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nick van woert
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Title of show : Small
Type : Group
Date : 2003-09
Location : Chapterhouse Gallery, Reno_NV
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Title of show : Hot Rod
Type : Group
Date : 2003-09
Location : Chapterhouse Gallery, Reno_NV
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Title of show : The Nevada Landscape
Type : Group
Date : 2003-09
Location : Record Street, Reno_NV
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Title of show : Techno/Organic
Type : Group
Date : 2003
Location : Record Street, Reno_NV
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Title of show : Tour De Nez
Type : Group
Date : 2004
Location : Nevada Museum of Art, Reno_NV
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Title of show : The Birds & The Bees
Type : Group show
Date : 2004-09
Location : Record Street, Reno_NV
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Title of show : Start
Type : Group show
Date : 2004-10
Location : Chapterhouse Gallery, Reno_NV
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Title of show : Street
Type : Group show
Date : 2004-12
Location : Chapterhouse Gallery, Reno_NV
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Title of show : Benefit
Type : Group
Date : 2003
Location : Bleulyon gallery, Reno_NV
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Title of show : Living In Reno
Type : Group
Date : 2004-02
Location : Sierra Closets Showroom, Reno_NV
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Title of show : Medium
- Curator
Type : Group
Date : 2003-02
Location : Sierra Closets Showroom, Reno_NV
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Title of show : Sierra Arts Grant Artist Exhibition
-2003 professional grant artist recipient
Type : Solo show
Date : 2003-09
Location : Sierra Arts Gallery, Reno_NV
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Title of show : Architecture & Art
Type : Solo show_one night
Date : 2002-07
Location : Sierra Arts Gallery, Reno_NV
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Title of show : Recent Paintings
Type : Solo_one night
Date : 2003-11
Location : Oats Park Arts Center, Fallon_NV
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Title of show : Decay & Transition
Type : Group
Date : 2003
Location : Bleulyon gallery, Reno_NV
The Middle Of The Week, Nicholas van Woert's first solo exhibition at the Sierra Arts Gallery opens September 20th and continues through November 12, 2004. A reception will be held on Friday, September 24th at 5pm. The exhibition includes large-format still photographs and sculpture. Van Woert’s recent major work Blind Faith (2004), which consists of an entire Braille bible measuring 7 feet in length, will be on display.
Van Woert (b. Reno, Nevada, 1979) uses photography to document installations and performances that have occured outside in ordinary public places. He bring places and events that we all know of but never experience to our attention. Heaven and Hell, life and death, the conflation of opposites, are key to his conceptual approach. The Reno-based artist has been the recipient of a Sierra Arts Professional Artist Grant (2003), KUNR 88.7 Artist in Residence interview (2003), and Reno News and Review interview (2003).
The Hemispheric Mode Indicator (H.M.I) is a series of mixed media pieces that are based on the questions from a simple test that determines whether one is left brained or right brained. The test presents two choices and you have to choose one or the other. For example, one of the questions asks whether you "base decisions on facts or base decisions on feelings." This method requires you to answer the questions based on being either/or rather than being both/and. Answering the questions in this way does not allow you to take a comprehensive look at your experience. A comprehensive look at ones behavior would more than likely yield a contradictory response to a single question. We may feel a particular way towards something one day and change our position the next. We may base some decisions on facts and some on feelings depending on the context of the issue.
Each piece is on a standard sized bifurcated white support. The title of each piece is one of the questions from the test. The left side of the piece corresponds to the one of the choices in the question and the right side to the other. The questions presented by the test are placed in a religious, sexual, or moral, context based on the medium (mostly found objects) that each piece uses.
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Title of show : Medium
Type : Group (curator)
Date : 2004-09
Location :
Sierra Cabinents Showroom
Reno_NV
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Title of show : Young & Restless
Type : Group
Date : 2002-03
Location : River Gallery, Reno_NV