October 23 - November 24, 2021
From Gray Contemporary:
“Exhibition Statement
The sculpture Accretion is a cave, which is a natural void, but it is also in a process of growth or increase. The space is
alive with organic reproducing cellular shapes which spill down the walls. Land becomes body.
Artist
Born 1981 Fort Collins, CO USA
Nicole Banowetz is a Colorado sculptor who makes sewn inflatable sculptures and delicate assembled forms. Her
artwork addresses vulnerability and struggle. Her forms move freely between growth and decay blurring the distinction
between decoration and disease. Nicole’s work is inspired by the natural world. She addresses human qualities while
using the imagery she finds in the animal, plant, mineral, and bacterial worlds. She has made made installations
inspired by bacteria, parasitic fungus, viruses, radiolaria, rotifers, horses, root systems, and rhinos. All these forms she
recreates in soft inflatable sculptures, which she designs and sews on her sewing machine.
Nicole Banowetz works as an artist in sculpture, design, installation, and education. She has lived and worked
internationally creating and / or showing work in India, Italy, Ireland, Russia, Germany, Sweden, Poland, Taiwan, and
England. Nicole has shown in the Biennial of the Americas, the Arvada Center, Ironton Gallery, Pirate Contemporary,
Gray Contemporary, The Silos at Sawyer Yard, Saginaw Valley State University Art Gallery, The Denver Art Museum,
Wonderspaces, and the Kreuzburg Pavilion. She has also created large light sculptures for the Amsterdam Light
Festival and Canal Convergence, and outdoor installations for Breckenridge International Arts Festival, PASSAGES
INSOLITES in Quebec City, Open Art in Sweden, and Environmental Art Exhibition Barfotastigen in Finland. She is in
the permanent collection of the Denver Children’s Museum, Meow Wolf Denver, and the Denver Zoo in the US, The
Amsterdam Light festival’s Light Art Collection, and Kids Awesome Museum in Taipei, Taiwan.”
On View: October 23, 2021 | 12–5 pm
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