Nicole Basilone

Born in New Jersey, Works in Jersey City, NJ

BIO

Nicole Basilone (b.1988, NJ, USA) completed undergraduate studies at Pratt Munson Williams Proctor (2009) and graduated from Maryland Institute college of Art and Design with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Painting and minor in Art History (2011). Past residencies include: Château Orquevaux (2018) and The Vermont Studio Center (2012). Her work has been exhibited in major US cities Detroit (MI),Chicago (IL), Oakland (CA),Philadelphia (PA),New York City (NY) and Baltimore (MD). In 2018 she landed her first solo exhibition at Mimi and Hill design studios in Westfield, NJ. In 2020 and 2021 She co-curated and exhibited in Spring Break Art show which was featured in Hyperallergic, Two Coats of Paint and Whitewall magazine. She lives and works in Jersey City, NJ.

You'll like Nicole if: your favorite Disney movie is Alice in Wonderland

The work I create is a synthesis of imagined and real landscapes. My work evolves from observation. Often my finished paintings are like collages, gathered from sketches I have done in “plein air” and mix them with fragments from my memory and imagination. My vision catalogs the emotional response triggered by earths’ abundant resources and ecosystems. The variety of marks in my paintings are about the speed of nature, the mood of the land and the shapes of the plants. The completed works reflect a fusion of real and imagined landscapes with occasional nods to historical works of art.

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