Nicole Chesney

Art Brokerage: Nicole Chesney American Artist: b. 1971. Nicole Chesney was born in Cinnaminson, New Jersey in 1971. She began her undergraduate studies at California College of Arts and Craft and earned a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art in 1997. In 2000, Nicole completed her Master's degree at The Canberra School of Art in Canberra, Australia. Awards received include a Jutta Cuny-Franz Foundation Supporting Award in Düsseldorf, Germany in 2001, the UrbanGlass Award for New Talent in 2004 and The Corning Museum of Glass Rakow Commission in 2005. Her work in exhibited and collected internationally. In 2003, Nicole moved to Providence, Rhode Island, which she very happily now calls home. Created from layers of oil paint on etched, mirrored glass, these paintings envelope viewers in a seductive, mysterious space. Their reflective, shining, richly saturated surfaces are unapologetic in their beauty and desirous, jewel-like appeal. Yet they never remain stable—the constantly changing ray of incidence and ray of reflection on their mirrored surfaces makes each visual encounter unique and ephemeral. For those that stay, look, and linger, the works slowly, subtly reveal new facets of themselves. Listings wanted.