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“PARLOR GAMES,” A PROVACTIVE NEW SERIES
BY BROOKLYN ARTIST NIKKO SEGWICK

September 4 - September 30, 2010
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Nikko Sedgwick

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2010
Oil on Canvas
93" x 88"
 




 Artist Nikko Sedgwick dips into a cultural grab bag for his new series, “Parlor Games,” creating oil paintings inspired by Bruegel and Bugs Bunny with a nod to slapstick comedians and jazz luminaries.  Sedgwick describes the artists and performers in his large impressionist works as springboards to explore human nature with its impulses, instincts and questions of morality.  The exhibit opens at the Ober Gallery on September 4, opening reception from 4 to 6 p.m.

Sedgwick, a graduate of Bard College and the Slade School of Art in London,  has exhibited extensively in New York City and throughout the US since 1989. Recent shows were at Saatchi & Saatchi, and Exit Art. He also performed his audio installation, “PSA: From Hymietown to Coonesville” at Scope NY for the Basel based “Vernissage TV.

After years of abstract paintings and a youth surrounded by Jackson Pollocks and Rothkos, Sedgwick’s “Parlor Game” series, begun in 2008, is figurative.  He loosely credits Van Gogh and the German expressionists as his current muse. The Brooklyn artist’s new works depict enigmatic scenarios that are at once humorous, sexually charged and implicitly violent.