Nicholas Arbatsky
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Terrain
Park featuring Backside 180 at Heavenly & Switch Boardslide at
Salt Lake Winter Olympiad, 2005 Mixed media 45’ x 24’ x 15’, (2) 8’ x 12’ images This sculpture takes the form of a snowboard terrain park reinterpreting the traditional sequence of ramps that offer snowboarders the ability to induce flight. The installation includes a billboard structure with abstract images from a snowboarding event. |
Born 1959
Lives and works in Brooklyn, N Y
Education
1988 Whitney Museum Independent Studies Program, New York, NY
1986 M.F.A., School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1984 B.F.A., University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
1981 B.L.A., University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
Nicholas has been exhibiting nationally and internationally since 1985. Selected exhibitions include: Definitively Provisional, Appendiks, Copenhagen, Denmark (2004); Archive Project, Storefront for Art & Architecture, New York, NY (2003); Photography 2002, Millennium Arts Center, Washington, DC (2002); B Hotel, P.S.1. Contemporary Arts Center, Long Island City, NY (2001); Outside In, The Work Space, New York, NY (2000); Monochrome, Patrick Gallery, New York, NY (1999); The Jewel Box Project, GAGA Gallery, New York, NY (1998); Wood Work, The Fisher Landau Center, Long Island City, NY (1998); Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, New York, NY (1994); The Romance of Fuel-Injected Flesh, Hallwalls Project Space, Buffalo, NY (1993); Rope/Radio/Return of the Repressed, Artists Space, New York, NY (1992); Grounded, The Rymer Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL (1991); Before and After the Spill, The Photo Center, Seattle Art Museum, WA (1990); Outside the Clock, Scott Ahnson Gallery, New York, NY (1989); and Urgent Messages, The Chicago Cultural Center, IL (1987).