Nicolas Shake

Nicolas Shake was born in Northridge, CA. He recieved his BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 2008. He recieved his MFA from Clairmont Graduate University in 2011. Nicolas Shake lives and works in Los Angeles, California. His interdisciplinary practice investigates the politics of periphery, the aesthetics of the desert, and the trajectory of objects once relished that have become remnants of late capitalism. Shake scrutinizes the idea of entropy, ownership and labor through the tropes of classical and still life painting. While exploring the outskirts of Los Angeles County on the border of suburban sprawl there are parcels of desert where information is perceptually and tangibly acquired. In these interstitial spaces Shake finds the remnants of domestic interiors from surrounding communities and inserts his multifaceted constructions with an ethnographic sensibility of socioeconomic fragmentation.

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