Artist Statement
In painting descriptive, outward realities, I am also describing people and places as human situations that carry implied narratives, which stretch out beyond the moment shown. Mostly, the situations I depict are quiet and domestic, which usually makes for still compositions and stories that are more internal than external. I want to defy the stillness of the painting, to portray a layered narrative where the residues of the past and suggestions of the future swirl around the present, creating a kind of “thick time.” To accomplish this, I use the scattered signs of daily existence to communicate accidental yet honest storylines that provide indirect insight into the cadence of a daily life.
Education
2003 MFA in Painting, University of New Hampshire, Durham NH
1999 BFA in Painting, Indiana University, Bloomington IN
Recent Selected Exhibitions
SELECTED SOLO
2010
Nicole
McCormick Santiago, Traylor
Gallery, Berea College, Berea KY
2008
Recent
Works, Visual Arts Center,
Tidewater Community College, Portsmouth VA
2007
Conflict
& Harmony, Three Graces
Gallery, Portsmouth,NH
SELECTED GROUP
2011
14th Annual National Juried Show, Gallery West, Alexandria VA
Small
Wonders National Juried Exhibition, Maryland
Federation of Art, Annapolis MD
2010
Allied
Artists of America Annual Exhibition, National Arts
Club Galleries, New York NY
Art
at the X 2010, Nat. Juried Exhibiton, Xavier University Art Gallery, Cincinnati OH
5th
National Juried Exhibition,
Axis Gallery, Sacramento CA
Visual
Narrative, Gallery 180, The Illinois Institute of
Art Chicago, Chicago IL
33nd Annual Art on Paper, Maryland Federation of Art,
Annapolis MD*
The Figure as Narrative: Compelling Allusions, Columbus State University, Columbus GA
Drawing Discourse, University of North
Carolina, Asheville NC
2010
Mid-Atlantic New Painting Exhibition,
Ridderhof Martin Gallery, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg VA
2009
Art
at the X National Juried Exhibition, Xavier University Art
Gallery, Cincinnati OH
22nd
Annual Northern National Juried Art Competition, Nicolet
College Art Gallery, Rhinelander WI
Third National Juried Exhibition, Prince Street Gallery, New York NY
Strictly
Painting 7, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean
VA
2008
Northern National Juried Art
Competition, Nicolet College Art Gallery, Rhinelander WI
The Family of Man, Charles
H. Taylor Arts Center, Hampton VA
Virginia
Artists 2008 Juried Exhibition, Charles
H. Taylor Arts Center, Hampton VA
Teeny
Tiny Art Show II, Three
Graces Art Gallery, Portsmouth NH
Selected Recent Grants, Awards, & Residencies
GRANTS
2010
Subvention Award, The
College of William and Mary
Full Fellowship Residency, Vermont
Studio Center
2007
William & Mary Summer Research Grant, The
College of William and Mary
AWARDS
2010
National Arts Club Award for Graphics, Allied Artists of America 97th Annual Exhibition, National Arts Club Galleries, New
York NY
Best
in Show, Pinnacle 2010:
National Juried Exhibition, Foster Tanner Fine
Arts Center, Tallahassee FL
Finalist, The Artist’s Magazine 27th Annual Art Compeition
Honorable Mention, The Artist’s Magazine 26th Annual Art Competition
Honorable Mention, Strictly Painting 7, Juror Vivian Lassman, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean VA
2008
Award of Merit, Virginia Artists 2008 Juried Exhibition, Charles H Taylor Arts Center, Hampton, VA
Finalist, The Artist’s Magazine 25th
Annual Art Competition
Special
Merit Award, Northern
National Juried Art Competition, Nicolet College Art Gallery,
Rhinelander, WI
RESIDENCIES
Vermont Studio Center, one month residency Jan 2010
Courses
2D Foundations
Color: Theory & Practice
Topics: Narrative Drawing
Drawing / Advanced Drawing
Life Drawing I / Life Drawing II / Advanced Life Drawing
Websites & Links
www.nicolemccormicksantiago.com