Nicholas Moenich
Nicholas Moenich creates paintings, drawings, sculptures, and installations that defy logical pictorial space through repetition of geometric forms.
Moenich’s grayscale paintings and drawings take on M.C. Escher-like challenges of building architectural space that is both flat and dimensional, as twisting pipes, cracked surfaces, and wooden scaffolding swap figure and ground, up and down. From these spaces, cartoon figures emerge, such as cats, mushrooms, super heros, snakes and jewels. Moenich’s work borrows from art history, mythology, punk rock, and science fiction to create eerie psychological spaces. His complex and personal formal language is situated between figuration and abstraction—creating paintings that simultaneously possess material presence and pictorial space full of sinister humor. For Moenich, the fragmented compositions of the paintings are direct metaphors of the twenty-first century’s hyper-stimulated daily life of interconnecting media.
New York, NY
Born 1985, Cleveland, OH
2011 MFA Hunter College, New York, NY
2008 BFA Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
www.nicholasmoenich.com