay Center
2017 Iowa Abroad Scholarship - The University of Iowa
2015 Four-year academic UI Old Gold Scholarship
2015 Four-year academic UI Iowa Scholars Award
2015 Best in show - Heart of Iowa Activities Conference
LECTURES
2022 New Harmony Clay Project Resident Artist Talk
2021 Northern Clay Center Emerging Artist Residents, NCC, Minneapolis, MN
2019 The Collective: Graduate Student Exchange, Lawrence, KS
PUBLICATIONS
2019 The Three Graces published in earthwords 39
2019 Scry published in earthwords 39
COLLECTIONS
New Harmony Clay Project Permanent Collection
Lorenzo Pezzantini's Il Filo degli Altri (The Filo of the Others) - Florence Italy
River City Housing Collective - Iowa City IA
DIGITAL FOOTPRINT