Discipline: Visual Art – painting

Nick Lamia

Discipline: Visual Art – painting
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2009

Nick Lamia is an award-winning artist whose work includes drawing, painting, printmaking, installation, and sculpture. Five hundred of his small-scale drawings were included in the inaugural Bronx Museum Biennial in 2011. Lamia's solo exhibitions include “Symmetry Breaking” at Jason McCoy Gallery in New York and “Greenhouse,” for which he created a group of site-specific wall works for the Richard Meier building at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn. His work was included in "The Brand New Deal" at Caren Golden Fine Art in New York and "Midnite Snacks" at Ghostprint Gallery in Richmond, Virginia. A graduate of UC Berkeley and Boston University, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003 and was a Fellow at the Robert Blackburn Print Making Workshop in New York.

Studios

Cheney

Nick Lamia worked in the Cheney studio.

Cheney Studio was given to MacDowell by Mrs. Benjamin P. Cheney and Mrs. Karl Kauffman. Like Barnard Studio, Cheney is a low, broadly massed bungalow. Sited on a steep westward slope, its porches are supported on wooden posts and fieldstone with lattices. Although it still retains its appealing character, the original design of the shingled building…

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