oil paint, bread,
7" x 5.5" x 0.5"
12 magnifying loupes, adhesive
size varying
board, acrylic, rotating device
48 " x 48" x 2"
wood, light boxes, extention cord, timer
44 " x 24" x 1"
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| "Untitled",
2002, oil paint, bread, 7" x 5.5" x 0.5" |
"Wall
Signs", 2000 12 magnifying loupes, adhesive size varying |
"Descending
Man, Ascending Man", 2000 board, acrylic, rotating device 48 " x 48" x 2" |
"Okno".
2000 wood, light boxes, extention cord, timer 44 " x 24" x 1" |
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Artist Statement
Polish born Adam Niklewicz's work is lyrical in its sense of loss and in its obsession with the impossibility of reconciling past and present, evoking not homeland, but rather the absurdity of nostalgia and the futility of trying to be in any place other than the liminal space of the prefixed-American. Neither fully Polish nor fully American, Niklewicz’s work is ultimately about the folly of romanticizing a past that no longer exists.
-- Steven Holmes, Curator, Real Art Ways
Adam Niklewicz Education
1989
BFA, Washington University, School of Fine Arts, St. Louis, Missouri
Selected Solo Exhibitions
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2004
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“New Works”, installations, New Space Gallery (at MCC), Hartford, Connecticut |
| 2002 | “New/Now”, installations, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut |
| 2001 | “Signs”, installations, Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, Connecticut |
| 1999 | “Ulro”, paintings, ArtBank Gallery, London, England |
Selected Group Exhibitions
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2004
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2004
“Hot Water”, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut “Artists Play House”, Stamford Museum, Stamford, Connecticut |
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2003
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“Territories”, Galerie
fur Landschaftskunst, Hamburg, Germany |
| 2002 | “This
is Then”, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut “8 Reflections On Time”, John Slade Ely House, New Haven, Connecticut “Snapshot”, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut |
Awards and Grants
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2001
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The Grumbacher Award, “Art of the Northeast”, Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, Connecticut |
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2000
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AAUP Faculty Development Grant, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, Connecticut |
| 1996 | Artists Studio Residency, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France |
Contact
Information
2 Van Rose Drive
North Haven, CT06473
203-230-1024
adamniklewicz@earthlink.net