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Nicole Ratos Enerson
In and Out
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Artist Statement:
In the interval between exhale and inhale there is stasis. The body is momentarily emptied of air, a fleeting and silent punctuation of the otherwise constant in and out. This is the sort of balance found at the distant horizon where ocean meets sky, or at the point at which your finger touches its reflection in a mirror. Between taking in and expelling, or at the plane of separation, between any two equally opposing forces, there is a place of calm in which to meditate on the beauty of simply being.
My artwork encompasses several media, and is connected through common aesthetic and conceptual frameworks. I employ a minimalist vocabulary as well as figurative references in order to call attention to the material fact of the medium I am using, while also seeking to transcend it. The work in "In and Out" centers upon manifestations of breath as a vehicle to reflect upon the poignant dualities present in the human condition.
About the Artist:
Nicole Ratos Enerson was born in Illinois in 1979, and currently lives and works outside of Boston, MA. She received BFA's in painting and graphic design in 2001 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She went on to get her Masters of Fine Arts degree in painting from Cornell University in 2004, where she studied on a full fellowship. While in graduate school she was awarded the Hartell Award, the Charles Baskerville painting award, and a grant from the Cornell Council for the Arts.
Ratos Enerson is currently a Lecturer of Art at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, and faculty in the pre-college program at the Rhode Island School of Design. Ratos Enerson has shown her work through out the northeast and nationally. She was recently included in shows at the Mills Gallery in Boston, MA, the Danforth Museum of Art in Framingham, MA, the Woods Gerry Gallery at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, and Gallery 119 in Lowell, MA.
STEP UP 2010 is made possible with the generous support of Real Art Ways Members, the National Endowment for the Arts, Sandy and Howard Fromson, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism, the Alexander A. Goldfarb Memorial Trust, the Nimoy Foundation, the National Performance Network's Visual Artists Network, Lincoln Financial Group, Travelers and Greater Hartford Arts Council's United Arts Campaign.