Artist Nic Nicosia speaks with Nasher Chief Curator Jed Morse about his newly opened exhibition, which shines new light on the surprising second half of the noted artist’s five-decade career, tracking an evolution towards sculpture. Nic Nicosia: Everyday Surreal highlights the shift in the artist’s work over the past two decades, marked by a move away from elaborate sets, casts, and crews to a solitary studio practice focused on the production of a broad range of sculptures, drawings, and photographs. While maintaining a buoyant whimsy, Nicosia’s work became more inquisitive and philosophical, exploring themes of time, memory, and the psychological edges of everyday reality.
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About Nic Nicosia
Born in Dallas in 1951, Nic Nicosia is perhaps the most successful artist native to the city. His work has been included in numerous major national and international surveys including two Biennials at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, (in 1983 and 2000), Documenta IX in Kassel, Germany (1992), and the Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1983). He has also been the focus of a major survey exhibition (Real Pictures: 1979–1999) organized by the Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, that travelled from 1999–2001 to numerous national museums, including the Dallas Museum of Art and the Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art. Another retrospective was mounted by CASA Salamanca, Spain, in 2003. His work is now included in important museum collections worldwide, including The Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York; The Los Angeles County Museum of Art and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in California; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, The High Museum, Atlanta, and the Dallas Museum of Art; as well as the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, and SMAK (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst), Gent, Belgium. Nicosia is represented by Erin Cluley Gallery, Dallas.