Nicholas Rynearson

Nicholas Rynearson is a multi-disciplinary artist, working in assemblage, collage, drawing, and painting, as well as conceptual work. His work tends toward abstraction, often using a reduced visual vocabulary to focus on formal elements and explore the material qualities of the media he works with. Found objects and non-decorative materials feature prominently and provide parameters within which individual works or series unfold. His work also draws inspiration from careful observation of art history, in particular the movements emerging from and responding to abstract expressionism.

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I seek a renewed relationship with nature grounded in mutual respect and an openness to its treacherous beauty. Across painting and time-based media, I consider Black femme engagements with flora, fauna, and geological forms, and build “optimistic imaginaries” that recognize our ecological disconnection while reaching beyond it.

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