Nicki Green, assistant professor of ceramics, has artwork included in three California exhibitions
Nicki Green, assistant professor of ceramics in the Alfred University School of Art and Design, recently opened two exhibitions in San Francisco and will have work included in a group exhibition in Los Angeles.
Green’s work is included in an exhibition titled “Firmament,” which opened at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco; in one titled “Eye of the Fountain,” which opened at the CULT Aimee Friberg gallery in San Francisco; and in a group exhibition, “Scientia Sexualis,” shown as part of the Pacific Standard Time Triennial, hosted by the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in Los Angeles.
“Firmament” opened Sept. 5 and will be on view through Feb. 2, 2025. The solo exhibition delves into questions of identity, transformation, and reinvention of Jewish traditions through new and existing artworks in ceramic, installation, fiber, and more. Inspired by the concept of the firmament—a dividing form referenced in the Torah that separated the earth from the heavens—Green reimagines the gallery space as an environment of welcome and liberation centering trans and nonbinary bodies.
“Eye of the Fountain” opened Sept. 6 and is on view through Nov. 16. The exhibition is centered around two human scale ceramic figures Eye of the Fountain (2022) and Knot Thick (2022). It offers an intricate exploration of queer and trans embodiment, sacred ritual, semiotic coding, and movement through a collection of new and recent ceramic sculptures, and drawings.
Green is one of more than 25 artists whose work is included in the “Scientia Sexualis” group exhibition, which opens Oct. 5 and will be on view through March 2, 2025. The exhibition is an ambitious group survey of contemporary artists whose work confronts, dissolves, and reimagines sex and gender within the scientific apparatus.