Nikki Schiro's Blog

New Work

2012-01-29T11:15:00.000-08:00

Imprint Art Festival, London

2012-01-25T22:20:00.001-08:00

Featuring Images of the artwork I made in Beijing China

for more information, visit www.thefabelist.com

Intersection Exhibition, Beijing, China

2012-01-15T22:22:00.000-08:00

An international Exhibition in the 20,000 sq meter Nova Art Coordinates Gallery

Featuring 8 transient international artists temporarily working in Fei Jia Cun, Beijing, juxtaposed with 8 Chinese artists who live and work in the Artist Village.

co-self-curated by Nikki Schiro and Li XinHui, November 2011

above: artwork by Nikki Schiro

below: most of the artists in the exhibition

2011-09-20T07:19:00.000-07:00

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
Oscar Wilde

Rubmle Above The Clouds

2011-09-17T15:52:00.000-07:00

Rumble Above the Clouds: Nikki Schiro

The exhibition runs from September 16-October 27

and an opening reception on

Thursday, September 29th, 7-9pm

Participating artists include:

Emily Adams, Robert Aitchison, Kinda Barazi, Maria Barbo, Christina Batch-Lee, Michael Berube, Araceli Cruz, Yoon Cho, Sal Dungca, Lauren Gohara, Baris Gokturk, Margaret Graham, Danielle Goldsmith, Keena Gonzalez, Graeme Gerard Halliday, Iliyan Ivanov, Joey Kilrain, Ben Knight, Caitlin McKee, Lori Merhige, Anthony Santella, Nikki Schiro, Porn Siphanoum, Carrie Elston Tunick, and Timothy Webster.

Church of St. Paul the Apostle

Corner of West 60th Street and Columbus in Manhattan

Do you hear that sound? It’s a Rumble Above the Clouds, Openings 5th group exhibition at the historic Church of St. Paul the Apostle. Openings, an artists’ collective on Manhattan’s West Side, which seeks to spark discussion and interaction in the creative community, presents their largest group exhibition to date.

The show will feature painting, sculpture, photography, video and site specific installations that will be installed throughout the church.

Press Contact: Frank Sabatte

(212) 265-3495 x218

Corrine As Venus, Reconstruction Series 42 in X 32 in pencil painting on paper 2011

Mary as Madame x 91.4 cm X 51cm Pencil Painting on mylar 2010

"Renaissance Women of tART", Review of tART: Year 8

2011-09-16T16:23:00.000-07:00

tART: Year 8 exhibition front paged on the Brooklyn Gazette

http://www.greenpointnews.com/entertainment/3764/the-renaissance-women-of-tart

God Save My Shoes' Video Library; Nikki's Confession

2011-09-16T16:14:00.001-07:00

Watch live streaming video from caidproductions at livestream.com

Opening of tART Year 8: A Self Curated Exhibition, more pics

2011-09-14T17:05:00.000-07:00

if you missed the opening, here is just a glimpse of the show, featuring ambiance and my artworks.

For a more photos, including other artists/artwork: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tartnyc/sets/72157627562285709/

My tinniest fan

Collaborative Mural and the artists who made it.

(Left to Right) Yasmin Spiro, Julia Whitney Barnes, Nikki Schiro and Rosemary Taylor

Julia Whitney Barnes, Nikki Schiro and Anna Lise Jensen

Nikki Schiro beside one of her paintings

Nikki Admires a Gift from Anna Lise Jensen, Chinese Calligraphy

tART Year 8: A Self-Curated Show--Opening Reception

2011-09-10T06:54:00.001-07:00

(Click on Photos for Larger View)

Mural Made by Nikki Schiro, Julia Whitney Barnes, Yasmin Spiro and Rosemary Taylor

Artists Melissa Staiger (Purple) and Debora Pohl (Black, Foreground) in front of Anna Lise Jensen's Artwork.

(Right Side) Artist Damali Abrams in front of Nikki Schiro's Paintings.

Center Installation by Yasmin Spiro, Paintings (Right) Nikki Schiro

Video Piece by Damali Abrahms

Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, Damali Abrams, Suzanne Broughel and Friends

Shower installation by Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow

Nikki Schiro adores departing gift, from Artist Anna Lise Jensen

Portrait Commission Complete!

2011-09-08T22:12:00.000-07:00

Nikki Schiro at work, with portrait commission

Svergognato, A Big Hand for a Little Lady

The last commission before leaving for China!

Finishing Mural and Installation: tART 8 Show Opens this Friday!! Be there!

2011-09-05T18:55:00.001-07:00

Arts@Renaissance Gallery, Brooklyn NY: 24 contemporary female artists, and myself, are working our butts off to get this exhibition installed in an outrageously short period of alloted time. Good things happen under pressure though...as usual.

Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow and Damali Abrams sculpt hot glue for sight specific installation; Nikki finishes mural and installslights on her work; MaDora Fray, Melissa Staiger, Rachael Gorchov, and Susan Ross woMAN-Handle the power tool.

New Art Book

2011-08-26T07:49:00.000-07:00

Nikki Schiro |

tART Year 8: A Self-Curated Show

2011-08-16T10:25:00.000-07:00

tART Year 8: A Self Curated Show

On view at Art@Renaissance, September 9th-October 14th

tartnewyork@gmail.com

New York City (August 16th, 2011) – tART Year 8: A Self Curated Show opens September 9th at Art@Renaissance in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The exhibit will run from September 9th through October 14th. The art will be chosen and installed by artists from the collective.

Entering it’s 8th year, the tART collective presents new work by members - covering a wide cross-section of the current practices within the group. The show will be host to several events for residents of Greenpoint and the community at large. tART will engage with the site of Art@Renaissance for hands on workshops and discussions on art and social practice.

Featuring Artwork of tART Members: Amy Shapiro, Ann deVere, Anna Lise Jensen, Asya Reznikov, Carrie Rubinstein, Damali Abrams, Deborah Pohl, Elsie Kagan, Georgia Elrod, Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, Julia Whitney Barnes, Katerina Lanfranco, Katherine Keltner, Laura Fayer, LIz Ainslie, MaDora Frey, Melissa Staiger, Monica Carrier, Nikki Schiro, Petra Valentova, Rachael Gorchov, Rosemary Taylor, Sandra Mack-Valencia, Susan Ross, Suzanne Bennett, Suzanne Broughel, Yasmin Spiro

The tART collective functions as a contemporary feminist support structure for a group of artists in New York City, who are committed to exploring the intersections of visual art and public engagement as well as participating in post-graduate studio visits. Since 2004, the collective has used its exhibitions as a platform - to fundraise for Doctors Without Borders and Creative Time, to launch 'zines and present workshops, panel discussions and collaborations. When the collective expanded to its current maximum size in terms of logistics, members began to facilitate workshops teaching other artists how to set up their own groups. In 2011, tART members presented on the collective at the College Art Association conference in NYC (February) and Open Engagement conference, Portland, OR, (May.)

Location: Art@Renaissance

2 Kingsland Avenue (@ Maspeth Avenue) Garden Level

Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY 11211

Opening Reception: Friday, September 9th from 7-9pm

Open Friday (1-7:30) and Saturday (1-7PM), and by appointment

Please contact tartnewyork@gmail.com for more information

www.tartnyc.org Facebook twitter.com/tartnyc www.flickr.com

Talking about my work...

2011-08-12T23:25:00.000-07:00

Nikki talks about her artwork and what will be represented in "Rumble Above the Clouds" exhibition this September 2011

Nikki Schiro talks about portrait project work

2011-08-11T10:57:00.000-07:00

Nikki talks about her artwork and what will be represented in "Rumble Above the Clouds" exhibition this September 2011

Nikki Featured August 2011 @ The Fabelist Magazine

2011-08-01T16:55:00.001-07:00

The Fabelist is a bi-monthly culture magazine & blog created by Francesca Goodwin, featuring short stories, poetry, music, journalism, artwork and photography.

Nikki Schiro is featured as "Fabelist of the month."
http://thefabelist.blogspot.com/

(Scroll down and click on my image)

The Fabelist: The FabelistEthos

No Proud Scars--Please

2011-07-10T07:14:00.000-07:00

Artist Sandra Mack Valencia in El Museo's Bienal 2011

2011-06-21T18:14:00.000-07:00

Sandra Mack Valencia (also an active member of the tART Collective and Hunter MFA alumni) is an artist friend of mine who was selected to exhibit in El Museo's 2011 Bienal. Her work will be on view at Lehman College Art Gallery, thru January 6, 2012, and is worth checking out.

El Museo's Bienal: The (S) Files 2011
Reception: Monday, September 26th, 6 to 8 PM
Summer hours: June 22 - July 28, Tues.-Thurs. from 10-4:00, August: By appointment

www.elmuseo.org.

No Proud Scars--Please

2011-05-30T19:06:00.000-07:00

Above Image: Carlos Charlie Perez, Still from Billy The Kids, 2010 © Carlos Charlie Perez

No Proud Scars--Please

Don Edler, Carlos Perez, Andres Laracuente, Gilad Ratman, Julian Lorber, and Nikki Schiro
Group Exhibition Curated by Peter Duhon

Opening: June 8th 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
June 8th - June 29th

Spattered Columns
491 Broadway Suite 500
New York, NY 10012

No Proud Scars, Please

PRESS RELEASE:

Spattered Columns is pleased to announce No Proud Scars, Please—an exhibition curated by Peter Duhon. Its title taken from the metaphysical thriller, Possessions, written by prominent psychoanalyst, critic, Julia Kristeva, psychoanalyst, critic, and Professor Emeritus at the University de Paris VII. Kristeva is internationally recognized for innovative explorations in her groundbreaking and immensely influential texts such as Revolution in Poetic Language and Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection.

