Contact:
nicholasmoenich@gmail.com
@nich_moe_nich
Using a complex and personal visual language, the paintings weave figuration and abstraction to construct a psychological space. The paintings draw from a wide range of sources such as medieval illuminated manuscripts, modernist painting, comics, and various types of music. By emphasizing the frame and constraining the space within the paintings, shapes that suggest text or characters intertwine to examine the anxiety of the creative act and the passage of time. These fragmented compositions, which balance tangible material presence with believable pictorial space, serve as metaphors for our contemporary experience that revolves around the hyper-stimulated daily life of interconnecting media.
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 the 2020 Lighthouse Works Fellowship. Since 2023, he has taught at Suffolk County Community College. 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: Vagabond Shoes, McBride Contemporain, Montreal, Canada (2024); 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).
Press includes New American Paintings, Art Maze Magazine, Artspace, Hyperallergic and Two Coats of Paint.