NICKOLA POTTINGER
Art Basel Miami Beach

December 6 - 10, 2023

Miami Beach Convention Center
Miami Beach, FL
Positions, Booth P13

 

Press Release

For our Positions booth at Art Basel Miami Beach, Mrs. is pleased to present new sculptures by Nickola Pottinger, an artist exploring themes of legacy, folklore, regeneration and reincarnation informed by her family’s origins in Jamaica. Pottinger’s new works take the form of bodies or mythological creatures and incorporate castings of her hands, feet, face and breasts. She engages in an upcycling process through her use of materials, generating paper pulp from old family documents which she molds like clay to form bodily shapes. Pottinger adorns the surfaces of her sculptures with raw materials including moss, an acknowledgment of the erosion of Jamaica’s forests and beaches due to climate change and the colonizing force of resort culture. She also incorporates familial objects into her works–chairs, benches, potholders or hair baubles–mixing items of utility and ornamentation that conjure the rooms and memories from her childhood. She refers to the works in this new series as ‘duppies,’ which is the Jamaican Patois word for ghosts, and in so doing, imbues in them aspects of spiritualism and folklore passed down through family stories. 

This is our second presentation of Nickola Pottinger’s work following her debut with Mrs. at the Armory Show in New York, 2022, which was reviewed by the New York Times. She will present a solo exhibition at Mrs. in January 2024 and will be the subject of a solo exhibition at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, CT, forthcoming June 2025. She was included in Soft Water, Hard Stone, the 2021 New Museum Triennial, New York. Other recent exhibitions include Chapter NY, Sargent's Daughters, New York; Swivel Gallery, Brooklyn; NY, Galerie Julien Cadet, Paris; and the Galveston Artist Residency, Texas. Previous solo exhibitions include Parker Gallery, Los Angeles and Deanna Evans Projects, New York, NY. Born in Jamaica, West Indies and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Pottinger earned her BFA from The Cooper Union in 2008. 

Nickola Pottinger’s work will be on view at Art Basel Miami Beach, Positions, Booth P13, December 6-10, 2023. For more information please contact hello@mrsgallery.com.

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