In her novel, Possessions, Kristeva details the gruesome discovery of the decapitated body of a close friend to the heroine Stephanie Delacour, who sets out to discover the murderer. The journey that ensues opens a conceptual terrain that eschews crippling and unproductive nostalgia—a journey that is both publicly and privately sociopolitical.

The five artists selected for this exhibition work with wide-ranging materials and concepts, some of which intersect with themes explored by Kristeva in her novel. The exhibition includes work by Gilad Ratman (video), Andres Laracuente (sculpture), Julian Lorber (painting), Carlos Charlie Perez (photography and video), Nikki Schiro (painting), and Don Edler (sculpture). No Proud Scars, Please is an exhibition that seeks to engage critically with time, history, memory and loss by privileging a spirit of Nietzschean affirmation with works of art that provoke productive multiplicity.

The opening reception for No Proud Scars, Please will take place from 6pm-8pm on Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at Spattered Columns, 491 Broadway, 5th Floor, New York, New York 10012. The show will run until June 29, 2011.

Spattered Columns is a program of Art Connects New York, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that seeks to enrich the lives of all New Yorkers by making original visual artwork more readily available in non-traditional settings.

For more information on No Proud Scars, Please at Spattered Columns/Art Connects New York, please contact Ginger Shulick at gingers{at}artconnectsnewyork.org.

New Book!

2011-05-29T17:29:00.000-07:00

64 Pages, Lush Images of artwork by Nikki Schiro made during Residency in Chengdu China, 2010. Own your own copy today!
Preview first 15 pages below!

Chengdu 2010 by Nikki Schiro |

God Save My Shoes!

2011-05-20T09:29:00.000-07:00

This is a trailer for an interesting and fun documentary about the relationship between women and shoes...and don't I love to let my mind run all over such relationships.

I'm in the movie, and it's produced by Caid Productions.

More at www.godsavemyshoes.com

LIC Arts Week: Activities at Reis Studios

2011-05-15T15:41:00.000-07:00

Reis Studios 43-01 22nd Street, NY 11101

(Near P.S.1 Museum and Citibank building)
My Studio is on the 3rd floor, 353-352

tART at Open Engagement Conference 2011

2011-05-11T16:04:00.000-07:00

Anna Lise Jensen, Nikki Schiro and Julia Whitney Barnes
representing the tART collective
at this years
Open Engagement Conference
in Portland Oregon

Schiro Reconstruction 10

2011-05-01T11:53:00.000-07:00

2011-04-17T15:07:00.000-07:00

Today I registered to be a stem cell/bone marrow donor at a drive that was organized in the Ballroom of the HI Hostel in Harlem (What a cool building); an extension of Anna Lise Jensen's artwork "Have a Seat" (The floor installation which debuted as Jensen's contribution to the Composting Installation for the Sweet + Sour show...). My mouth was swabbed, as I sat on Anna Lise's floor installation. I filled out an application, got a sticker, painless and very interesting as I met a ton of extraordinary people and volunteers--one a survivor, whose presence and story really brought the live saving aspects of this kind of simple donation into the space and my heart. To close, I was offered a bright candy-ful print by Anna Lise Jensen, called "Life Savers"....

Another donor getting swabbed on the installation

Art For Japan

2011-03-23T16:17:00.000-07:00

March 29, 2011
Artist(s): Ushio Shinohara, Shingo Francis, Gen Aihara, Katsuhiro Saiki, ON Megumi, Yumi Kori, Tomomi Ono, Nikki Schiro, etc.

ART FOR JAPAN
Art Exhibition to help the Earthquake and Tsunami victims in Japan

Tuesday, March 29 2011, from 5 – 8PM
Venue: ISE Cultural Foundation Front Space Gallery

On March 11, the massive earthquake of magnitude 9,0 and the huge Tsunami hit Northeast of Japan and caused catastrophic damages. Thousands of people were killed and many more are still missing.

ISE Cultural Foundation is organizing 1-day art exhibition of "ART FOR JAPAN" in order to raise the fund for the earthquake and Tsunami victims in Japan.

The artists will donate their artworks and exhibit at ISE Cultural Foundation Front Space Gallery on Tuesday, March 29.

All of the artworks will be sold either $20 or $40 in cash only.
*ISE Cultural Foundation will match up the same amount of the all sales from the event and will donate 100% of the fund to Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures through the Japanese American Association of New York.

