Chaffey College Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, Home Edition
Artist Talk, Nicole Seisler, November 30, 2020 from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Two pages of an open journal, handwritten, beginning Dear Clay and ending Love Nicole.
Black-and-white photos of the love letter represented in various masses of clay. The writing is a dark inscription on a boulder-like shape of clay with craters and folds.
Five boulders are exhibited on platforms of different heights supported by thin strips of wood.
A portion of an exhibit, with clay platforms, brackets, and objects as well as red smudges on and holes in the wall around them.
An exhibit of three pieces. Each consists of a wood shelf on a clay bracket holding a clay bowl. The shapes and sizes of each component vary.
The love letter on a brown piece of clay atop multiple thin white layers.
A stained piece of paper with pencil edges drawn around the various shades of brown.
A love letter on fractured clay atop the multiple white layers, all of which sit atop a wood platform on a metal base.
An amorphous lump of salt atop a clay platform.
Clay molded into a rainbow shape, each end supported by a wood platform on a clay bracket.
A rounded love letter form atop a white platform on wood brackets.
A work area with various clay forms on the bench and wall. The objects include shapes, platforms, love letter lumps, and brackets. In some spaces, there are brackets with red smudges on the wall above them.
A wall exhibiting one clay body on a platform with several drawings featuring brown and red-brown shades.
Many small squares of paper with spots of various intensities of the brownish-red color.
Beneath the squares of paper, many lip edged plates are stacked on a table.
Details of the residue drawings individually.
A work of multiple brown, cone-shaped impressions bunched together in three rows on a wall.
Two photos of Nicole wedging against the wall.
A video of Nicole wedging against the wall. Several areas of residue are above and beside the area in which she is working.
A photo of a completed wall wedge piece.
A photo of an unfinished wall wedge piece. A pencil grid is visible beside rows of completed cone-shaped residues.
The wall wedges on two adjacent walls, with the cone-shaped residue sections meeting where the walls meet.
13 photos of students wedging against the wall as part of the installation. Each student wears a black shirt and pants.
The completed piece on the wall. The residue marks are uniform to about 2/3 of the way through the lines, then change to show variations where the students wedged.
The second view shows pieces on pedestals in the room.
White porcelain labels screwed to a black background and connected by white chalk lines.
A room with a white-on-white mind map near several wall wedge residues.
A photo of Nicole making clay impressions on one wall. Several shelves of different shapes and sizes are attached to the adjacent wall.
A hand holds three long, narrow strips of clay with text stamped into them.
Six photos in a 3 by 2 grid. Each photo features a white bowl with text stamped around the rim. Inside each bowl is a different substance.
Two sets of long, narrow clay brackets mounted to a white wall hold bunches of long, thin, white rods.
A journal open to two pages of a handwritten letter, starting Dear Clay and ending Love Always Nicole.
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Speakers are featured as they talk.
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