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An example of work by Roy W. Nicholson
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| The following is by ROY W. NICHOLSON:
Narrative Résumé
After receiving his National Diploma in Design (1965) from Hornsey College of Art, London--where he studied with Bridgit Riley and John Hoyland-- Nicholson attended the Brooklyn Museum School of Art, where he studied painting with Reuben Tam as a Max Beckmann Memorial Scholar. He later received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Vermont College of Norwich University, Vermont.
He has had 20 one-person exhibitions, including four in New York City. His work has been included in numerous group exhibitions, notably "AdoRnmenTs," which originated at the Bernice Steinbaum Gallery in SoHo and traveled nationally; a touring show to American consulates in Brazil; a print exhibition in Germany; and, under the auspices of the Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, at international art fairs at Miami and Los Angeles.
Nicholsons bibliography is extensive. His work is illustrated and discussed in Long Island Landscape Painting: Volume II, The Twentieth Century (Little, Brown, 1990), and Long Island (Crescent Books, 1986). His exhibitions have been reviewed in The New York Times, Newsday, the East Hampton Star, the Southampton Press, the Philadelphia Enquirer, Artspeak, Art & Antiques, and Long Island Life. Feature articles about him and his work have appeared in Country magazine, Dans Papers (featuring his painting on the cover), and Sunstorm. Video interviews with him have been broadcast on LTV Channel 27 (East Hampton) and Cablevision (Riverhead), deposited in the Archives of American Art, Washington, DC.
Nicholsons first solo exhibition in New York was at Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, in 1978. Since then, he has had one-person shows at Marymount Manhattan College Art Gallery, Condeso-Lawler Gallery and Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery in Manhattan. He has exhibited extensively in group exhibitions in Manhattan, including Condeso-Lawler, Katharina Rich Perlow, Bernice Steinbaum, Ludlow-Hyland, Nancy Moore Fine Art, and, at present, at the Doral Bank.
His work is in numerous private and several public collections, including the Royal College of Heralds, London; Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal; Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton; Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington; New Jersey Bell; and Texas Commerce Bank, Houston. His year-long project, 52 Weeks, was exhibited at the Heckscher Museum of Art in 1998. It has been purchased by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta for installation in the Banks new Robert Stern building. He has recently been awarded a major commission from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Arts for Transit program to create two, 7x33 feet glass mosaics for Hicksville station on Long Island.
As an extension of his work as a visual artist, Nicholson has collaborated on three major dances with the choreographer Karla Wolfangle, a former principal dancer for The Paul Taylor Company. Petit Sensations, for which he created costumes and a twenty-four-foot folding screen stage setting, was performed first at the 92nd. Street Y in Manhattan in 1994, and at the North Carolina School of the Arts in 1998. It was performed at Jacobs Pillow July, 2000 for Paul Taylors seventieth birthday. He designed the décor and costumes for Ms. Wolfangles Temperaments, at the Boston Conservatory of Music in 1996, and Strata, performed the same year at the DIA Center for the Arts in Manhattan.
Nicholson is Professor of Art at Southampton College of Long Island University, where he has taught since 1986. He received the Trustees Award for Scholarly Achievement in 2000.
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