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Tucker Nichols (born May 14, 1970) is an American artist. His artwork usually involves drawing on paper or directly on walls and windows. Common themes include found text, buildings, branches, bottles and other ambiguous remnants of our everyday world. He has a BA from Brown University and an MA from Yale University, both in the history of Chinese Painting. He lives near San Francisco.


Projects

Nichols has had recent solo shows at [ZieherSmith Gallery] (http://www.ziehersmith.com) in New York, [Lincart] (http://www.lincart.com) and [Gallery 16] (http://www.gallery16.com) in San Francisco, and the [Kunstpanorama] (http://www.kunsthalleluzern.ch) in Luzern. His work has been featured at the [Drawing Center] (http://www.drawingcenter.org/)and [John Connelly Presents] (http://www.johnconnellypresents.com/) in New York, and [Rocket Gallery] in Tokyo.


Nichols' drawings have been published in [McSweeney's] (http://www.mcsweeneys.net/), [J&L Books] (http://www.jandlbooks.org/), [The Thing] (http://thethingquarterly.com/), [Nieves Books] (http://www.nieves.ch) and the Op-Ed pages of [The New York Times] (http://www.nytimes.com/). His book [Postcards From Vermont] (http://www.urbandigitalcolor.com/expandingcolorsystem/html/tuckernichols.html) was published by [Expanding Color System] (http://www.urbandigitalcolor.com/expandingcolorsystem/) in 2006. He was recently commissioned by the [de Young Museum] (http://www.famsf.org/deyoung/exhibitions/exhibition.asp?exhibitionkey=897) in San Francisco to be its first roving artist-in-residence.


Nichols has done on-site commissions for [Bravo Television], [fuseproject], [Aliph], [Yahoo!] and [the San Francisco Arts Commission].


Nichols is the founder of [Anonymous Postcard] (http://www.anonymouspostcard.org), a suggestion box for the world, designed to allow anyone to openly communicate to a third party without the complications of personal contact. Claims submitted by the public are turned into vague and largely indecipherable postcards and mailed toward the intended recipients. Nichols founded Anonymous Postcard in August 2008 with assistance from Dakin Hart.


External Links

http://www.tuckernichols.com/home.htm

http://www.anonymouspostcard.org

http://blog.sfmoma.org/2008/12/15/collection-rotation6/

http://tucker.thethingquarterly.com/

http://www.nieves.ch/catalogue/tucker.html

http://www.famsf.org/deyoung/exhibitions/exhibition.asp?exhibitionkey=897

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