Malcolm Nicoll
George Bernard Shaw famously said, "without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable." There's more to life than what we can sense on the physical plane. It's my sincere wish to help you and I fulfill the need to reach other horizons; to experience and to feel that other realm of the spiritual via the creative process. Just like there is ultimately one God, I believe that there is ultimately one Art. My inspiration in creating art is not only to document my evolution as an artist but more importantly to attempt to make all aspects of life a work of art; to feel and activate our divine gift for creating and expanding beauty in an often times harsh and crude world. Not strictly in the virtual arts, but in all concepts and ideas.
George Bernard Shaw famously said, "without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable." There's more to life than what we can sense on the physical plane. It's my sincere wish to help you and I fulfill the need to reach other horizons; to experience and to feel that other realm of the spiritual via the creative process. Just like there is ultimately one God, I believe that there is ultimately one Art. My inspiration in creating art is not only to document my evolution as an artist but more importantly to attempt to make all aspects of life a work of art; to feel and activate our divine gift for creating and expanding beauty in an often times harsh and crude world. Not strictly in the virtual arts, but in all concepts and ideas.
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"An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion."
-Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) |
MALCOLM NICOLL __________________________________________________________ PHONE: 510.282.9426 EMAIL: malnicoll@gmail.com EDUCATION: 1982 BFA University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO 1986 BA Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO SELECTED EXHIBITIONS: 2017-2021 F. Dorian Gallery, San Francisco, CA Vault Gallery, Cambria, CA Brea Art Gallery, Brea, CA 2016 East Bay Open Studios at Market Hall, Oakland, CA Hodgepodge Glass Open Studios, Berkeley, CA Sacramento Fine Arts Center, Carmichael, CA Crucible, Oakland, CA 2015 Crucible, Oakland, CA Olive Festival, Fremont, CA F. Dorian Gallery, San Francisco, CA Vault Gallery, Cambria, CA East Bay Open Studios at Market Hall, Oakland, CA Expressions Gallery, Berkeley, CA Richmond Arts Center, Richmond, CA 2014 East Bay Open Studios at Market Hall, Oakland, CA Art on the Square, Redwood City, CA Lafayette Art Gallery, Lafayette, CA Expressions Gallery, Berkeley, CA Crocker Art Museum Store, Sacramento, CA Crucible, Oakland, CA 2013 East Bay Open Studios at Jack London Square, Oakland, CA Healdsburg Center for the Arts, Healdsburg, CA Expressions Gallery, Berkeley, CA Seekers Gallery, Cambria, CA Vault Gallery, Cambria, CA Sacramento Fine Arts Center, Carmichael, CA Crocker Art Museum Store, Sacramento, CA 2012 East Bay Open Studios at Jack London Square, Oakland, CA CK Gallery, Oakland, CA Healdsburg Center for the Arts, Healdsburg, CA 2011 East Bay Open Studios at Jack London Square, Oakland, CA San Francisco Open Studios, San Francisco, CA Art Span, Kearny Street Workshop 2010 Benicia Arts Expressions Gallery, Berkeley, CA East Bay Open Studios at Jack London Square, Oakland, CA San Francisco Open Studios, San Francisco, CA Crucible, Oakland, CA 2009 San Francisco Open Studios, San Francisco, CA Building Art for Kids, Art Auction Benefit, San Francisco, CA Hospice of Napa Valley, Art Auction Benefit, Napa, CA San Francisco Open Studios, San Francisco, CA Benicia Arts Festival, Benicia, CA Gallery One, Petaluma, CA 2008 Building Art for Kids, Art Auction Benefit, San Francisco, CA Hospice of Napa Valley, Art Auction Benefit, Napa, CA 2007 Building Art for Kids, Art Auction Benefit, San Francisco, CA Hospice of Napa Valley, Art Auction Benefit, Napa, CA Yard Sale Gallery at Pacific Beach, San Diego, CA Mezzanine Gallery at Hotel Triton, San Francisco, CA 2006 Polarity Post Productions, San Francisco, CA 2005 Bayshore Film & Stage (Artworks) San Francisco, CA COMPETITIONS: 2017 4th Clay & Glass Biennial: Juried and Invitational Exhibit 2016 Merit Award, Magnum Opus XXVII Sacramento Fine Arts Center, Carmichael, CA 2015 "California Now" Juried Exhibit of Clay, Glass & Enamel Art Richmond Arts Center, Richmond, CA 2014 “Making the Everyday Unique” Functional Clay & Glass from ACGA Lafayette Art Gallery, Lafayette, CA 2011 National Juried Exhibit: “Neither Here Nor There” Art Span/Kearny Street Workshop, San Francisco, CA PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS: Glass Art Society Association of Clay & Glass Artists of California Glass Alliance of Northern California (GLANC) PUBLICATIONS: American Art Collector (Juried Competition of New York) 2015 Alcove Books, Berkeley, CA Ultimate Backyard M.Kodis, Gibbs Smith Publisher 2006 The Box (It’s the Cover) Urbanview, 2002 v. 04 no. 06 |