Patrick Nickell
EDUCATION
1985 MFA Sculpture, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA.
1983 BA Art, Linfield College, Mcminnville, Oregon.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Rory Devine Fine Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
2017 Suburban, Milwaukee, WI.
2016 Acme Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
2014 Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
2013 Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
2011 Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
2008 Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
Dust Gallery, Las Vegas, Nevada
2006 Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
2005 College of Creative Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara.
2004 ACME Los Angeles.
2003-05 “Patrick Nickell : Built For Speed, A Sculpture Survey”, Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles. Travel to the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum, Utah State University, Utah, Fall 2004; The University of Texas at San Antonio, Department of Art and Art History, Art Gallery, San Antonio, Texas 2005.
Published monograph to support exhibition
2002 Gallery 2211/ SolwayJones Gallery, Los Angeles.
1997 Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, "Sculptures, No Title."
1996 Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, "Drawings, No Title."
1994 Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles.
1993 Michael Kohn Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
1991 Sue Spaid Fine Art, Los Angeles
1990 Sue Spaid Fine Art, Los Angeles
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Differential Ontology, Curated by Khang Nguyen. Wonzimer, Los Angeles.
2018 Conceptual Craft 2 Denk Gallery, Los Angeles.
“Tomorrowland “, Curated by Rory Devine.CB 1 Gallery
“grace au dessin” Curated by Jason McKechnie Art Muir Montreal
2017 ExUrbe Curated by John David O’Brien ,Outpost Projects Joshua Tree
2015 “Oasis” Stuart Haga Gallery, Descanso Gardens, La Canada Flintridge, CA.
2013 “Spectra” San Diego State University Downtown Art Gallery, San Diego CA.
2009 “California Calling“, Works from Santa Barbara Collections. Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA.
“Back to the drawing board” Arin Contemporary Art, Laguna Beach CA.
Los Angeles Pierce College, Woodland Hills, Ca. (two person exhibition)
2006 “Reality is an activity of the most august imagination”,Curated by Andrew Hahn, Rental Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
“On the wall”, Eagle Rock Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA.
2004 “Obstractivist” Hales Gallery, London, UK
Dust Gallery, Las Vegas Nevada.
2003 “LAPD” Rosamund Felsen Gallery,Santa Monica, CA.
2001 “Inaugural Exhibition Part II” Gallery 2211, Los Angeles, CA.
“Cultivated”, Transamerica Pyramid Lobby, San Francisco, CA.
“ReCharge L.A. Art in the Early 90s, Laguna Beach Museum of Art.
2000 “it-bob-a-mu-cha-thing-call-what-ma”, Pasadena City College Art Gallery.
“Blurry Lines” Kohler Center for the Arts, Sheboygan WI.
“Sculpture By Four”, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
“Quiet Riot”, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA.
1999 “The Great Drawing Show”, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
“The Flower Show”, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
“Hubcap Diamond Star Halo”, Claremont Graduate University,Claremont, CA.
“East of Eden: Profane Gardens”, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University.
1998 "Love at the End of the Tunnel, or the Beginning of a Smart New Day," curated by Marilu Knode at the Center of Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA.
1997 "Quartzose," curated by Michael Darling at Galleri Tommy Lund, Denmark.
1996 "The Rational World," Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles.
"Blessings & Beginnings," Skirball Museum, Los Angeles, CA.
"MATERIALWISE," Galerie Markant Langelo, The Netherlands.
“Simple Means: Contemporary Sculpture from Los Angeles”, Montgomery Gallery, Pomona College, Claremont, CA.
"True Bliss," Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (L.A.C.E.)
1995 "Group Exhibition," Curt Marcus Gallery, New York.
1994 "Hooked On A Feeling," Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles.
"Red Rover, Red Rover," Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles.
"Utterings," Woodbury University, Los Angeles.
1993 ”Works on Paper”, Kohn Abrams Gallery, Los Angeles
“Germinal Notations”, Food House,Santa Monica.
“Paper Trails: The Eidetic Image”, Krannert Art Museum,university of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
“Mimosa”, Food House, Santa Monica.
1992 “A Drawing Show” Bliss Gallery, Pasadena, CA.
“Drawings”, Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Santa Monica.
1991 “Essentially Raw”, Sue Spaid fine Art, Los Angeles.
1990 Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles.
“Material Consequences” Otis Parsons At Gallery, curated by Anne Ayres (catalogue)
1988 “Four Solo Exhibitions”, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE)
1986 “Emerging Artist 1986” Riverside Art Museum.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2018 Collecting on the Edge Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University
2016 Doug Harvey, Modern Painters. Winter 2016/17 pgs. 93,94.
Lorraine Heitzman, Review, Art and Cake Sept.
2015 Kathleen Whitney, Sculpture Magazine, June pg. 69-70
2014 David Pagel, Review, Los Angeles Times Dec 22 Calendar Section page 2
2013 Christopher Knight “Abstract Forms Get Some Shape”, Los Angele Times, Friday, January 18 D4
2011 Eve Wood, LA Sculptors, Patrick Nickell: Unabashed Objects, art ltd., May/June pp 38-39
Christopher Knight, review, On A Sturdy Pedestal, Los Angeles Times, p D14, Feb. 18 2011
Peter Clothier, Gallery Rounds / Bergamot Station, The Huffington Post, Feb 16
2008 Christopher Knight “Creating tangled airy interlaces”,LA Times, Oct.3 E24
2006 Michael Duncan, “Opening Salvos in L.A.” Art in America , November.
David Pagel,”Scrawny forms command space”, Los Angeles Times, September 29, pg. E24-E25.
