Joshua Nickerson

Joshua Nickerson is a self-taught artist who has been living and marking art in Western New York since  2007 and exhibiting his work since 2010. His work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group shows  including at Buffalo Art Movement (BAM), El Museo, the Carnegie Art Center, University of Pittsburgh Barco and Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center. Initially starting out as a painter (acrylic and mixed media  on canvas), his studio practice transitioned to large-scale works on paper around 2015. He has also worked on printmaking with technical support from Mirabo Press. His work is primarily abstract, with some bodies of work such as his Parking Space series interrogating the boundaries between abstraction and representation. He has long been inspired by the variation and repetition of basic forms and patterns within natural, subatomic, and anatomical systems and structures, and their relationship of these to human-produced systems and structures and the built environment. His work invites the viewer to notice and consider details and subtle variations, as well as their own role in the interpretation of the work and the interplay of perspective and the construction of reality. Joshua currently lives in the city of Buffalo with his partner Leslie, their daughter Zoe, seven cats (including fosters) and a bearded dragon.