NICKOLA POTTINGER
The Armory Show
Focus
September 9 – 11, 2022
The Javits Center
New York, NY
Booth #F6
Press Release
Mrs. is very pleased to share a solo presentation of new works by Nickola Pottinger at The Armory Show 2022; on view at the Javits Center in New York, September 9 - 11, 2022.
Pottinger’s wall reliefs combine elements of drawing, collage and sculpture. She makes her own paper pulp upcycling cardboard and collected paper archives from her family home. These sculptural works often incorporate torn parts of earlier artworks, broken ceramics and organic materials, before drawing graphic compositions in pigment and oil pastel on the heavily textured and layered surfaces. Her large format and intensely gestural works reflect on Pottinger’s background as a dancer. Operating at such a scale, the artist builds the surface as an extension of her body, hiding as much content as revealed in the process. Inscrutable and mysterious, Pottinger’s reliefs transcend time, resembling fragments found in the present, the past or future. Language is also used as material; the artist often titles her works with Jamaican Patois, connecting the objects to a special place and personal history, while adding another layer of abstraction. The recycling and transformation of materials and the artist’s rejection of hierarchies in the work, lends an unstable quality, as nothing - including the imagery used - is easily identifiable.
Nickola Pottinger is an artist and curator born in Jamaica, West Indies. Raised in Brooklyn, she went on to earn her BFA from The Cooper Union in 2008. Recent exhibitions include the New Museum Triennial, New York, Galerie Julien Cadet, Paris, and the Galveston Artist Residency, Texas. Previous solo exhibitions include Parker Gallery, Los Angeles, Deanna Evans Projects, New York, NY and Brandeis University, Waltham, MA. The artist continues to live and work in Brooklyn, NY and will have her first solo exhibition with Mrs. in 2023.
Press
Two Critics, 13 Favorite Booths at The Armory Show
Siddhartha Mitter, New York Times
Hyperallergic Fall 2022 New York Art Guide,
Editors, Hyperallergic
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