2004 Michael Duncan, review, Art in America April 2004.
2003 Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, Dec. 21 pg. E53.
Jenni Sorkin, review; Frieze, October issue 78 pg. 121.
Christopher Miles, review; Artforum, September pg. 232.
Peter Frank, “Arts Pick of the Week”, LA Weekly, July 4-10 pg. 153.
Louise Roug, “Mining the ephemeral”, Los Angeles Times, June 24,Calender pg. 3.
Christopher Knight, review, “Mundane and marvelous mixed ” Los Angeles Times, May 29 pgs. E4 and E5 .
1999 X-TRA, Cover image: front and rear, Volume II No. 2 Winter.
1998 Michael Duncan, review ; Art in America June.
Susan Kandel, review; Los Angeles Times.
1997 Richard Smith, "True Bliss at L.A.C.E.," Artweek, February, Vol.28.
1996 Susan Kandel, "Their Own World, Review," Los Angeles Times, January 25,p. F7
Peter Frank, "Pick of the Week, John Frame, The Rational World, Septet," L.A. Weekly, February 2 - 8, 1996, p. 115.
Christopher Knight, "Cultivated Randomness," Los Angeles Times, April 10,
1996 William Wilson, "Means Finds New Meanings in Old Schools of Thought," Los Angeles Times, September 7, 1996.
Carmine Innaccone, "Modern Times," L.A. Weekly, October 4 - 10, 1996.
1995 --------, ZYZZYVA, Spring 1995, Vol. X!, No. 1, p. 54 (reproduction).
JodyZellen, "Autumn in L.A." Art Press, January 1995, p.11-12.
1994 Christopher Knight, "The Highs Were High, the Lows Were Low," The Los AngelesTimes, Sunday, December 25, 1994, page 70.
Marlena Donahue, Review, Sculpture, November - December 1994, page 54.
Peter Frank, "Pick of the Week," L.A. Weekly,October 21-27, 1994.
Michael Duncan, "L.A. Rising," Art in America, December 1994, pp. 79-80.
Eva Forgács, "Kiállítások Los Angelesben," Balkon, November 1994, p. 35.
Carmine Iannacone, "Review," Art Issues, November-December 1994, p.44.
Susan Kandel, "Patrick Nickell's Stirring Mind Games," Los Angeles Times, Thursday, September 15, 1994.
David Pagel, "Playful, Impulsive Works Get 'Hooked on a Feeling'," LosAngeles Times, Thursday, July 21, 1994.
Michael Darling, "An Insistent Whimsey,"Artweek, August 18, 1994, vol. 25.
1993 David Pagel, “Galleries,” Los Angeles Times, Thursday, April 15, 1993 sec. Fpp.6-7.
1992 Michael Anderson, “Patrick Nickell, review” Art Issues, March-Ap
1992 Susan Kandel. “L.A. in Review,” Arts, February.
Robin Mitchell, Visions Magazine, Spring.
1991 Susan Kandel, “ L.A. in Review”, November.
David Pagel, “Ephemerality is Essential in Raw Exhibit”, Los Angeles Times, Thursday August 8, Calendar Section, F4.
1990 Peter Frank, “Art pick of the Week”, L.A. Weekly, December 27.
Christopher Knight, “Quirky Conception”, Los Angeles Times, Thursday, December 20, Calendar Section.
Shauna Snow, “The Scene”, Los Angeles Times, December 2, Calendar Section.
Margaret Lazzari,”Redefining Minimalism’s Boundaries" Artweek, March 15.
Peter Frank, “Art Pick of the Week”, L.A. Weekly, March 3
Kristine Mckenna, “Minimalism Focus of Material Consequences”, Los Angeles Times, February 12, Calendar Section.
1988 Christopher Knight,’Solo Times Four at L.A.C.E. “Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Friday May 20 p.4.
Exhibitions Curated
2017 “everything is coming up roses” LAVA. Los Angeles Visual Arts.
1998 “Blast Off”, Fred Hoffman Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA.
1996 “Hooked on a Feeling”, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles
Curated Exhibitions Reviewed
David Pagel, “Playful, Impulsive Works Get Hooked on a Feeling”, Los Angles Times, Thursday, July 21, 1994.
Michael Darling, “An Insistent Whimsy”, Artweek, August 18, 1994, vol 25, no.16,pg. 13.
David Greene, “Critics Choice”, Los Angeles Reader, August 26, 1994, vol.16, no.46, pg 23.
Permanent Public Collections
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA.
Luckman Fine Arts Gallery at California State University Los Angeles.
Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA.
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, Utah.
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara , CA.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Berkeley Art Museum at the University of California at Berkeley.
Grants, Fellowships and Awards
2014 John Simon Guggenhiem Memorial Foundation Fellowship
2004 ARC Grant, Durfee Foundation.
Artist in Residence
2016 Pilchuck Glass School
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