Nicholas Moenich
Taking inspiration from art history, mythology, music and science fiction, Nicholas Moenich’s paintings and drawings create psychological spaces through a complex and personal formal language that is situated between figuration and abstraction.
Incremental and anxious marks create optical confusion through figure/ground shifts and interlocking forms. Cats, mushrooms, Batmans, snakes and jewels emerge from the density of the picture plane. These characters intertwine with text and dates to explore the anxiety surrounding the creative act and the passing of time. The fragmented compositions of the paintings and drawings are direct metaphors of our twenty-first century’s hyper-stimulated daily life of interconnecting media.
Moenich’s goal is to create paintings and drawings that simultaneously have material presence and believable pictorial space full of a certain humor, exuberance and simplification of form.
Untitled (Departure of the Ambassadors at the Gates of Dawn, 11-17-2020), 2020, colored pencil on paper, 17 x 14 inches
Untitled (12-11-2020), 2020, colored pencil on paper
Untitled (Alpha Omega 2020), 2020, colored pencil on paper
Untitled (Cruel, 7-24-2020), 2020, colored pencil on paper
Untitled (Eternity 2020), 2020, colored pencil on paper
Untitled (October 13, 2020, One Cannot Sacrifice to Two Gods), 2020, colored pencil on paper, 17 x 14 inches
Untitled (Under, 11-12-2020), 2020, colored pencil on paper
Untitled (April, 9 2021), 2021, colored pencil on paper, 17 x 14 inches
Untitled (Brazen Beast, March 24, 2021), 2021, colored pencil on paper, 17 x 14 inches
Untitled (Gambit, 2-21-2021), 2021, colored pencil on paper
Untitled (Come Forth Ancient Ones, 2020), 2020, colored pencil on paper, 17 x 14 inches