Sweet + Sour: tART Works, Armory Weekend, Opening Reception

2011-03-21T16:38:00.001-07:00

Swept, Pulled and Lifted,a collaboration by Artists Ann deVere and Deborah Pohl.

Pod City: Collaboration by Julia Whitney Barnes, Yasmin Spiro and Katerina Lanfranco (respectively)

Composting, a collaboration by artists Petra Valentova, Nikki Schiro and Anna Lise Jensen (respectively)

Composting Collaboration: Detail of Anna Lise Jensen and Petra Valentova artworks

Mutilated Flowers by Petra Valentova, Framed re-constructed old masters by myself, Nikki Schiro

Two Abstract Paintings based on the same quotes, collaboration by artists Melissa Staiger and Liz Ainslie
based on quotes from Joseph Conrad's "The Hear of Darkness" and Virginia Woolf's "Orlando"

Artists Melissa Staiger and Liz Ainslie, central

Artists Damali Abrams and Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow prepare for the streets, to preform and document their collaborative piece Sweetly Sour.
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great minds think alike

Damali Abrams and Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow

Artist Nikki Schiro

artists Deborah Pohl and Nikki Schiro

Paige Laverty and Friend in front of Nikki Schiro and Petra Valentova artworks

tART Artist Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow with exhibition curator Caroline Elizabeth Babson

Frank Schiro and Kristin Malafy

tART Armory Week 2011

2011-02-28T18:47:00.000-08:00

SWEET + SOUR: tART WORKS

Curated by Caroline Elizabeth Babson
Opening March 5, 2011 6-9pm
Featuring Collaborations by tART Artists:
Damali Abrams, Liz Ainslie, Anne deVere, Anna Lise Jensen, Katerina Lanfranco, Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, Deborah Pohl, Nikki Schiro, Yasmin Spiro, Melissa Staiger, Petra Valentova, Julia Whitney Barnes

OZANEAUX Art Space
515 West 20th Street, #5E, NY, NY 10011
www.tartnyc.org
tartnewyork@gmail.com

SummerSpace 2011: Unchained Melodies on Canvas

2011-02-05T17:18:00.000-08:00

SummerSpace 2011
Paintings by Chengdu artist Jiang Jian
(艺术家蒋剑)
curated by New York artist Nikki Schiro
(艺术家妮克希罗)

Magali Olive, Emma Boitier, Thierry Daher

artist Jessica Rosen, Kevin Takasato and friends

Artists Nikki Schiro and Jiang Jian with Oncology Nurses of Roosevelt Hospital's 11G

artists Naomi Beesen, Yao Zu Lu, and Laurence De Vries

Artists Sandra Mack Valencia and Jiang Jian with Oncology friends from Roosevelt and BI hospitals.
...Featuring The Electronic Translator! Sometimes it works, other times it's a good laugh.

artists Nikki Schiro, Yao Zu Lu and Timothy Cruz

My Ace-Kum-Boom, Frederic Ozaneaux

Jiang Jian Fred Ozaneaux Benji and Eduard

artists Jiang Jian and Sandra

Jiang Jian with Frank Schiro

artists Jiang Jian and Anna Lise Jensen

Artists Julia Whitney Barnes and Jessica Rosen with Juliette

Artists Jiang Jian and Kaze

tART Crit: Nikki Schiro's China Paintings

2010-12-11T17:18:00.000-08:00

Here I am, describing my 3 months in China; the environment, the culture as I found it, what was familiar, what was other-worldly, and how it all played into the 20 pieces of artwork I created there.

GREAT feedback from the girls.

Chinese Press News 99

2010-11-27T15:03:00.000-08:00

NIKKI接受采访，何工当翻译

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2010年10月31日下午3点，“如同登上乞力马扎罗——NIKKI的高地”美国女艺术家NIKKI个人展览在成都蓝顶美术馆开幕。

此次展览由“高地”艺术区发起人何工策划，展出艺术家NIKKI的铅笔画和色粉丙烯艺术作品20余幅。其中一部分作品主要描绘她在成都“高地”艺术区3个月期间的所见所闻。

NIKKI勇敢的离开美国纽约，来到成都最偏远最农村的“高地”艺术区做驻留艺术家。3个月来，用她异乡人的眼光打量成都的当代艺术，并让他们驻留在自己的创作当中。正如此次展览策展人何工所说：“Nikki是个勇敢的人，敢于走出纽约来到“高地”，在这个世人看来与艺术无关的中国乡村作驻留艺术家。成群结队前赴后继的蚊子、赶集时活杀鸡鸭的场景、能卷得像古巴雪茄一样的土烟叶、村民的婚丧酒席都表明这里不是纽约。报以后殖民式闯入者的心态，Nikki自然地从宗主文化的立场好奇的看待眼前的事物，会同猎奇、想象和误读她亢奋而高效地生产作品，在这次有预谋的文化探险中登上了假想和隐喻的乞力马扎罗。”

