Nicolas Party

Profile (Portrait)

2016

Archival pigment print on cotton paper. Edition of 75 plus 20 Artist Proofs. No.9/75. Signed and numbered by the artist.

Archival digital print on Hänemuhle etching paper. This piece is part of a limited edition of 250 prints.

Kenny Schachter "Pay Nothing". Archival digital print on wove paper. Published in 2020. Edition of 60. Hand signed and numbered by the artist, verso. ‘At the height of Covid, various activist groups arose to protect artists and others from unlawful evictions for non-payment of rent due to their lack of earning capacity by an economy that all but ground to a halt—other than for the multinationals that always seem to prosper in times of crisis. One such grassroots advocacy initiative in April of 2020, was CANTPAYMAY which I spotted on artist Nicole Eisenman’s Instagram feed by way of a poster she created which proclaimed: “RENT STRIKE! STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH THOUSANDS OF NEW YORKERS ON RENT STRIKE DURING #CANTPAYMAY. WITH MILLIONS OF NEW YORKERS OUT OF WORK, WE CAN AND MUST #CANCELRENT. SIGN THE RENT STRIKE PLEDGE TO JOIN THE MOVEMENT!” Pay Nothing is an appropriation of Ed Ruscha’s 2003 painting Pay Nothing Until April; though Ruscha attempts to disclaim meaning in his text works, it clearly references the loaded notion of having to pay-up in April, which is when both State and Federal taxes are owed across the country, as all US taxpayers are only painfully all too aware. “Says Ruscha: ‘I’m empty headed in many ways, and don’t know why I follow what I follow. Like most people, I operate on an automatic mode, and everything is an involuntary reflex. Logic flies out of the window when you’re making a picture, at least it does with me. And thank God it does.’” @tate In the context of the Covid pandemic, Pay Nothing signifies the fact that if a population is deprived of the means to earn a living, we still must eat and have a roof over our heads to feed and shelter ourselves and families. For, if we don’t have the ready capacity to provide, as Malcom X...

Woodcut on BFK Rives paper, produced in 2020. Edition of 100. Mint condition, unframed. Signed and numbered in pencil by Nicolas Party.

A laminated Giclée print on aluminium panel. Produced in 2021. Edition of 862. Hand signed and numbered on verso label by Damien Hirst.

Published by the Royal Academy

Signed, titled and numbered in pencil by the artist. Edition size: 30. "The central theme of my works is man and his inner world. I use numerous religious, mythological and historic...

Signed and titled artist proof. Mezzotint portrait of a musician playing a baritone. Suarez is from Mexico, and exhibits internationally, winning awards for his evocative mezzotint...

Carol Wax's mezzotint, "Apple Peeler II", shows the simple tool influenced in part by Yves Tanguy. It was created in 1992 an edition of 50. This image is...

Carol Wax's mezzotint, "Singer I", shows a distorted view of an old Singer sewing machine. The artist created a convincing illusion of real mass, space and depth. Issued in an edit...

Carol Wax's mezzotint, "Singer III", shows the wheel view of an old Singer sewing machine. It was conceived more of imagination than reality. Issued in an edition of 50, this image...

Carol Wax's mezzotint, Singer II looking at the end of the typewriter portrays the incised metal and the wood grain of the machine. It was issued as an edition of 75. This image is i...