3/28: CLOSING EVENT: Terence Nicholson

The Human Factor Fractured
Terence Nicholson

3/28: 7-10pm • $10 suggested donation
Light Food & Beverages served
Tickets: http://terencenicholson.eventbrite.com/

Come celebrate the final night of The Human Factor Fractured with Artist Terence Nicholson and special guests from Contradiction Dance, Dance Afire, Shakra, and more!

I am interested in materials first and foremost. For a long time, I have entertained the notion that I need not always load my work down with content. It was a trap that one of my teachers freed me from before both feet got caught into it. Many people ask me, “What does it mean?” I like to give them relief by telling them something like, “It's just some shapes.” Sometimes, I am compelled to express my feelings about a thing through the use of materials. Even in this case, I try to divorce myself form the the content and delve more into the actual process. At the level of production, I try to achieve an almost passive attitude towards the process, in some cases. I like to see myself as a middle man between materials, shapes and techniques. I am in a constant state of build and destroy; accumulation and shedding. I seem to be attracted to the beauty inherent in the most mundane of objects. Rust, tools, soil, etc. I respect the principles of composition, so I trust my ability to bend them. An old artist told me that if I know the rules, I can bend them. If I don't know the rules, I will break them. As I have been training in kung fu for over 15 years and composing music, I allow these disciplines to influence my way of doing things. The paintings and the sculpture come out of a need for expression not satiated by any other means. I hope that as I finish writing this, I will have evolved beyond what was written.

Nicholson fuses unlikely materials into works that sing life’s complexities

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