NIKKI是留驻在成都“高地”艺术区的外国艺术家，目前到成都的时间也仅仅只有3个月。这3个月她一直留驻在“高地”艺术区从事艺术创作，从他描绘成都当代艺术领域的一些人物来看，她这3个月中与成都艺术圈的朋友们打得非常火热。

本次展览也是成都蓝顶美术馆自开馆以来举办的第一场国外艺术家个人展览，着实为国内外艺术交流提供了有利平台。

At 3:00 p.m. on October 31 2010, "as the board Kilimanjaro - NIKKI's Highland," solo exhibition American Women Artists NIKKI Blue Roof Art Museum in Chengdu.
The exhibition display pencil and pastel paintings by NIKKI, more than... 20 pieces of art. Her works mainly depict her experience in Chengdu's Gao Fandian, during a 3 month residency at "Highland" Arts District.
"Nikki is brave enough to leave New York and come to the “Highland”. She becomes a resident artist in a village of China which has nothing to do with art in people’s eyes. The mosquitoes in large groups, the scene of killing the chickens and ducks in the market, the tobacco leaves curling like Cuban cigars and villagers’ marriage and funeral banquets, all of these show that it is not New York. With an attitude of a post-colonial intruder, Nikki treats things she sees naturally from the standpoint of suzerain culture. With novelty, imagination and misreading, she has produced works excitedly and effectively. She ascends to Kilimanjaro of imaginary and metaphor in the planned cultural adventure." (writes curator and artist He Gong)
The foreign artist Nikki has had presence in Chengdu just only 3 months. This 3 months she has been stationed in the "highland" art district in the art, contemporary art from the area he described some of the Chengdu people point of view, these three months with her artistic circle of friends in Chengdu played very hot.
This exhibition held at Chengdu Blue Roof Museum is the first solo exhibition of a foreign artist in Chengdu. Indeed, art of communicating at home and abroad have raised the platform.

See News and additional photos at:

http://news.99ys.com/20101102/article--101102--49440_1.shtml

Chinese Press Blurb Jianhuan blog

2010-11-27T15:00:00.000-08:00

四川大学研究生会建筑与环境学院研究生分会

服务同学完善自我

时间：10月31日～11月30日
地点：蓝顶美术馆（三圣乡荷塘月色）
主题：“如同登上乞力马扎罗———Nikki的高地”
这场展览虽然规模不大，但却十分有意义：美国年轻女艺术家妮基·施洛（Nikki Schiro）的个展。她8月从纽约来到成都，在成都高地艺术区生活和创作了三个月，本周四刚刚回国。这批展览的色粉作品都是她在成都创作的，以写实风格为主。从某种角度上来说，这也是成都艺术氛围越来越好的最佳证明之一。

Time: October 31 ~ November 30
Location: Blue Roof Museum (Sam Shing Township Lotus Pond)
Theme: "Reaching the peak like ascending mount Kilimanjaro --- Nikki's Highland"
...Although this exhibition is small, it is very interesting: It is a solo show featuring work from a young American woman artist Nijishiluo (Nikki Schiro). She came to Chengdu in August from New York, to work at Highland Art District in Chengdu for three months of life and creation. She just returned to New York on Thursday. All of these works in the exhibition were created in Chengdu, the realistic style of the main. This exhibition is certain indication, one of the best evidence, that artistic atmosphere of Chengdu is becoming more and better.

http://blog.163.com/scugsu_jianhuan/blog/static/61893747201010775733797/

Reaching the Reaching the Peak like Ascending Mount Kilimanjaro...Nikki's Highland

2010-11-03T05:19:00.001-07:00

Solo Exhibition: Blue Roof Gallery, Chengdu, China

They told me I was the first American to have a Solo Exhibition in Chengdu...
the derivative pressure was so good.
Turns out, I was the first foreigner whatsoever to have a solo show in Chengdu. Very Cool!

Photo Day

Installation Day

Opening Reception, October 31, 2010

Highland Artists Bao Ping and Zhou Tao

artist/curator He Gong

While I was out!

2010-11-01T16:07:00.000-07:00

Some photos and press from the exhibits at home, while I was abroad

Daily News features tART Show, August 13, 2010

Opening of tART: What's in a Collective? at A.I.R. Gallery this August

tART Panel by Suzanne Broughel How does white skin privilege affect women artists?

tART Panel Discussion Outside the Market Place, led by Yasmin Spiro

Chengdu Artist Residency and upcoming

2010-08-02T05:09:00.000-07:00

I am thrilled to announce that I will leave for Chengdu, China, for a 3 month Artist Residency, where I will be working on a new series of paintings. While I am away, my work will be exhibited at home, in 4 fabulous exhibitions, several works at each venue. I have posted all the information I have at this time below.

