BR1633

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Tucker Nichols
BR1633
2016

About the Item

In the New York Times, leading art critic Roberta Smith writes about this new series of paintings by Tucker Nichols, which includes this piece: "Rendered in enamel on wood panel, these hardy works are essentially abstract, itinerant paintings that vibrate with energy. Their simple shapes and rudimentary drawing recall images of the American limners who roamed colonial and postcolonial New England painting portraits of families and decorating their walls with murals. But the works’ flattened space, dense tactile surfaces, random drips and sharp, solid colors are very much of the moment, as is their boisterous scale. They self-identify as new. Part of the modernity and joy of Mr. Nichols’s paintings is the suggestion that all the elements in a composition are autonomous. The spherical flowers could easily bounce away; the bladelike leaves could launch themselves in one direction or another. The pictures are all temporary arrangements that will scatter as soon as you look away. That they seem eager to do so is part of their strength." The series is simply titled FLOWER PAINTINGS, and the works are united by the sophistication and bold exuberance that co-exist throughout Nichols’s work, exemplified by this piece. While investigating the long tradition of depicting floral still life, Nichols is actively thinking about the ability of both flowers and art to serve as abstract tools to convey important things we just don’t know how to say: "Flowers are a secret language nobody understands. I’m guessing that over the ages, different flowers have conveyed critical messages among queens and spies and lost lovers. This kind of tulip, that color rose. A certain number of willow branches. No doubt world history has been shaped by these coded messages in ways we will never realize. And the same flowers can say completely different things. Congratulations. I’m sorry. I love you. I can’t believe you’re gone. Flowers weirdly don’t really mean anything except meaningfulness. And then they’re gone." – Tucker Nichols Tucker Nichols lives and works near San Francisco. His work has been featured at the Drawing Center in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Denver Art Museum, Den Frie Museum in Copenhagen, the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, and will be exhibited at the Aldrich Museum in 2017. Specials (2016), a series of 50 works commissioned by SFMOMA for the restaurant in their new building, which was unveiled in June 2016. His drawings have been published in McSweeney's, The Thing Quarterly, Nieves Book and the Op-Ed pages of The New York Times. He has collaborated on two children’s books, Crabtree, with his brother Jon Nichols, and This Bridge Will Not Be Gray, with author Dave Eggers. He is currently working on an illustrated memoir about flowers, art and illness.

Creator:
Tucker Nichols (1970, American)
Creation Year:
2016
Dimensions:
Height: 24 in (60.96 cm)Width: 17 in (43.18 cm)
Medium:
Enamel,Wood Panel
Period:
21st Century
Condition:
Gallery Location:
New York, NY
Reference Number:
Seller: IN70421stDibs: LU811081993