Drum Roll Please: Risography for all!

Nick Satinover

About the Artist

Nick Satinover is an infinitely curious maker of things, currently residing outside Nashville, TN. He works across several media but is often found in the printmaking studio. He earned his BFA from Wright State University, Dayton, OH, and his MFA from Illinois State University, Normal, IL. He has been an artist-in-residence at Frans Masereel Centrum in Kasterlee, Belgium, Kala Arts Center, Berkeley, CA, In-Cahoots, Petaluma, CA , and the Mass MoCA in North Adams, MA. His work has been shown widely in juried, group, and solo exhibitions across the United States. He is an Associate Professor of Print Media at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, where he coordinates the studio art BFA degree. He shares a home with his twin boys, partner Brittany, and rescue animals (Neko and Gracie). His work is represented by Manneken Press, Bloomington, IL.

Artist:

Nick Satinover

Social media:

@nicksatinover (though currently inactive!)

Website: http://nicksatinover.com/

Exhibition

Drum Roll Please: Risography for all!

Artist Statement

Memory is a map; experience is the magnetic pull on the compass needle. Often, true North is unfound and the boundary lines, place names, and mile markers are skewed. This folded and aged atlas may not direct with exact certainty but it certainly acts as a guide. Though faulty and incomplete, it provides a level of comfort and familiarity when navigating new places, providing echoes of information and helping to make sense of each new physical experience.

For many years, I have probed the landscape of my surroundings for tangible and poetic examples of ambivalent and contradictory experiences to reflect upon, and throughout, time has been the most abstract but most ever-present. This simultaneous collapsing of long and short, brief and sustained, quick and prolonged is what my recent work has been considering. Regardless of media, I utilize formal strategies of symmetry, contrast, doubling, intervals, repetition, and dichotomies of material and visual languages as a structure in which to evoke ambivalent thinking. My hope in doing this is to reveal a series of statements and meditations about the complexity of being in time: past and present, internal and external, evocative and open, critical yet non-judgmental, personal and universal.