BIO
Toban Nichols, is a deconstructivist artist living in Los Angeles. His work has been seen internationally in SCOPE New York, SCOPE Basel, the Digital Fringe Festival in Melbourne Australia, Les Territoires in Montreal, as well as The Seattle Art Museum.
After earning a Bachelors degree in painting, he moved west to study New Media at the San Francisco Art Institute in California where he recieved an MFA in Digital Media and Videography. He has been granted a residency with the Experimental Television Center in New York, and awarded the Juror's Pick at the ArtHouse Film Festival in 2009 for his video entitled "BATTLESTATIONS!!"
In 2011, his work will be seen in new exhibitions in New Zealand, Los Angeles, and in the Artist’s collaborative magazine “Color&Color”
More of his work can be seen at www.tobannichols.com
After earning a Bachelors degree in painting, he moved west to study New Media at the San Francisco Art Institute in California where he recieved an MFA in Digital Media and Videography. He has been granted a residency with the Experimental Television Center in New York, and awarded the Juror's Pick at the ArtHouse Film Festival in 2009 for his video entitled "BATTLESTATIONS!!"
In 2011, his work will be seen in new exhibitions in New Zealand, Los Angeles, and in the Artist’s collaborative magazine “Color&Color”
More of his work can be seen at www.tobannichols.com
Sarah! Sarah! Sarah!
Dates:
Tue Jun 22, 2010 00:00 - Tue Jun 22, 2010
nfdu PROJECTS presents Sarah! Sarah! Sarah!
The ten artists in this exhibition accepted an invitation to create a work of art using Sarah Palin as its theme. As this project has unfolded over the past three months, I have learned two things from these artists: Sarah Palin can not be taken seriously and Sarah Palin is a disturbing political force. These two states are reflected in each of the artworks in the exhibit. The viewer is presented with a joke or one-liner that is easily absorbed while also being shown the dark reality of arrogance, specifically the arrogance of political ambition, and thereby given the opportunity to ponder the implications of those simultaneous states. Sarah Palin is at once entertaining and repulsive.
Nothing Rhymes With Orange
Dates:
Sat Jun 12, 2010 00:00 - Mon Jun 07, 2010
Location:
United States of America
Nothing Rhymes With Orange
A group exhibition
At
New Puppy Gallery
2808 Elm St.
LA, CA 90065
(cross street Elm and Cypress)
June 12th, 2010—June 30th, 2010
Opening reception on June 12th from 8-11.
Closing reception on June 30th from 8-11
Nothing Rhymes With Orange is a group exhibition including artwork from
Michael Smoler
Moses Berkson
Kathleen Buckley
Aubin Crowell
Colleen Flaherty
David Johnson
Erin Kellgren
Toban Nichols
Aaron Plant
Alicia Renadette
Laura Ricci
Mitch Temple
Gallery Hours
Thursday through Saturday, 12pm to 6pm.
And by appointment
Call: 323.439.3355
415.728.5282
www.newpuppyla.com
A group exhibition
At
New Puppy Gallery
2808 Elm St.
LA, CA 90065
(cross street Elm and Cypress)
June 12th, 2010—June 30th, 2010
Opening reception on June 12th from 8-11.
Closing reception on June 30th from 8-11
Nothing Rhymes With Orange is a group exhibition including artwork from
Michael Smoler
Moses Berkson
Kathleen Buckley
Aubin Crowell
Colleen Flaherty
David Johnson
Erin Kellgren
Toban Nichols
Aaron Plant
Alicia Renadette
Laura Ricci
Mitch Temple
Gallery Hours
Thursday through Saturday, 12pm to 6pm.
And by appointment
Call: 323.439.3355
415.728.5282
www.newpuppyla.com
Dendroid
Dates:
Thu Feb 11, 2010 00:00 - Thu Feb 11, 2010
new printwork from a body of work called Dendroid, which is of Greek origin and means treelike; branching like a tree; arborescent.
The prints provide what has been called, "an interesting dichotomy in the use of this extreme digital manipulation to a natural landscape scene. Essentially creating an alternate reality! When I look at them, it gives me a metallic taste in the back of my mouth."
see more at http://www.tobannichols.com
3 Shows, 2 Months, 1 Artist
Dates:
Fri Dec 18, 2009 00:00 - Fri Dec 18, 2009
Toban Nichols presents 3 shows, 2 months, 1 Artist in San Francisco. Now through January.
In a unique opportunity to see the work of this California artist in three venues in one season, work can be seen from various times in the artists career which culminates in his premiere of new work at his Adobe Books Backroom Gallery solo exhibition. It is unusual to have the opportunity to see so much work by one artist at one moment in the Bay Area.
