Charcoal and mixed media on archival arches paper mounted on wood
62 inches x 24 inches
$20,000
Biography
Alex H Nichols is a U.S.A-based multi-media artist who combines performance, video, photography, painting, installation, and writing. She questions how we define ourselves, working with the contradictions of internal and external narrations. The dominant themes in her work are self, story, perception, desire, and potential. Her artistic practice puts her body through questions: Who am I today, yesterday, and tomorrow? What am I up against?
Her current works utilize diverse forms of the novel, installation, and performance. PINKBOX is an installation, sculpture, and performance developed in 2022 at the Djerassi residence that aims to discover how we navigate the roles of our lives and what it takes to impact change in our relationship to our societal, familial, and gender roles.
Alex H Nichols’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in Zonamaco 2023, Moca Taipei, Headlands Center for The Arts, Modernism Gallery, Re.riddle, and Minnesota Street Projects. She has participated in residences from Bamboo Curtain Taipei, Recology S.F., 18th Street Arts Center, and Djerassi. She has lectured at UC Berkeley and California College of Arts. She received her MFA in writing at California College of the Arts in 2011. Her interest in artist communities led her to build a collaborative (ALEXANDMUSHI 2015-2021) and a collective (THINK MAKE TANK 2015-2019) to promote open places of exploration around self-awareness, perspectives, and empowerment.
http://alexhnichols.com
instagram: @alexnichols