Collection: Nicolle LaMere

Nicolle LaMere is on a journey to know cosmos. LaMere works with ceramics and elemental materials to create sculptural objects and transmedia installations. Ideas pertaining to existence take the form of the indivisible all-things via spheres, and the encompassing void via vessels. LaMere primarily works with molds and slip dipped burnable materials. Light, material and time are all central to her work. The restrictive color pallet of white, black and red refer to presence, absence, and the bodily life force. This distillation offers a clarity of voice while investigating the wonder that is existence.

The journey from Southern Wisconsin to my new home in West Texas transitioned me from a landscape that envelops to one that exposes a person. In this place red and golden flat plains are met on the distant horizon by an ever-expanding blue sky. I felt separated from the landscape; I was now a feature on rather than of the land. This separation created an expanse which encouraged a critical evaluation of my relationship and potential impact on the environment. I seek to make visible the interconnection that exists within all things by utilizing biological materials as the liaison of truth.

LaMere spent the first twenty-five years of life in southern Wisconsin on the fringe of suburbia and farmland. Having received a BFA from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater (2011), LaMere relocated to Lubbock, Texas in 2014 to complete her MFA from Texas Tech University (2017). After graduation she participated in the Land Art of the American West program traveling over 6,000 miles and camping through Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and Nevada. She has completed multiple technical ceramic research grants, the most recent being the NCECA Graduate Student Fellowship (2015) and is currently a Fulbright semi-finalist for an Independent Research Grant to Japan. LaMere completed an eleven-month artist residency at The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, teaches specialty art courses at Art League Houston and maintains a studio at Box13 ArtSpace.

https://www.nicollelamere.com