Nick Leppmann

NICK LEPPMANN (b. 1991, USA) is a Seattle-based artist who depicts the often overlooked impact of our ambitions on the natural world. He mixes detailed, representational imagery with expressive mark-making to create vibrant, gestural portrayals of a world altered by even our most mundane activities. He graduated from Whitman College in 2013 and has exhibited his work throughout the Pacific Northwest, most recently at SAP Art Gallery in Kirkland, WA.

My art is centered around a deep frustration with the societal expectations and consequences of growing into adulthood. Specifically, the actions and priorities of "adults," and the consequences they have internally and externally.

I seek to call out the often-over-looked side effects of becoming a "well-adjusted," American adult. I do this by simultaneously acknowledging how disturbing the adult-accepted and valued state of being is to me, while honoring the people, places, things, and ways of thinking that are affected by, or left behind on, the journey to American adulthood.

By focusing on developing and executing styles specific to each new concept, I am able to increase my engagement with the artistic process and limit my fixation with modeling the finished image after the...

BA from Whitman College

2020 Tiny Works. SAP Art Gallery. Kirkland, WA

2019 New Works. Ward Johnson Winery. Seattle, WA

2018 Wallowa Valley Festival of Arts Juried Show. Josephy Center for Arts & Culture. Joseph, OR.

2014 Nick Leppmann: Entrapment. Thorndike Gallery. Ashland, OR.

2013 Senior Thesis Exhibition. Sheehan Gallery. Walla Walla, WA.

2012 Spring Juried Student Art Show. Sheehan Gallery. Walla Walla, WA.