Nicholas Sullivan

Nicholas Sullivan draws on objects like stoves, cars, and antique toys to create works that fuse pop culture, mid-century Americana, and conceptual rigor. His sculptures interrogate the intersection of industrial design, American nostalgia, and sculptural abstraction, infusing familiar forms with new layers of meaning and cultural critique. Employing materials like steel, charcoal, and xeroxed newsprint, Sullivan constructs hybrid forms that evoke both domesticity and industrial aesthetics. These sculptures often blur the line between functional objects and abstract art, inviting viewers to reconsider the cultural and historical narratives embedded in familiar forms. Sullivan's practice is deeply informed by a fascination with the materiality of objects and their cultural significance. He draws inspiration from a range of sources, including vintage advertisements, political ephemera, and the works of artists like Jasper Johns and Robert Grosvenor. This eclectic approach results in pieces that are at once visually striking and conceptually layered. Through his work, Sullivan explores themes of memory, identity, and the passage of time, using sculpture as a medium to reflect on the objects that populate our daily lives and the stories they carry. His pieces serve as both artifacts and provocations, challenging viewers to engage with the familiar in new and unexpected ways. ...

C L E A R I N G is a contemporary art gallery based in New York, Los Angeles and Brussels. The gallery was founded in 2011, with the focus of showing emerging art. It now represents over 20 living artists, providing many of them - such as Harold Ancart, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Chase Hall, Calvin Marcus and Marina Pinsky - with their first gallery exhibition. The gallery also represents the estates of Eduardo Paolozzi, Bruno Gironcoli and René Heyvaert. C L E A R I N G supports its artists by producing works, exhibitions and books, as well as working closely with public and private institutions. ...