Follow my China Blog: There is a link posted to the right under "Favorites" that says "Chengdu Nikki". Click on that to stay up to date on new work and the entire experience.

再见,
Nikki!!!

tART@A.I.R.: What's in a Collective?

Curated by Anna Lise Jensen
Opening August 5, 6-8pm
August 5th - August 29th, 2010
A.I.R. Gallery
111 Front Street, #228
D.U.M.B.O., NY 11201

Visions of Dignity

September 15, 2010-February 21, 2011
Curated by Ryan Grover
The Biggs Museum of American Art
406 Federal Street
Dover, DE 19901

Featuring portraits by Nikki Schiro for

Hispanic Cultural Month
August 12-October 8, 2010
HACC Gettysburg Campus
731 Old Harrisburg Road
Gettysburg PA 17325

Harlem Art Walk

Nikki Schiro and Helen Dennis
Sat Oct. 09, 2010, 9 to 5pm
Sat. Oct 10. 2010, 9 to 5pm
EMC Arts
127 West 122nd Street
New York, NY 10027
United States of America

Laurence De Vries Opening

2010-07-11T13:20:00.000-07:00

Laurence De Vries will be exhibiting new works on paper at
OZANEAUX Showroom throughout July and August.
Here are some photos from opening night.

Gold and Precious Stones Pin by De Vries

Nikki Schiro and Angela La Greca

Artists Nikki Schiro and Laurence De Vries

Laurence De Vries with Friend/Collector

Frederic Ozaneaux with Marion Segard

Nikki Schiro, Giovanni Bucci, Frederic Ozaneaux

Figment 2010

2010-06-14T21:25:00.000-07:00

Artists Anna Lise Jensen and Yao Zu Lu on Ferry to Governors Island

Our House

tART artists Nikki Schiro and Madora Frey

Stilt-Man affront Nikki Schiro's women

Making Rooms Workshop

Reconstruction Series on View

2010-06-10T15:07:00.000-07:00

Beauty (Reconstruction Series)

Gyclee print by Nikki Schiro
2010

Saturday & Sunday June 12-13, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Governors Island

Building 10 B, second floor
The Yellow House
in the Nolan Galleries

I'm showing 10 pieces from my "Reconstruction" series at Figment, on Governors Island this weekend. I will be exhibiting with 6 other members of the art collective tART: Damali Abrams, Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, Deborah Pohl, Anna Lise Jensen, Yasmin Spiro and Petra Valentova. (www.tartnyc.org)

Take the ferry (Just to the left of the Staten Island Ferry) and you will find us at the Yellow House, in the Nolan Galleries, Building 10b, second floor.
Saturday & Sunday from 10-6, with workshops each day 1-3pm.

Governors Island is beautiful and there is a giant park for picnic lunches, and buildings are filled with artists and artwork. Make a day of it!

I will be there the entire day Saturday, so please, come say hello!

FIGMENT celebrates an abundance of creativity and passion, challenging artists and our communities to find new ways to create, share, think, and dream. Become a part of events in NYC (June 11-13) and Boston (June 5), and interactive exhibits on NYC's Governors Island from June through October. For more information, visit http://figmentproject.org/.

LiCa Open Studios

2010-05-26T19:02:00.000-07:00

Open Studio at 40-09, 2010

Oil on Canvas

Reconstructed Series: Gyclee prints; iconic images of ideal women manipulated to reflect my experience looking at, talking about and making art with oncology patients at Roosevelt hospital.

Colored Pencil on Mylar

Ink on Paper

Pencil on Paper

Herman, my plant, with Dick

Infusionistas

2010-05-25T19:46:00.000-07:00

Infusionistas: Nurses of 11G

Pencil and Watercolors on Mylar mounted to Foam Core
36" X 48"
2010

I am the Artist in Resident of Roosevelt Hospital’s Oncology/Hematology Infusion and Radiation suites; a residency of the Creative Center. 20 hrs a week, I make art with patients battling cancer. The nurses I work with are out-of-this-world wonderful, and to honor them during Nurses Week 2010, I made a piece of art to represent them in Roosevelt Hospital’s Lobby throughout the second week of May 2010.

Profile: New York, S.P.A.C.E. Gallery

2010-05-04T11:09:00.000-07:00

Opening May 7th 6-9pm

May 7th-May 31st
The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery
266 Pine Street, Suite 105 Burlington VT
I will be exhibiting 2 paintings in Vermont, in an show called Profile: New York, opening this Friday.For those adventurous and craving an excuse for a road trip, I will be there and would love to see you. Please, use this as your excuse!

The opening coincides with Burlington’s First Friday Art Walk when on the first Friday of every month, several of Burlington’s most successful galleries mount openings, extend their hours, have special performances and much more.

