I find inspiration in various depictions of temporal and spatial absurdity. One example is William Hogarth's False Perspective. His image is seemingly irrational with unusual overlapping and reverse foreshortening. It challenges our perceptions and offers us an unconventional alternative to the way that we perceive space.
Drawing allows me to explore some of the paradoxical issues of time and space. Some of my images refer to cubism. They depict objects seen through multiple vantage points. Others attempt to examine the pictorial possibility of multiple objects/bodies occupying the same space simultaneously. The images are my personal investigations of things that are otherwise impracticable in the physical world. Ultimately, they help me question the nature of my existence in a mulit dimensional universe.
born: 1973, St. Louis, Missouri
education
Fontbonne University, MFA 2000
Fontbonne University, MA 1999
Fontbonne University, BFA 1997
selected awards/honors
Merit Award, "2006 All Kentucky Juried Fine Art Exhibition", Capital Arts Alliance, 2006
Peoples Choice Award, "Educators in Art / Art in Educators", St. Peters Cultural Center, 2002
Bradley Jenson Award, "In your Face, National Juried Portrait Exhibition", St. Louis Artists Guild, 2001
selected
publications
Mobile Register, Arts and Liesure section, Mobile Alabama, page 1, March 20th, 2005
Mobile Entertainment Guide, Mobile Alabama, Volume 1, Issue 6, page 10, 2005
Video documentary, "The People Project" St. Louis, Missouri, 2001
selected solo or two-person exhibits
"Michael Nichols and Jason Lascu", Capital Arts Alliance, Bowling Green, KY, 2007
"Mike Nichols - Selected Works", Volunteer State Community College, Gallatin , TN, 2006
"Mike Nichols and Brent Oglesbee", Watkins College of Art and Design, Nashville, TN 2006
"Paradigm Shifts - Recent art by Michael Nichols" University Gallery @ Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY 2005
selected
group shows
"It's in your Head: Approaches to Likeness", Manifest Creative Research Gallery, Cincinatti OH, 2007
"National Drawing Annual" Manifest Creative Research Gallery, Cincinatti OH, 2007
"2006 Annual All Kentucky Juried Fine Arts Exhibit" Capital Arts Alliance, Bowling Green KY, 2006
"Contemporary Realism" Center for the Living Arts, Mobile AL, 2005
