Nicole Havekost exhibition now through Friday, March 14, 2025
Vestiges, an exhibition by Nicole Havekost, is showing now through Friday, March 14, 2025, at Gallery 120. Art shows and exhibitions are hosted at the Gallery 120 brick-and-mortar location in the atrium of the Fine Arts building on the Inver Hills campus in Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota.
About Nicole Havekost…
Nicole Havekost | SOURCE: nikimade
Nicole Havekost maintains a studio in Rochester, Minnesota. Nicole has exhibited extensively throughout the United States. She earned an M.F.A. in Printmaking in 1997 from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and a B.F.A. in Printmaking in 1994 from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island.
Nicole is a fiscal year 2023 recipient of a Creative Support for Individuals grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant form the Minnesota Sate Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
“I make work that explores my relationship to this weird, resourceful, embarrassing and mysterious body I live in. I do so with evocative materials and almost obsessive repetition.”
I am fascinated by the body. I make work that reflects the increasing age and slow decay I witness in my own changing body. Coarse hair grows in places that were once smooth. Lungs take in air and bones degrade. Flesh softens and slumps. I choose to accept it all as revelation and horror.
I am drawn to materials that are both delicate and familiar; evocative of the body, lived experience and memory. I am deeply interested in process, labor, and a compulsive mark-making that span both time and surface. My favored tool is a needle; it changes a surface by piercing a hole and passing through it. That needle attached to thread however can repair or even transform that surface by joining it back to itself or another material.
The act and effects of destruction can make a form unrecognizable and new. A repair allows for the recognition of change within the familiar. Both actions speak to my experience as a woman and mother undergoing perpetual and progressive change of this physical body and my evolving roles in the world.
