Nicholas Baxter

My paintings deceive with photorealist illusion to unmask deeper truths of existence, where the beautiful often flirts with the grotesque.

Creating an unnerving believability by bringing technical precision to unlikely juxtapositions, I urge the viewer to question familiar assumptions and pierce the surface of what we often take for granted.

1999-2000 Paier College of Art, Hamden CT
1998-99 Educational Center for the Arts, Visual Arts Dept., New Haven CT

Solo

2012 ”The Apostasy”, Last Rites Gallery, NYC
2011 “Reclaiming”, Nisus Gallery, Portland OR
2010 “Rebuilding”, Last Rites Gallery, NYC
2009 “Healing”, Pravus Gallery, Phoenix AZ
2007 “Surfacing”, Off The Map, Easthampton MA

Group

2013 ”Dissecting Art, Intersecting Anatomy”, S3 Gallery, Chicago IL
“Tattooed Topographies”, Southern Illinois University Museum, Carbondale IL
2012 ”Kingdom Animalia”, Land Rover of Anaheim Hills, Anaheim Hills CA
“Second Skin”, Copronason Gallery, Santa Monica CA
“Wildlife In the Post-Natural Age”, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn NYC
2011 “6th Annual Juried Exhibition”, International Guild of Realism, Sage Creek Gallery, Santa Fe NM
“The Membership Show”, Austin Visual Arts Association, Studio 2 Gallery, Austin TX
2009 “AVAA 32nd Anniversary Exhibit & Reunion”, Daugherty Arts Center, Austin TX
2008 “Artists of Permanence”, University of Houston-Clear Lake, Houston TX
“Drawing Blood”, Ghostprint Gallery, Richmond VA.
“Blood Royale”, Yves LaRoche Galerie D’Art, Montreal, Canada
2007 “Blonde Bombshell”, M Modern Gallery, Palm Springs CA
2005 “The Art Fusion Experiment at COSM”, Chapel Of Sacre...