Reid Nicholls is an American artist from Ohio, where he studied and received his BA in Visual Communications Technology at Bowling Green State University. He studied studio art at Hunter College in New York City and received his MFA in Studio Art, emphasis is ceramic sculpture from Indiana University Bloomington’s School of Art & Design. Nicholls is an educator, sculptor, and ceramic artist currently living and working in New Orleans, Louisiana. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently in Hundisburg, Germany at the Terra Arte Symposium as well as the 2018 “No Dead Artist” Group Exhibition at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery in New Orleans.
Contact at reidnicholls@gmail.com
“The Body is the measure of everything. I am interested in the truth and untruth of that statement. The body expressed in history and culture as object, boundary, system and the politic, form the conditions of our lives. My work focuses on these societal metaphors and explores ideas of the “healthy body” and its contradictions. Through my sculpture and installations referencing the body, I investigate the consequences of the politics of exclusion and the dehumanization of people in our society; question agency of the body’s labor, and the base systems of the body like the digestive system that reveal abundance and waste. With the use of symbolic imagery paired with figurative elements I create abstract situations that disrupt the perspective of the viewer and create a space for contemplation.”