Nick Schleicher

Works Exhibitions Biography

BIOGRAPHY

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Nick Schleicher (b. 1988) received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011 where he focused on painting and sculpture. Most recently, Schleicher’s practice skews the perfection of minimalism. Using abstraction as a tool to explore human emotion, he pulls layers of paint over shaped canvases which loosely recall tombstones, ghosts, and windows. His process suspends each work in a perpetual state of movement, allowing the wobbly, color-filled forms to assume a bodily presence. Something close to human.
 
For Schleicher, many works serve as personal markers, created during periods of profound loss or significant transition. The imperfections - congealing paint on the edges, canvases slightly askew, the improvisation of the mark-making process - imbue the works with a sense of empathy and are essential components of his practice. It’s through these inconsistencies and nuances that the paintings acknowledge discomfort, but those moments are transformed into something new, more beautiful, and endlessly playful.
 
Recent solo exhibitions include Monaco, St. Louis, MO; Grease 3, St. Louis, MO; and PLAQUE at Granite City Art & Design District, Granite City, IL. Selected group exhibitions at Julius Caesar, Chicago, IL; The Luminary, St. Louis, MO; and Aupuni Space, Honolulu, HI. Schleicher’s work has been featured in New American Paintings (No. 143 & 167), Soft Quarterly (Spring 2021), The Pinch (Fall 2020), and Under the Bridge (Concentric Series: Issue 2) among others.
 
He currently lives and works in Saint Louis, MO where he is a member of Monaco USA.
 
 
 

SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021: Houska Gallery, LIMBOOO, St. Louis, MO

2020: Monaco, SLIME, Saint Louis, MO

2020:Houska Gallery, Increasingly All the Time, St. Louis, MO

2020: Rick Banger Gallery, Boss Skull

2017: PLAQUE at G-CADD, .skin, Granite City, IL

2017: Grease 3, 6 paintings 9 sculptures, St. Louis, MO


SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023: Gallery JJ: Booth A70, Kiaf SEOUL, Seoul, Korea

2023: Gallery JJ, Seven Keys, Seoul, Korea

2023: Gallery JJ, Untitled: Plane, Layer, Seoul, Korea

2023: Monaco, Faithfully Askew Too, St. Louis, MO

2022: The Latent Space, Faithfully Askew, St. Louis, MO

2022: Monaco, B Sides -flowers for my friends, St. Louis, MO

2022: The Latent Space, DECENTER, Chicago, IL

2021: Plug Gallery, run, run quiet, Kansas City, MO

2020: Aupuni Space, Hot Spot, Honolulu, HI

2020: Houska Gallery, Summer Group Show, St. Louis, MO​

2019: Aupuni Space, Flowers For My Friends, Honolulu, HI

2019: Angad Art Gallery, Spring Exhibition, St. Louis, MO

2019: Houska Gallery, Winter Group Show, St. Louis, MO

2019: Monaco, Royale, St. Louis, MO

2018: Beverly (redux), G-CASH, St. Louis, MO

2018: Gallery of Contemporary Art at Forest Park Community College, SSSS*, St. Louis, MO

2018: Nail Salon, Group Pop-up Exhibition, St. Louis, MO

2018: SHOW SHOW SHOW SHOW, Group Pop-up Exhibition, St. Louis, MO

2018: Donald D. Shook Gallery at Saint Charles Community College, Abstract Rhythms, Saint Charles, MO

2018: The Luminary, Lot 49, St. Louis, MO

2017: The Luminary, Lot 49, St. Louis, MO

2017: Grease 3, ACLU Art Auction, St. Louis, MO

2016: The Luminary, Lot 49, St. Louis, MO 

2015: Contemporary Art Museum Saint Louis, Art:314, St. Louis, MO

2015: Research House for Asian Art, Analog RAM, The Return of Active Memory, Chicago, IL

2015: Art Saint Louis, Painting: Deconstructed and Reconsidered, St. Louis, MO

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OTHER PROJECTS

2019 - Present: C cool WIP, podcast co-host (available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts)

 

CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE

2022: Monaco, B Sides -flowers for my friends, St. Louis, MO

2018: SHOW SHOW SHOW SHOW, A group pop-up exhibition featuring Shawn Burkard, Vaughn Davis, Conor Murphy and Nick Schleicher, May 19th 2018, St. Louis, MO. Organized by Nick Schleicher

2018: SSSS*, A group exhibition featuring Shawn Burkard, Vaughn Davis, Conor Murphy and Nick Schleicher, October 8-November 1st 2018, St. Louis, MO. Organized by Nick Schleicher


PUBLICATIONS & AWARDS

2023: New American Paintings, No. 167, Midwest Issue​

2021: In LIMBOOO, Silver Space STL

2021: SOFT Quarterly, SPRING21

2020: Under the Bridge, Concentric Series: Issue 2

2020: Cancelled Not Entirely Interview with Ghost Art Project

2020: Moonshot Award Nominee: The Collaboration Award Marina May, Nick Schleicher, Andy Alton, and Laura Schilli, cool WIP Podcast

2020: The Pinch, Fall 2020 Vol 40, Issue 2, The University of Memphis

2019: New American Paintings, No. 143, Midwest Issue 

2019: Futures Fund Grant, Saint Louis, MO

2019: Monaco Meets: Nick Schleicher Interview with Monaco members Sage Dawson, Meghan Grubb, and Edo Rosenblith 

2018: It Just Has To Be Interesting, Silver Space STL review of the group exhibition SSSS*

2019: A Unique, Artist-Centric Show And Auction At The Luminary: Lot 49, 2018: Interview with ALIVE Magazine

2017: 6 paintings 9 sculptures REVIEW by Martin Lang

2017: Altered Perceptions interview with Silver Space STL