Nick Mittelstead is a Philadelphia based artist working in mixed-media practices that focus on the passage of time, death, and materiality. He received an MFA in Studio Art and an MA in History and Theory of Contemporary Art from The San Francisco Art Institute and a BS in Studio Art from Skidmore College. She has shown in the US and abroad, exhibiting work at SPRING/BREAK, Vox Populi, and R Gallery. They were a recipient of a Cadogan Fellowship and have attended the Vermont Studio Center and the Mudhouse Residency.
Statement -
With a mixed-media practice, I use emerging discourses in mythology to explore the excesses of contemporary art and its effects on audience. Inspired by the relationships between ontology, materiality, and obsolescence, my work speculates on the consequences of aesthetics. Minimizing the artists’ hand in favor of expropriated media, amalgamation, and generative practices, my work asks viewers how and why contemporary myth-making might be aestheticized and deployed.