Nicki Green, Three Fruitful Vines as a Fountain, 2024. Glazed earthenware, rubber, hardware, and water. Commissioned by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Courtesy the artist. Installation view, Scientia Sexualis, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, October 5, 2024 – March 2, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane/ICA LA.
We are delighted to announce this year's inaugural on-site exhibition: a solo presentation by sculptor Nicki Green. Presented in Al Held’s former drawing studio, the show will include a multimedia installation using ceramic vessels and water, plus new works created for the space. This will be the tenth RVAC-organized exhibition in the Drawing Studio since our partnership began in 2020. Nicki Green is curated by Liz Munsell, in partnership with River Valley Arts Collective and the Al Held Foundation.
Free public tours of the exhibition on April 6, April 14, and April 28. Please RSVP here.
Nicki Green is a transdisciplinary artist working primarily in clay. Often constructing heavily ornamented painted glaze surfaces and experimental, organic building techniques, she explores material and object integrity by utilizing transness as a lens with which to look at the world. Green has exhibited her work internationally, notably at the New Museum, New York; Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris, France, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco and as a part of La Biennale de Lyon, Lyon France. She has contributed texts to numerous publications including Transgender Studies Quarterly, Fermenting Feminism, Copenhagen and The Center for Arts Research publications, University of Oregon, Eugene. Green is a 2022 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award Winner, a 2022 Nancy Graves Foundation Grantee, and was a 2020 Art Matters Fellow. In 2019, she was finalist for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s SECA Award, and a recipient of an Arts/Industry Residency from the John Michael Kohler Art Center, among other awards and residencies. Originally from New England, she completed her BFA in sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2009 and her MFA in Art Practice from the University of California, Berkeley in 2018. Green is an Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Alfred University.