Art

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McShanes Block

Nick Paradis

Ink on Paper

11x14 unframed

Nick Paradis A New England raised individual whom aspires, contributes, and engages visual art, music, sound, poetry, philosophy, nature, and the heart beat of the very streets we walk upon.

Graduate of the 2009 class at New England College, holds and continuously evolves with concentrations in art, creative writing, and philosophy. An outgoing traveler, breaching the city of Los Angeles only fifteen days after graduation to seek out, observe, and interact in social media, entertainment, and 'underground' pulse. Creating a cornerstone with a reserved art/music collective, active in a musical project that played gigs all over LA. His art work swept from personal buyers, neighbors, side alley galleries to a year long exhibition in the mayor's 'hall' at the City Hall of Los Angeles.

Now home in New Hampshire, he teaches adjunct art instruction at Kimball Jenkins in Concord. As well as trying to find his balance in teaching, printing, design, and visual artistic expression such as interior and exterior painting, commissioned fine art, and murals.

His body of work from 2000-present: paintings, illustrations, and collages are of different styles, skill level and time; high-school, college, individual art classes, summers in between, certain relationships, traveling, cities, and home. A decade's collection of impressionism, cubism, surrealism/dada, dark, urban, modern, and pop styles. Done with several diverse mixed mediums such as oil, latex, spray paint, watercolor, ink, charcoal, pastels, oil sticks, collage, and found material.

Many of the pieces symbolize anger, growth, beauty, wisdom, and change. Given technique in some, they are to release aspirations, imagination, hopes and natural possibilities in our 'what seems to be at times' the “dark ages” of contemporary American culture. Yet, at the same time using a 'shock value' with the actual dark or harsh represented conditions to help an audience grasp anger, destruction, or 'anti' being a wholesome gift or internal motivator for something as pure as visual art. In the end I suppose we're all human with a set of eyes, striving and pumping the maro of life into an awakening sense of our own. Email: Nparadispainting@gmail.com