August 3 – September 14, 2014

1037 SIlvermine Rd., New Canaan, CT, www.silvermineart.org

Curated by Deana Haggag, Director of The Contemporary, Baltimore, MD.

Program: Tuesday, August 26, 2014 at 6:00 pm

I will be one of 4 artists invited to speak at Silvermine Galleries Walk and Talk

I am showing a new series in collage (black and white painted papers) titled TRIANGLES into DIAMONDS. The first 4 works in the series are included in A Guild Group Show (August-September 2014) at the Silvermine Galleries, New Canaan, CT.

I will speak about the new works at 6:00 pm on Tuesday, August 26, 2014 at the Silvermine Arts Center WALK and TALK program. I am one of 4 artists in the program. Visit the Silvermine Galleries Wednesday-Saturday 12 pm-5pm and Sunday 1pm-5pm. Directions: http://www.silvermineart.org/visit/hours.php

TRIANGLES into DIAMONDS is a new series about geometric shapes in a grid. I am building open and closed spaces with paper collage.

I paint papers for every collage. This series is in black and white because I want to focus on opposites and contrast light and dark, open and closed (spaces) even and uneven (edges), clean and dirty (smudged) papers. Two of the 4 works are framed; two are open and exposed. I want you to see the papers are vulnerable.

I mix Titanium white acrylic with a speck of Azo Yellow to create warmth. Pure white is cold. I mix Ivory, Carbon and Mars black acrylics with a dot of Pyrole Red to open it up. Some artists work with thin black washes. They’re weak. I want impasto -but solid blacks are opaque and impenetrable. I want open. I add a speck of black to white papers to muddy them up. I want impure. I hope that what you see is more than black and white. I want a dialog between papers: color against color, shape against shape.

© Nancy Egol Nikkal, July 2014

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