Primary Medium

Painting

Address

276 Greenpoint Ave
Brooklyn Art Studios – Building 9, Floor 6, Studio 640
Brooklyn, 11222

Artist Statement

Nicole James is a New York City painter recognized for her intimate, cinematic depictions of celebratory moments gone wrong. Foregrounding a dual interest in classical still life and contemporary narrative, James creates wildly saturated, quietly unsettling vanitas paintings that borrow from the visual language of film. Working within a lineage of artists such as Mapplethorpe and González-Torres, who transmuted the queer body into objects, and still life painters like Gijsbrechts, de Heem, and Flack, who constructed complex meaning through combinations of everyday things, James draws on collective symbolism to translate autobiographical experiences into a shared visual language, inviting viewers to project their own lived narratives onto the work. She has exhibited widely in New York City, with presentations at The Hole, Half Gallery, Future Fair, SPRING/BREAK, O’Flaherty’s, IRL, Room57, and Harsh Collective, and her work is held in various private collections.

Links

Website: http://www.nicolejames.nyc
Instagram: @nicolejames.nyc