Tucker Nichols
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 solo shows at ZieherSmith Gallery in New York, Lincart and Gallery 16 in San Francisco, and the Kunstpanorama in Luzern. His work has been featured at the Drawing Center and John Connelly Presents in New York, and Rocket Gallery in Tokyo.
Nichols' drawings have been published in McSweeney's, J&L Books, The Thing, Nieves Books and the Op-Ed pages of The New York Times. His book Postcards From Vermont was published by Expanding Color System in 2006. He was recently commissioned by the de Young Museum 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, 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.