"I'm interested in the destruction of everything. I was the kid who screwed up all his toys," Toban Nichols (www.tobannichols.com) says over the phone from his studio in Los Angeles. The longtime San Francisco resident and multimedia artist is still unpacking from his recent move to the capital of schmooze, but he's been frantically yo-yoing up to the Bay to attend three concurrent gallery openings, a "trilogy of terror," of his work here in San Francisco."
excerpt from "Glitchy Kisses", San Francisco Bay Guardian, Marke B.
Included below are three links to articles from the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Flavorpill, and The SFist talking about Nichols and the multiple exhibitions taking place now in San Francisco.
http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id=9522&catid=85&volume_id=452&issue_id=462&volume_num=44&issue_num=10
http://flavorpill.com/sanfrancisco/events/2009/12/11/toban-nichols-oppobrium
http://sfist.com/2009/11/12/toban_nichols_three_shows_two_month.php
In a unique opportunity to see the work of this California artist in three venues in one season, work can be seen from various times in the artists career which culminates in his premiere of new work at his Adobe Books Backroom Gallery solo exhibition. It is unusual to have the opportunity to see so much work by one artist at one moment in the Bay Area.
"I'm interested in the destruction of everything. I was the kid who screwed up all his toys," Toban Nichols (www.tobannichols.com) says over the phone from his studio in Los Angeles. The longtime San Francisco resident and multimedia artist is still unpacking from his recent move to the capital of schmooze, but he's been frantically yo-yoing up to the Bay to attend three concurrent gallery openings, a "trilogy of terror," of his work here in San Francisco."
excerpt from "Glitchy Kisses", San Francisco Bay Guardian, Marke B.
Included below are three links to articles from the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Flavorpill, and The SFist talking about Nichols and the multiple exhibitions taking place now in San Francisco.
http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id=9522&catid=85&volume_id=452&issue_id=462&volume_num=44&issue_num=10
http://flavorpill.com/sanfrancisco/events/2009/12/11/toban-nichols-oppobrium
http://sfist.com/2009/11/12/toban_nichols_three_shows_two_month.php
Three shows, Two months, One Artist
Dates:
Thu Nov 12, 2009 00:00 - Sun Oct 25, 2009
CONTACT: Toban Nichols, tobannichols@me.com, www.tobannichols.com
TOBAN NICHOLS
Three Shows, Two Months, One Artist
(San Francisco; October 2009) Toban Nichols, deconstructive artist and former San Francisco resident, plans a jarring takeover of the city’s local galleries, like the opening credits of the original Outer Limits. Unlike those black-and-white sci-fi shows, however, his medium favors bright color, along with databending and media manipulation, with a keen eye focused on both current and nostalgic popular culture moments and icons.
In a unique opportunity to see the work of this California artist in three venues in one season, work can be seen from various times in the artists career which culminates in his premiere of new work at his Adobe Books Backroom Gallery solo exhibition. It is unusual to have the opportunity to see so much work by one artist at one moment in the Bay Area.
“JIGSAWMENTALLAMA" Group show
Opening reception: November 12, 2009 7-10pm
Exhibition runs November 12- December 12
David Cunningham Projects
1928 Folsom Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Open Thursdays through Saturdays, noon -6pm and by appointment
T: 415 341 1538
Press inquiries: info@davidcunninghamprojects.com
www.davidcunninghamprojects.com
“The Tragedy Collection" Toban Nichols’ solo exhibition
Exhibition Dates: December 1, 2009 - January 10, 2010
San Francisco Gay Bisexual Transgender Community Center
1800 Market Street @ Octavia, 4th floor
San Francisco, CA
Open M-Th 12-10pm, F: 12-6pm, Sat 9am - 6pm
Press inquiries: tobannichols@me.com or center@sfcenter.org
www.sfcenter.org
“Oppobrium" Toban Nichols’ solo exhibition
Opening reception: December 11, 2009 7-9pm
Exhibition Dates: December 11, 2009 -January 10, 2010
Adobe Books Backroom Gallery
3166 16th Street
San Francisco, CA
Open daily 12-10pm
Press inquiries: adobebooksbackroom@gmail.com
http://adobebooksbackroomgallery.blogspot.com/
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JIGSAWMENTALLAMA
November 12, 2009 7-10pm
His first show, “JIGSAWMENTALLAMA," is a group show which opens November 12th, 2009. “LockUp,” Nichols contribution, boasts a series of prints based around machine error: the use of texture, shape, and movement are representative of architecture, and is meant as a study and mirror of architectural ideas. Nichols’ classic video “Happy Birthday Dahling” will also be showing on a loop in the exhibition.
