Contact:
nicholasmoenich@gmail.com
@nich_moe_nich
The paintings create psychological spaces through a complex and personal formal language that is situated between figuration and abstraction. Characters intertwine with text and dates to explore the anxiety surrounding the creative act and the passing of time. The fragmented compositions are direct metaphors of our twenty-first century’s hyper-stimulated daily life of interconnecting media. The goal is to create paintings that simultaneously have material presence and believable pictorial space full of a certain humor, complexity, and exuberance.
Nicholas Moenich was born in Cleveland, Ohio and received a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art and a MFA from Hunter College.
He is a 2023 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grantee, a 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Painting from The New York Foundation for the Arts and a 2019-2020 recipient of the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program Award. He was awarded the Tony Smith Award in 2011, the 2019 Hopper Prize, and a 2020 recipient of the Lighthouse Works Fellowship. He has been a guest lecturer at the University of Cincinnati, the University of New Mexico and a visiting artist resident at Anderson Ranch in Snowmass Village, Colorado.
Exhibitions include: Rue Des Fleurus, Athènes, Allouche Benias Gallery, Athens, Greece (2024); Friends & Family at Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY (2023); Escher’s Lovers: Lauren Clay & Nicholas Moenich at KDR305, Miami, FL (2022); Nicholas Moenich: Eyes and Teeth at 1969 Gallery, New York, NY (2021); Nicholas Moenich: over-under at Furnace, Falls Village, CT (2021); Wild Blue Yonder: Kari Cholnoky & Nicholas Moenich at Disturb the Neighbors, New York, NY (2019)
Press includes New American Paintings, Art Maze Magazine, Artspace, Hyperallergic and Two Coats of Paint.