Artist: Nicole Croom | Location: Columbia, SC
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Artist: Nicole Croom | Location: Columbia, SC
Columbia, SC
Niki Croom painted since she was six years old. This led Niki to apply to the Visual Arts program at the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts & Humanities, a public residential high school in Greenville, South Carolina. While there, Niki began to shift from seeing herself as a painter as she found her paintings too unresolved and personal to share with the world. This led her to explore her interest in ceramics and sculpture. Niki integrated her painting techniques into each ceramic art piece.
Niki continued this exploration when she attended the Fine Arts program at Alfred University in Alfred, New York. There, she learned not only how to combine her two passions of painting and ceramics, but realized she needed both in her artistic journey. Niki decided to incorporate the human body into her paintings and ceramics. Soon, she fell in love with the figure and the vulnerability she found in it. It is the vulnerability behind her art that pushes her to create and share.
Artist Website
https://www.croomerart.com