Patrick Nickell (born 1960) is an American sculptor and visual artist. He has had exhibitions at various universities and galleries, including the one-artist show "Built For Speed, A Sculpture Survey," and currently teaches at

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as a professor. He has been described as "making messy, minimal sculptures from found and discarded materials such as cardboard, twine, plywood and scrap metal."

Career

Art and Exhibits

His first group exhibition was at the

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in 1988. Nickell's first solo exhibition, ''Built for Speed'', was at the

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Gallery in 1990, with a one-artist show, “Patrick Nickell: Built For Speed, A Sculpture Survey,” being at Luckman Fine Arts Gallery,

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. This show then traveled to the Harrison Museum,

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, Logan and the

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. In a 1994 review of a major solo exhibition at Kohn Turner Gallery, Carmine Lannaconne wrote in Art Issues, "Other artists have made the funky and the junky into the chic and elegant, but what distinguishes Nickell is the quixotic sincerity he brings to the endeavor." With the exhibitions, he, alongside several other artists, were noticed for the use of sculpting to make " ree-dimensional drawings in ..space". In 2014, Nickell was awarded a

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. His work is displayed in several different permanent collections which are displayed at the

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, Luckman Fine Arts Gallery at

, Laguna Beach Museum of Art,

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, Santa Barbara Museum of Art,

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, and the

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at the

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Teaching

Nickell has also taught in various colleges and universities, including the

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, and

, the latter of which he directs the University's Nan Rae Gallery.

Personal life

Nickell received his Bachelor of Arts from

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in 1983, and his

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from

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in 1985. Nickell is married to artist

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, and they have a son together. They had first moved in together after graduate school and created a studio in

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. The couple currently lives in the

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area in

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References

External links

Nickell's website
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