Nick Chiado

Statement

b. 1999, Seattle WA

Based in Chicago

As an artist, Nick makes Sculpture. This stems from an impulse to describe three dimensions and not two. Sculpture is effective and Nick believes in working with the way things are. Working within a wide range of materials, processes, and experiences, Sculpture becomes an obligation to a way of dealing, sensitively and with a curious skepticism. Dealing with matter. Nick sculpts what he hopes objects will retain in an increasingly non-three-dimensional world. For him, The consideration of sculpture as sculpture being matter projecting outward into space exists as a stopping point which expands into all dimensions.

GlogauAIR Project

During my time at GlogauAIR, I hope to focus my attention towards the lesser known teachings and techniques of Josef and Ani Albers who explored material experimentation as a medium in and of itself. They taught ways to manipulate and contrast an unbounded variety of materials in efforts to create an awareness of Albers described as “how a material felt on the eye.”

By intuitively wallowing about a given amount of pre-determined material within a set of respected parameters. I will work to develop a nonhierarchical mode of testing Sculpture’s ability seen primarily within a declarative statement of material specificity. Through the investigation of material manipulation and documentation, Sculpture yet again becomes a means of developing a sensitivity to the irritating persuasiveness of matter.

CV Summary

Education

• 2021, BFA in Sculpture: School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

• 2019, Group Show: Betsey Gallery – Oxbow School Of Art and Artist Residency, Saugatuck MI
• 2021, Group Show: Betsey Gallery – Oxbow School Of Art and Artist Residency, Saugatuck MI

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