Please feel free to review the following website for more information:
http://artmapburlington.com

www.spacegalleryvt.com

Citibank building, Queens New York

2010-04-11T09:24:00.000-07:00

Nikki Schiro's Fred Fleur, Right
Exhibition with Artists in Residence of the Creative Center
On View April thru June

Helen Dennis + Albert Fung

2010-04-03T16:13:00.001-07:00

Helen Dennis + Albert Fung

Curated by Nikki Schiro

Orange and purple look very different, they heighten the experience of the other, however, unlike true complimentary colors, they do not optically argue. When we look a little deeper, we find both colors analogous to red. This is a very simple metaphor to the kind of relationship I am interested in as a curator. I like to take work from my peers--dedicated, hard working artists who are on to something--and create juxtapositions that heighten the phenomenological experience of their work and, upon further investigation, reveal their relationships to one another.
Helen Dennis was my classmate at the Hunter College M.F.A. Program. Albert Fung works in a studio across the hall from myself. Each has their own methodical process of layers, control and a fair allowance for lack of control. Helen compresses, Albert builds out. They reconstruct the feeling, experience or idea of a place that is familiar and strange.

Opening Reception: April 1, 2010

Helen Dennis and her work

Helen Dennis was born in the UK and now resides in Brooklyn, NY. She studied her BA (Honors) at the University of the Creative Arts in Canterbury and achieved her MFA at Hunter College. Dennis has been awarded a fellowship from Aljira Center for Contemporary Art as well as a photographic fellowship from The International House, NYC. Dennis had attended art residencies in Beijing, Cyprus and within the UK. She has participated in various exhibitions worldwide and in the US with the support of Queens Council of the Arts, Kent County Council, New Jersey State Council on of the Arts, and South East Arts UK. Dennis has recently completed a public art commission for the Downtown Alliance of New York. www.helendennis.com

Opening Reception at OZANEAUX Showroom

Nikki Schiro and Selena Pisani, photo by Collin Gray

Albert Fung and his son, Rafi

Albert Fung was born in San Francisco in 1970. He studied at Rochester Institute of Technology (BFA, 1992) and Massachusetts College of Art (MFA, 1996). He lives and works in Queens, NY.His body of work consists of abstract landscapes; terrains that shutter something of the familiar but are completely developed of his own vision. Fung has worked for 20+ years in the studio, trying to set down this vision. He has exhibited at a wide variety of venues over the last decade. More recently, his work has been in Armoryfest, at the Clocktower Building in Long Island City, in an exhibition curated by Karen Fitzgerald. Last spring, he exhibited works at the alternative venue Fushing Town Hall in an exhibition curated by Paurl Farinacci, Lilan Engel, Winn Rea and Caroline Sun. www.alfung.com

Fall Apart Again, Oil on Linen, Albert Fung

Nikki Schiro, Helen Dennis and Albert Fung

Davis Street, Photographic Drawing by Helen Dennis

OZANEAUX Art Space

2010-04-03T14:26:00.000-07:00

Officially good news
OZANEAUX Art Space
515 West 20th Street, #5E
New York, New York 10011

My partner Frederic Ozaneaux and I have teamed up to create OZANEAUX art space, a "back-door" type project that provides artist peers with prime Chelsea exhibition space to expose themselves. Frederic has lent me the unused back portion of his Chelsea office to curate exhibitions, free of charge. I transformed the space, bartering my own artwork for construction and supplies. I've curated two shows in the space already, SummerSpace, for the Seasonal Coalition, and Helen Dennis + Albert Fung; this is just a formal announcement that it will continue!

SummerSpace Closing Reception: Artist Talk Picnic-Panel

2010-02-15T08:31:00.000-08:00

Closing Reception for SummerSpace: Artist Talk Picnic-Panel
Curtis Carman, Jessica Rosen, Petra Valentova talk on their art, Anna Lisa Jensen and myself talk on the Seasonal Coalition and the first year run through, the LMCC grant for next year and the open call for WinterSpace.

These do-it-yourself events are always really fulfilling, especially when people say yes and show up. The exchange was terrific and I am so grateful for my artist community.

Steve Tyler and Daydreamer

2010-02-11T14:22:00.001-08:00

...and over at the Alma G. Salon in NYC, Steve Tyler poses in front of my painting Daydreamer...the sight of it makes me "Crazy".

Johnson & Johnson Gallery, 2010

2010-02-10T21:36:00.000-08:00

“The Mott” (Yao Zu Lu, Justin Yu, Sheldon Silver, Nikki Schiro)

Exhibition at J&J with fellow Resident Artists of the Creative Center

Summer Space

2010-02-10T16:03:00.000-08:00

SummerSpace

Opening November 13, 2009
Curtis Carman, Jessica Rosen, Petra Valentova, Julia Whitney Barnes
Curated by Nikki Schiro

I joined forces with artists Anna Lise Jensen and Jo Q. Nelson, and found myself part of Seasonal Coalition, which is essentially a group of artists aligned on our mutual interest in mixing up public, private and functional aspects of exhibition spaces. We operate autonomously, seasonally and independently produce a section for a shared post-exhibition catalog.

