Sheila Nicolin is a painter based between Detroit and NYC, who explores the very human struggle to find intimate connection. Narrated from a naive and voyeuristic perspective, Sheila’s paintings create surrealist glimpses into authentic and vulnerable experiences surrounding loneliness, mental illness and desire. Referencing Existentialist, Surrealist and Erotic theory, Sheila’s work parallel closeness and alienism, utilizing expressive mark-making, loud color and pattern to create this unreliable and sometimes dishonest story of intimacy within a space of self-despair.


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Sheila Nicolin is a painter based between Detroit and NYC, who explores the very human struggle to find intimate connection. Narrated from a naive and voyeuristic perspective, Sheila’s paintings create surrealist glimpses into authentic and vulnerable experiences surrounding loneliness, mental illness and desire. Referencing Existentialist, Surrealist and Erotic theory, Sheila’s work parallel closeness and alienism, utilizing expressive mark-making, loud color and pattern to create this unreliable and sometimes dishonest story of intimacy within a space of self-despair.

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