Nick Atkins 
Nocturne

November 07, 2019 – December 15, 2019

 

NIGHT

from somewhere comes the sound of water boiling

a trace of poison is medicine

a person violates another unaware

without words his heart drifts

toward another
into darkness
toward faint torchlight

-Shuntaro Tanikawa

Nick Atkins is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in New York City for the past 20 years. Atkins works with a wide range of media – from painting and sculpture, to film and furniture - yet he maintains a visual and conceptual ingenuity that is definitively his own. Most recently, Atkins has drawn inspiration from his ongoing fictional narrative script: “HANJI PARTY” as a vehicle to create sculptural artworks, which illustrate and reveal the strange worlds he has created to express his personal struggles and passion for life in all its extreme edges.

Astrological Body, 2019
Oil and airbrush on canvas
60 x 48 in

Bear pedestal, 2019
Stained wood
30 x 20 in

Life, 2019
Oil, airbrush, and acrylic on canvas
48 x 36 in

Luna Moth, 2019
Oil, airbrush acrylic on wood
15 x 10.5 in

Black and White Moth, 2019
Oil, airbrush acrylic on wood
12 x 8 in

Sequined Moth, 2019
Oil, airbrush acrylic, sequins on wood
8 x 13.5 in

Black Moth, 2019
Oil, airbrush acrylic, sequins on wood
12.5 x 7.5 in

Rainbow Moth, 2019
Oil, airbrush acrylic on wood
12 x 12.5 in

Death, 2019
Oil, airbrush acrylic on linen
48 x 36 in

Brown Moth, 2019
Oil, airbrush acrylic, sequins on wood
13 x 8.5 in

Skull Moth, 2019
Oil on wood
15 x 14.5 in

World Shrine, 2019
Mixed media
Dimensions variable