Friday, October 14, 2011
Friday, September 30, 2011
Calvary Cemetery 2011
In addition, I have been extremely busy interning at The Sculpture Center in Cleveland, Ohio for the past four months and will continue on through October. November and December will be dominated by studio time, so expect frequent updates and countless works on my formal website.
Currently I await approval for a permanent installation to be inside of the East Cleveland Township Cemetery. I will announce the verdict when it is released.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
New work added to Unknown Certainty
Click here to see a new Unknown Certainty.
This ongoing series has granted me the ability to have a studio practice while volunteering countless hours as an intern at The Sculpture Center in Cleveland, Ohio and working full-time at a nearby Starbucks.
Look forward to seeing a series of paintings in November and December, as I will be taking some time away from the internship to further my studio time and practice.
This ongoing series has granted me the ability to have a studio practice while volunteering countless hours as an intern at The Sculpture Center in Cleveland, Ohio and working full-time at a nearby Starbucks.
Look forward to seeing a series of paintings in November and December, as I will be taking some time away from the internship to further my studio time and practice.
Friday, September 9, 2011
Introducing Formal Website
Good evening. There is now a formal website for viewing the installations and sculpture of Nicholas Fenell.
Do not fret though. Nicholas has every intent on keeping this blog up to date and to continue to show process and share readings through this blog.
Do not fret though. Nicholas has every intent on keeping this blog up to date and to continue to show process and share readings through this blog.
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Unknown Certainty (ongoing installations) Image Set 2
Note: Nicholas Fenell did not partake in the graffiti seen in above images. Rather, objects were placed in relation to the space and the text of the graffiti.
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Unknown Certainty (ongoing installations) Image Set 1
Images of selected completed Unknown Certainty installations. 2011.
Monday, June 6, 2011
Work in Progress: Writings on Unknown Certainty project
This is a writing revolving around a project I am developing and currently making elements for. No Unknown Certainties have been realized yet but pictures will be posted as they come to fruition.
Project Statement:
Unknown Certainty is a series of outdoor installations that use the form of roadside memorial to investigate non-specific markers of death. Within the installations, the objects comprising the memorials give no mention to specifics of the one memorialized. No name, photos, or references to gender, race, sexuality, and age are found. The sites for these memorials are not spectacular but rather mundane niches of roads, underpasses, wooded lands, and public parks. Although the form is instantly recognizable as a memorial and reminds of the inevitability of death, the namelessness and lack of objects reflecting personality creates the unknown. Who the memorial is for, why it is there, and how the namelessness of these memorials incites a fear of being forgotten all center on the unknown and the unremembered. Often constructed of banal and some ephemeral materials, these works touch further on the unremembered through the unspectacular and non prestigious quality of objects in the memorials and the impermanence of their erection. Within the context of contemporary ways of mourning and grieving, the spontaneous roadside memorial has come to prominence over the romantic graveyard. Through Unknown Certainty, the impromptu nature of roadside memorials is addressed and a concern for long-term upkeep and existence of these memorials is illustrated by visual evidence of decay and neglect as well as the temporal nature of the installations.
Project Statement:
Unknown Certainty is a series of outdoor installations that use the form of roadside memorial to investigate non-specific markers of death. Within the installations, the objects comprising the memorials give no mention to specifics of the one memorialized. No name, photos, or references to gender, race, sexuality, and age are found. The sites for these memorials are not spectacular but rather mundane niches of roads, underpasses, wooded lands, and public parks. Although the form is instantly recognizable as a memorial and reminds of the inevitability of death, the namelessness and lack of objects reflecting personality creates the unknown. Who the memorial is for, why it is there, and how the namelessness of these memorials incites a fear of being forgotten all center on the unknown and the unremembered. Often constructed of banal and some ephemeral materials, these works touch further on the unremembered through the unspectacular and non prestigious quality of objects in the memorials and the impermanence of their erection. Within the context of contemporary ways of mourning and grieving, the spontaneous roadside memorial has come to prominence over the romantic graveyard. Through Unknown Certainty, the impromptu nature of roadside memorials is addressed and a concern for long-term upkeep and existence of these memorials is illustrated by visual evidence of decay and neglect as well as the temporal nature of the installations.
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