If there is a common thread running through Nick's work, it is an elegance, a paring down of detail and a fascination with organic shapes and tactile quality.
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Phil Schirmer
"Amalgamations of Stone, Flesh and Flower"
Leisure Weekly, 12 October 1989

Poetry in Stone : : Biography

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I have been carving stone and making sculptures for thirty years. During the 1990’s I created a large body of stone, wood and metal sculptures at the old Vermont Marble Company site in West Rutland, Vermont. Carving daily at my studio on the quarry enabled me to experience a vivid connection with the men who had cut and shaped the stone. I learned to appreciate its elemental magnetism for our ancestors and for us. My work is an ongoing effort to fashion physical metaphors from the stone that connect our ancestors to us and our progeny. My art is organic, abstract and elemental.

The ORIGINS show at UCONN, Avery Point, is my effort to convey some sense of the mystery of beginnings and begettings.

Exhibitions

2009	UCONN, “Origins” Solo Show • Avery Point, CT
2001-09	SPA Gallery, “Rock Solid” Stone Shows • Barre, VT
2008-09	Roadside Art Market • Bomoseen, VT
2008	Art and Antiques • Rutland, VT
2008	Polonaise Gallery • Woodstock, VT
2007	New England Garden Ornaments, “Stone Show” • Hardwick, MA
2007	Sculpt Fest • Woodstock, VT
2007	Pegasus Gallery • Queeche, VT
2007	Hudson Art Gallery • Keene Valley, NY
2006	ART HOP • Burlington, VT
2006	UCONN, “Sculpture Walk”, Outdoor Installation • Avery Point, CT
2006	Corscaden Art Barn • Keene Valley, NY
2006	Chaffee Art Gallery, Outdoor Installation • Rutland, VT
2006	SPA Gallery, “ARTS-R-US” Group Show • Barre,VT
2005	Clinton Art Society • Clinton, CT
2005	York Cinema Gallery, “Sculptor’s Eye”, Solo Show • New Haven, CT
2003	Alexey Von Schlippe Gallery, UCONN, Solo Show • Avery Point, CT
2003	York Cinema Gallery, “Divided World”, Group Show • New Haven, CT
2003	Corscaden Art Barn • Keene Valley, NY
2003	Charles Baltivik Gallery, “Garden”, Solo Show • Provincetown, MA
2002-03	Kendall Art Gallery • Wellfleet, MA
2002-03	Caron Art Gallery • Chester, CT
2002-03	Night Owl Gallery • Rutland, VT
2002	SPA Gallery, “Sculptural Paintings”, Solo Show • Barre, VT
2000	Essex Art Association • Essex, CT
2000-03	Shoreline Art Gallery • Westbrook, CT
1999	Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, “B.A.R.E.”, Group Show • Groton, CT
1999	University of New Haven, “Earth Tones”, 2 Artist Show • West Haven, CT
1998	John Slade Ely House, Group Show • New Haven, CT
1998	Artspace • New Haven, CT
1997-99	Gallery M • New Haven, CT
1996-97	Creative Arts Workshop • New Haven, CT
1995-96	Preusser Gallery • Taos, NM
1995-96	Greene Gallery • Guilford, CT
1991, 96	SculptureFest, Carving Studio • West Rutland, VT
1995, 00	Helene Day Art Center, “Exposed” Outdoor Shows • Stowe, VT
1994-95	Roger Williams Park, “Convergence VII.Vffl” • Providence, RI
1994-96	Equinox Hotel • Manchester, VT
1994	Bennington College, “AIDS”, Group Show • Bennington, VT
1993	Castleton State College, “Nubile Earth”, Solo Show • Castleton, VT
1992	Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center • Hanover, NH
1991	Vermont Bicentennial Sculpture Garden • Proctor, VT
1991	Sculpture at Habitat • Belmont, MA
1990-07	Chaffee Art Center, Member Shows • Rutland, VT
1990-99	Southern Vermont Art Center • Manchester, VT
1990	Fitchburg Art Museum • Fitchburg, MA
1989-95	Besides Myself Gallery • Arlington, VT
1989-93	Quietude Art Gallery • East Brunswick, NJ
1989	Stratton Art Festival • Stratton, VT
1988-89	Salmon Falls Art Gallery • Shelbume Falls, MA
1988-89	Gallery II • Woodstock, VT
1988-89	Brooks Library Gallery • Brattleboro, VT
1988	Sharon Art Gallery • Sharon, NH
1986	Rockville Municipal Center • Rockville, MD
1983-93	McCrillis Gardens • Bethesda, MD
1983	Pathwork Healing Arts Center • Silver Spring, MD
1982	Newkirk Studios • Washington, DC
1981	Via Gambaro Art Gallery • Washington, DC
1980	Milestone Art Gallery • Washington, DC
1977	Swiss Embassy • Washington, DC
1977	Marguerite Fogel Gallery • Washington, DC
1977	Corcoran Art Gallery • Washington, DC

