Nick Potter
My experiences in Tallahassee (where I taught at Florida State University) and now Fresno, have caused a shift in approach to these themes; I have turned slightly more towards escapism as fuel for work. Current paintings depict spatial predicaments that are characteristic of the 'successful' and seemingly 'unattainable' urban living and high culture drooled over in glossy lifestyle magazines and experienced on visits to Chicago, Miami, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Havana. These fantasies of high culture are an amalgamation of my own memories, photographs, advertising images and a fascination with perspective. They represent my personal desires and fears about existence, isolation, class and materialism.
835 East Dudley Ave,
Fresno, Ca, 93728.
(559) 264 5399
Education
1998-Master of Fine Arts
Birmingham Institute of Art, Birmingham, England
1996-Bachelor of Fine Arts,
Cheltenham College of Art, Cheltenham, England.
Teaching
2001-Asst. Prof.
California State University Fresno, Fresno, CA
Teaching classes in painting and drawing.
1999-2001 Visiting Artist/ Asst. Prof.
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Teaching classes in painting and drawing.
2002- A Rush and a Push and the Land Shall be Ours
Solo show, Presidents Gallery, California State University, Fresno.
2002- Celebration and Expression: A Black History Show
Art Space Gallery, Fresno City Gallery
2001-California State Fresno Faculty Exhibition
Conley Art Gallery, Cal State, Fresno
2001- Florida State University Faculty Exhibition Florida State University Museum of Art and
The Visual Arts Center of Northwest Florida, Panama City
2000- Havana 2k Performance
Havana Biennal, Havana, Cuba
2000- Exploring the Van Gogh Legacy Group Exhibition, Florida State University Museum of Art.
2000-Florida State University Faculty Exhibition
Florida State University Museum of Art.
1999-Rome Scholars Group Exhibition>
Cheltenham College of Art, Cheltenham, England.
1998-Graduation Exhibition
Birmingham Institute of Art, Birmingham, England
1998-Exhausted by the Mundane- Nick Potter/Steve Aylin
Levi Strauss Flagship Gallery, Birmingham, England
Awards
1994-Summerfield Trust Rome Scholarship Award Awarded the Summerfield Trust annual scholarship for a British art student to study independently at the British School in Rome.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Since moving to the U.S.A. I have reconsidered my long-standing investigation into issues of identity and cultural difference through the depiction of architectural spaces and urban environments. Previously these were centered on the banality and terror of everyday spaces, particularly the elevators, lobbies and corridors of the tower blocks (public housing) that I grew up in. Being of diverse ethnicity in London heightened my awareness of dislocated cultures situated in such foreboding and alien environments.