Nick Naber’s (lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) work draws on the visual language of penitentiaries, New York City corporate landscape, and Brutalist/Modernist architecture, the work emerges from a myriad background of sources to create dystopic visions of imagined cities. His works organize themselves in the linear likeness of maps and Modernist Utopian cities, creating a hierarchy of structures intersecting and organizing space.
Nick received his MFA in painting and drawing from Pratt Institute (2012) and his BFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2010). He has had four solo exhibitions in New York (Trestle Gallery, 2019; The Java Project, 2018; OPUS Projects 2015, 2012) along with group exhibitions at multiple venues. Nick's work has been reviewed by Painting is Dead for his solo exhibition 'Untitled (series)' at The Java Project (2018). He has been interviewed numerous times about his practice and his work has been published in Art Maze Magazine (Winter 2019), A queer anthology of rage (2018), Alt/Process (2015), GRAPHITE Journal (2012).
Selected Press/Publications
2024 “Urban Dreams and Dystopian Realities,” WowwArt
2024 Issue Zero, Pencil Magazine
2024 “Commercial Art Galleries - Nick Naber” What’s My Thesis
2022 “178: Nick Naber,” Free Pizza Podcast
2020 “Virtual Artist Talks,” Private Museum Tours
2019 Zucker, Adam,”Artful Equations”, Artfully Learning
2018 Robinson, Scott, “Nick Naber: Recent Paintings on Paper @ The Java Project,” Painting is Dead
2018 Cipriano, Julia, “An Interview with Nick Naber,” Java Studios
2017 “Artist Q & A: Nick Naber,” Woskob Family Gallery
2015 “Nick Naber,” Studio Break Podcast
2014 “An Interview with Nick Naber,” Land Escape Art Review
2014 “Nick Naber visited by Francesca Cozzone,” The Coastal Post
2013 Worman, Kelly, “Nick Naber,” Studio Spoken
2012 Chapline, Jon & Nam, Lorraine, “Nick Naber-MFA Studios,” #ffffff walls
Photo by Ian Lewandowski, October 2022