The layers within Nominated for an Emmy? Curating an exhibition?
With a surgeon’s precision, Nickolai Walko (BFA ’14) presses down on his blade and carves, peeling away layers to reveal the muscle and bone below. Only Walko isn’t a surgeon. The Sculpture + Extended Media alum uses wood, paint, masking tape and an X-Acto blade to create high-contrast, intricate and stylized depictions of human and animal anatomy. One piece, Steed, pictured here, won the Virginia’s Finest Award this summer at the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Arts’ Boardwalk Art Show. “I love doing human anatomy,” he says, “because no matter what we look like on the outside, that’s what we all are underneath.”
Having a movie made about your life story? Had your designs featured at New York Fashion Week?
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