For SummerSpace, I was interested in making a group show that was abstractly about relationships, but was primarily about the work; a show that was visually comprehensible and did not need a two-page "curator manifesto" to understand. (I really have never liked, with few exceptions of course, being forced to read at visual events) I convinced two close friends to lend me the unused back portion of their Chelsea office loft, which I transformed into a space suitable to show work, bartering my own artwork in for construction and supplies.

The artists selected for SummerSpace radicalize traditional forms and ideas by their play with relationships. They bring the viewer a new and unexpected experience, each within their own language. I featured work from Curtis Carmen, Jessica Rosen, Petra Valentova and Julia Whitney Barnes.

Propuesta 5, artist talk and workshop at Baron

2010-02-10T15:48:00.001-08:00

We had three sessions with kids, where we collaborated with their teachers to get them to the gallery. One group we had a workshop with, framed and hung their work within our show and had them back for an opening reception (which doubled as our closing reception). It was awesome. (Thank You Baron for making it possible.)

...and here's me talking to these very cool kids and their teacher

Propuesta 5 at Baron

2010-02-10T15:18:00.001-08:00

Propuesta 5
Opening November 12, 2009
Baron Main Gallery, Hells Kitchen NYC

Propuesta 5 is a New York artist collective comprised of Carlos Chavez, Jose Felix Moya, Jorge Posada, Nikki Schiro, and Jaime Vasquez, artists from various Latino backgrounds. The group is bound primarily by their dedication to making art professionally and by the common threads of their Latin Culture. The group provides a platform for artistic exchange and is interested in collaboration, activism and public engagement. Baron's main gallery exhibited the group's work and supported their mission November 2009-January 2010.

Nikki Schiro's Blog

New Work

Imprint Art Festival, London

Intersection Exhibition, Beijing, China

Rubmle Above The Clouds

"Renaissance Women of tART", Review of tART: Year 8

God Save My Shoes' Video Library; Nikki's Confession

Opening of tART Year 8: A Self Curated Exhibition, more pics

tART Year 8: A Self-Curated Show--Opening Reception

Portrait Commission Complete!

Finishing Mural and Installation: tART 8 Show Opens this Friday!! Be there!

New Art Book

tART Year 8: A Self-Curated Show

Talking about my work...

Nikki Schiro talks about portrait project work

Nikki Featured August 2011 @ The Fabelist Magazine

No Proud Scars--Please

Artist Sandra Mack Valencia in El Museo's Bienal 2011

Sandra Mack Valencia (also an active member of the tART Collective and Hunter MFA alumni) is an artist friend of mine who was selected to exhibit in El Museo's 2011 Bienal. Her work will be on view at Lehman College Art Gallery, thru January 6, 2012, and is worth checking out.

El Museo's Bienal: The (S) Files 2011Reception: Monday, September 26th, 6 to 8 PMSummer hours: June 22 - July 28, Tues.-Thurs. from 10-4:00, August: By appointment

No Proud Scars--Please

No Proud Scars, Please

New Book!

God Save My Shoes!

LIC Arts Week: Activities at Reis Studios

tART at Open Engagement Conference 2011

Schiro Reconstruction 10

Art For Japan

Sweet + Sour: tART Works, Armory Weekend, Opening Reception

tART Armory Week 2011

SummerSpace 2011: Unchained Melodies on Canvas

tART Crit: Nikki Schiro's China Paintings

Chinese Press News 99

Chinese Press Blurb Jianhuan blog

四川大学研究生会建筑与环境学院研究生分会

Reaching the Reaching the Peak like Ascending Mount Kilimanjaro...Nikki's Highland

While I was out!

Chengdu Artist Residency and upcoming

Laurence De Vries Opening

Figment 2010

Reconstruction Series on View

LiCa Open Studios

Infusionistas

Profile: New York, S.P.A.C.E. Gallery

Citibank building, Queens New York

Helen Dennis + Albert Fung

OZANEAUX Art Space

SummerSpace Closing Reception: Artist Talk Picnic-Panel

Steve Tyler and Daydreamer

Johnson & Johnson Gallery, 2010

Summer Space

Propuesta 5, artist talk and workshop at Baron

Propuesta 5 at Baron

El Museo's Bienal: The (S) Files 2011
Reception: Monday, September 26th, 6 to 8 PM
Summer hours: June 22 - July 28, Tues.-Thurs. from 10-4:00, August: By appointment