Nicole Wittenberg: Neon Vistas

  • Nicole Wittenberg painting of three tree trunks with small poppies growing beneath them against a neon colored blue and orange sky
    Nicole Wittenberg, "Wild Poppies Study", 2023
    Nicole Wittenberg (born 1979) is an American artist based in New York City. She is a curator, professor, writer, and painter. Wittenberg’s paintings reveal intimate, meditative scenes from her surrounding world. First exploring her chosen site through loose, pastel compositions rendered en plein air, Wittenberg captures the sensations of her subject matter, then reimagines them on canvas, where a single composition often undergoes a series of transformations.

     

    Wittenberg draws from the rich art historical traditions of painters who find inspiration in the natural world, employing precedents set by the Venetian school, Impressionists, Fauves, and American landscape painters, among others. She has developed series of paintings dedicated to the various natural sceneries she has encountered, including the enigmatic landscapes of Maine, the apocalyptic sunsets during the height of California’s wildfires, and bodies of water like the Aegean and Caribbean Seas, and Pacific Ocean. 

  • Though her compositions are created from observation and life, Wittenberg privileges an emotional state, rendering her surroundings in brilliant colors and automatic, expressive mark making. The resulting creations are personal, unmediated glimpses of universal vistas. 

  • Available works

    • Painting of a forest of tree trunks amongst an orange and pink tinted sky. The grass in the foreground is colored yellow and green with purple shadows.
      Nicole Wittenberg, Rainbow Sunset Suite, 2023
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    • Painting featuring three purple tree trunks with green leaves among a blue and orange sky. The grass is a dark green and light green with small poppy flowers growing in the left hand corner
      Nicole Wittenberg, Wild Poppies Study, 2023
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    • Painting of bouquet of Queen Anne's Lace with green stems and flowers ranging in color form yellow to blue. The flowers are set against a midnight blue backgound.
      Nicole Wittenberg, Queen Anne's Lace, 2023
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    • Grouping of purple flowers with green leaves set over a blue background
      Nicole Wittenberg, Sweet William Suite, 2022
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    • Painting of skyline of shadowed pine trees during twilight hours along a body of water. The sky is in shades of pink and the color reflecting off the body of water
      Nicole Wittenberg, 7 PM, 2023
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  • Painting by Nicole Wittenberg featuring vertical tree trunks amongst blue yellow and pink tinted skies. The grass in the foreground is yellow and green

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    Nicole Wittenberg is an American artist based in New York City. She is a curator, professor, writer, and painter. Wittenberg’s paintings reveal intimate, meditative scenes from her surrounding world. First exploring her chosen site through loose, pastel compositions rendered en plein air, Wittenberg captures the sensations of her subject matter, then reimagines them on canvas, where a single composition often undergoes a series of transformations.