Artist: Nicholas Stewart | Location: Charlotte, NC
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Artist: Nicholas Stewart | Location: Charlotte, NC
Charlotte, NC
Nicholas Stewart lives, teaches, and works in Charlotte, NC. His paintings are developed by structured impasto brush marks, emulsion pouring, glazes, and drawn lines. The painting is inspired by contour, texture, and repetitious organic forms that are locked inside geometric shapes. Nicholas paints these forms budding out of each other through a structured pattern of lines, planes, and sometimes physical elements that enlarge and dissolve into space. The human body serves as the structure and support of the painting as the application and paint become the main focus. The figures struggle to break through barriers both physical and imaginary as the pattern and rhythm take the lead. I am attracted to the structure, design, and idea of the alter pieces found in monasteries and cathedrals of old. The elegance and significance of these religious pieces are an important part of our history and the growth of art.