Grants

2008	Adolph Gottlieb Foundation • New York, NY
2008	Artist Fellowship • New York, NY
2002	Vermont Community Foundation • Middlebury, VT
1996	Joseph Albers Foundation • New Haven, CT
1994	Vermont Council on the Arts • Montpelier, VT
1993	Elizabeth Foundation of the Arts • New York, NY
1993	Barbara Carris Foundation • Rutland, VT
1993	Artist Fellowship • New York, NY
1992	Adolph Gottlieb Foundation • New York, NY
1991	Rutland Chapter 2 Grant • Rutland, VT
1991	Mortimer Proctor Fund Grant • Proctor, VT

Commissions

2002	Linda Williamson • Toronto, Canada
2002	Romerein Family • Toronto, Canada
2001	University of New Haven • West Haven, CT
2000	University of New Haven • West Haven, CT
1999	Dr. Gary Heller • West Haven, CT
1999	Dr. Nancy Carriuolo • West Haven, CT
1999	Mr. Roland Bixler • West Haven, CT
1996	Mrs. Jean Lament, Foote School • West Haven, CT
1995	Mr. Louis Spaventa • Santa Barbara, CA
1994	Dr. Tom Smith • Castleton, VT
1993	City of Providence • Providence, RI
1993	Mrs. Melody Ishihara • Tokyo, Japan
1992	Dr. Richard Nathan • Luino, Italy
1992	Mrs. Ernst Nathan • Providence, RI
1992	Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center • Hanover, NH
1991	Dr. William Abdu • Hanover, NH
1989	Dr. Stanley Goldberg • New York, NY
1988	Rev. Robert Grattorati • Charlton, MA
1987	Mr. Gabe Heilig • Takoma Park, MD
1986	Dr. Karl Keller • Kensington, MD
1985	Dr. Herbert Moskovitz • Washington, DC
1983	Dr. Dana Czpansky • Takoma Park, MD
1982	Mr. Wayne Rhodes • Washington, DC
1980	Dr. Richard Nathan • Luino, Italy
1979	Ms. Chris Tandy • Portland, OR
1977	Mrs. Susan Cooper • Washington, DC
1977	Dr. Marguerite Fogel • Washington, DC

Teaching

2008-09	Bomoseen Studio • Castleton, VT
1993-03	West Rutland Studio • West Rutland, VT
1997-99	New Haven Studio • New Haven, CT
1997-99	Guilford Handcrafts Center • Guilford, CT
1996-98	Creative Arts Workshop • New Haven, CT
1996	The Foote School • New Haven, CT
1996	West Rutland School • West Rutland, VT
1994	Chaffee Art Center • Rutland, VT
1991	Proctor Elementary School • Proctor, VT
1990	The Carving Studio • West Rutland, VT

Education

1976-77	Corcoran Art School • Washington, DC
1996	University of Iowa, BA Literature • Iowa City, IA

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