Tragedy Collection
December 1st-January-10, 2009
"The Tragedy Collection" is about destruction, manipulation, and the heavy pixelation of an already distorted view. The freezing in time of beauty, caught at an awkward moment stolen out of context only to be reinterpreted on a large scale for amusement of the detached.
Oppobrium, 2008
December 10th- January 10th, 2009 at Adobe books
A re-imagining of 1969’s “Vogue’s Book of Etiquette and Good Manners.”
The original book is taken apart and scanned using several machines at one time to create an exact copy of the original text. Using Optical Character Recognition, or OCR, Nichols replaced every fourth word with “pussy.” The result is less a book and more a work of Art -- something that could not and should not be read cover to cover, but enjoyed as a prank or gag.
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Currently residing in Los Angeles, his work has been seen internationally in SCOPE New York, SCOPE Basel, the Digital Fringe Festival in Melbourne Australia, Les Territoires in Montreal, as well as The Seattle Art Museum. Most recently he was awarded the Juror's Pick at the ArtHouse Film Festival in 2009 for his video entitled "BATTLESTATIONS!!"
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TOBAN NICHOLS
Three Shows, Two Months, One Artist
(San Francisco; October 2009) Toban Nichols, deconstructive artist and former San Francisco resident, plans a jarring takeover of the city’s local galleries, like the opening credits of the original Outer Limits. Unlike those black-and-white sci-fi shows, however, his medium favors bright color, along with databending and media manipulation, with a keen eye focused on both current and nostalgic popular culture moments and icons.
In a unique opportunity to see the work of this California artist in three venues in one season, work can be seen from various times in the artists career which culminates in his premiere of new work at his Adobe Books Backroom Gallery solo exhibition. It is unusual to have the opportunity to see so much work by one artist at one moment in the Bay Area.
“JIGSAWMENTALLAMA" Group show
Opening reception: November 12, 2009 7-10pm
Exhibition runs November 12- December 12
David Cunningham Projects
1928 Folsom Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Open Thursdays through Saturdays, noon -6pm and by appointment
T: 415 341 1538
Press inquiries: info@davidcunninghamprojects.com
www.davidcunninghamprojects.com
“The Tragedy Collection" Toban Nichols’ solo exhibition
Exhibition Dates: December 1, 2009 - January 10, 2010
San Francisco Gay Bisexual Transgender Community Center
1800 Market Street @ Octavia, 4th floor
San Francisco, CA
Open M-Th 12-10pm, F: 12-6pm, Sat 9am - 6pm
Press inquiries: tobannichols@me.com or center@sfcenter.org
www.sfcenter.org
“Oppobrium" Toban Nichols’ solo exhibition
Opening reception: December 11, 2009 7-9pm
Exhibition Dates: December 11, 2009 -January 10, 2010
Adobe Books Backroom Gallery
3166 16th Street
San Francisco, CA
Open daily 12-10pm
Press inquiries: adobebooksbackroom@gmail.com
http://adobebooksbackroomgallery.blogspot.com/
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JIGSAWMENTALLAMA
November 12, 2009 7-10pm
His first show, “JIGSAWMENTALLAMA," is a group show which opens November 12th, 2009. “LockUp,” Nichols contribution, boasts a series of prints based around machine error: the use of texture, shape, and movement are representative of architecture, and is meant as a study and mirror of architectural ideas. Nichols’ classic video “Happy Birthday Dahling” will also be showing on a loop in the exhibition.
Tragedy Collection
December 1st-January-10, 2009
"The Tragedy Collection" is about destruction, manipulation, and the heavy pixelation of an already distorted view. The freezing in time of beauty, caught at an awkward moment stolen out of context only to be reinterpreted on a large scale for amusement of the detached.
Oppobrium, 2008
December 10th- January 10th, 2009 at Adobe books
A re-imagining of 1969’s “Vogue’s Book of Etiquette and Good Manners.”
The original book is taken apart and scanned using several machines at one time to create an exact copy of the original text. Using Optical Character Recognition, or OCR, Nichols replaced every fourth word with “pussy.” The result is less a book and more a work of Art -- something that could not and should not be read cover to cover, but enjoyed as a prank or gag.
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Currently residing in Los Angeles, his work has been seen internationally in SCOPE New York, SCOPE Basel, the Digital Fringe Festival in Melbourne Australia, Les Territoires in Montreal, as well as The Seattle Art Museum. Most recently he was awarded the Juror's Pick at the ArtHouse Film Festival in 2009 for his video entitled "BATTLESTATIONS!!"
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