Nicole Banowetz: The Intervening Substance

Nicole’s work is inspired by the natural world.  She addresses human qualities and relationships using the imagery she finds in the animal, plant, mineral, and bacterial worlds.  In this installation the forms are inspired by the silica skeletons of radiolarians and deep sea jellies.  These creatures exist in one of the most mysterious unexplored realms on earth, the deepest parts of the ocean.  Nicole reveals some of the mysterious life that surrounds us, hoping it will remind us how much there is for us to protect in our environment.  

 

Nicole Banowetz works professionally as an artist in sculpture, design, installation, and education. She graduated from Colorado State University in 2004 with a BFA in sculpture.  She has also lived and worked internationally creating and / or showing work in India, Italy, Ireland, Russia, Germany, Sweden, Poland, Taiwan, and England.  Nicole has shown in the Biennial of the Americas, The Museum of Outdoor Arts, the Arvada Center, Ironton Gallery, OpenART, Pirate Contemporary, Gray Contemporary, Saginaw Valley State University Art Gallery, and the Kreuzburg Pavilion.  She is in the permanent collection of the Denver Children's Museum and the Denver Zoo in the US, The Amsterdam Light festival's Light Art Collection, and Kids Awesome Museum in Taipei, Taiwan.