Nic Nicosia: Everyday Surreal is a survey of the last 25 years of the artist’s five-decade career that reveals the material and conceptual evolution of one of the city’s most important living artists. With a fresh focus on his turn to sculpture in the 2010s, the exhibition will feature over 70 three-dimensional works, drawings, photographs, and films made since his mid-career survey in 1999–2000, in an installation evocative of the subtly surreal environments conceived in the artist’s work.
Born in Dallas in 1951, Nic Nicosia came to prominence in the 1980s as part of the Pictures Generation, an unofficial group of artists practicing in the 1970s and 80’s who questioned the authenticity of images and their role in shaping perceptions. He is best known for his photographs and films depicting everyday life—moments quietly quirky or completely gone awry—with costumed actors in brightly-colored sets including real objects with artist-made simulacra and hand-drawn or painted images. These photographic works exemplified a unique vision that dove-tailed nicely with broader Postmodern trends in contemporary art also represented in the work of artists such as Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons, and Jeff Wall, earning him notice in important exhibitions such as the Whitney Biennial in New York (1983 and 2000), Image Fabrique at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (1983), and Documenta IX in Kassel, Germany (1992).
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133 pages.
Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-7336812-6-1
