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Nicole Geller
Born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, Nicole was deeply impacted in her early days of exploring the vastness of her grandmas ranch and hanging out with goats. Since her parents gave her a camera at age 7 and she became obsessed with taking pictures of ducks, she become fascinated with the magic of film. She recently had her first photo book, “Sweetheart Rodeo” published with Printed Matter. Her work is quoted by them as a “ode to old-school Americana”. With an infatuation for vintage treasures and the eerie charm of classic horror films, her inspiration runs deep. The vast expanses of the desert, ghost towns frozen in time, and sunburned cinematic frames of old-world movies depicting the American southwest often find their way into her work. She looks forward to more world building through Americana scenes with future photobooks and short films.
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Artist Type: Media Arts: Filmmaker; Visual Arts: Mixed Media Artist, Painter, Photographer
Artist Style: Visual Art: Dream Imagery/Ethereal
Artist Medium: Photography
Artist Statement of Work
Tell us about your work (style, approach, philosophy, subject and/or theme):
In decay Americana the female form stands juxtaposed against the desert. My goal is to create a strong aesthetic sense of the expanse of space against the ideas we share about femininity and the Old West. The female form is often represented as subdued and complacent, soft and pliable. I like to show an entity coinciding with the wide space, as the Old West exists in minds; an unlimited backdrop formed from dust and wildness, a space that must be conquered and explored. She acts in tandem with the desert that threatens to shallow her up.