nimasprout - Art by Nicole Gustafsson: Worlds Collide

Last Saturday was the opening to "Worlds Collide" a two woman show featuring paintings by Nicole Gustafsson and sculptures Chelsea Bayouth. I flew out to the show and had a wonderful time. It's always wonderful to finally meet people that you've talked to online, and to see new friendly faces. Also I want to give a huge shoutout to the wonderful folks at iam8bit. Jon, Amanda, Noah, Billie, and all the gallery staff were awesome to work with and helped bring this show together.

I created 15 paintings that were paired up with Chelsea's sculptures. My paintings featured worlds and environments to play off of the creatures. For the creation of my works I looked to geographic land formations, mineral structures, tree and plantlife, ancient fossils and bones, weather patterns. I used these inspirations to form individual "worlds" or fictional places. Creating unique spaces and environments in paintings is one of my all time favorite themes to work with as an artist. It was such a joy to play around with space, color, and lighting in these works.

The works are currently available online at iam8bit to purchase. The show will be available for viewing in person at iam8bit gallery in LA until Sept 28th.