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PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST GLENCOE PAINTER AND SCULPTOR NICOLE GORDON EMBRACES HER NEW PROJECT TO SHARE THE STORIES OF THOSE TOUCHED BY CANCER. EDITED BY SHERRY THOMAS THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
As a busy mom to three young boys, Glencoe’s Nicole Gordon works hard to maintain a balance between her work as an artist and home life. It’s not always easy, but art is her meditation, her therapy. “I don’t think I’m unlike many artists in that I have this almost compulsion inside of me to make art,” says Gordon, whose work has been shown in galleries around the country. “It fulfills something that is unexplained and it’s here for me whenever I need it.” The result of that drive to “make art” was on display in an exhibition of her paintings and sculptural work that recently closed at the Bellevue Arts Museum outside of Seattle, Washington. Spanning three galleries on the second floor of the museum, it was a showcase of Gordon’s work over the last decade—demonstrating different periods in her evolution as an artist. Think amusement parks and rides that mesh pop culture iconography. Think Walt Disney’s Mad Hatter teacup. Think 3D sculptural images that allow the viewer to physically enter the narrative of the artwork and interact with it— fully engaging with narratives are sometimes disorienting and irrational, in stark contrast to the logic that guides our everyday lives. Think virtual reality, on canvas. Earlier this year, Gordon became involved in a new project that portrays a different kind of reality, one that is equally disorienting but Continues on PG 10
Nicole Gordon PHOTOGRAPHY BY ROBIN SUBAR / STYLING BY JULIEANN ROSS