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① Artwork:
Linemen
This artwork is a graphite drawing on heavy watercolor paper. Its smooth gradients were composed of densely layered pencil strokes to create a velvety surface, contrasted by the metallic sheen distinct to graphite. The artist is interested in dramatic juxtapositions of scale and subject matter while giving unlikely pairings the same material treatment within his visual universe.
Nick Hobbs makes small, densely layered graphite pencil drawings on paper. As an amateur astronomer, his art is heavily influenced by a lifetime of looking through telescopes, and his drawings emulate the phenomenal qualities of those experiences. In the telescope’s eyepiece, every rarified photon of light—like the delicate stroke of a pencil—is significant to the faint image that emerges upon the night sky’s velvety surface. In these images, scale gets confused, providing a strange sensation of intimacy with distant objects of incomprehensible size, magically weaving the mysterious with the familiar.
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③ Artist:
Nick Hobbs makes small, densely layered graphite pencil drawings on paper. As an amateur astronomer, his art is heavily influenced by a lifetime of looking through telescopes, and his drawings emulate the phenomenal qualities of those experiences. In the telescope’s eyepiece, every rarified photon of light—like the delicate stroke of a pencil—is significant to the faint image that emerges upon the night sky’s velvety surface. In these artworks, the scale gets confused, providing a strange sensation of intimacy with distant objects of incomprehensible size, magically weaving the mysterious with the familiar.
Nick Hobbs was born in 1997 in Shreveport, LA, and lives in New York, NY. He participated in the Undergraduate Residency Program at the New York Academy of Art in New York, NY (2018), received a BFA from Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, LA (2020), and earned an MFA from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, AR (2023).
He has mounted a solo exhibition at Turley Gallery in Hudson, NY (2024).
Hobbs has also exhibited his work at Miguel Abreu Gallery in New York, NY (2024); Moosey Gallery in Norwich, UK (2024); Weatherproof in Chicago, IL (2023); Stop-Gap Projects in Columbia, MO (2023); and IRL Gallery in New York, NY (2021); among others.
His work has been published or featured in Booooooom’s Tomorrow’s Talent Vol. 4 (2024), The Coastal Post (2023), Friend of the Artist Vol. 17 (2023), and ArtMaze Magazine Issue 28 (2022).
