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Nick Paparone, Outdoor Cheeto, 2009. Horse saddle, saw horses, wood, and airbrushed polystyrene. Courtesy the artist and Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia.
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Nick Paparone, Outdoor Cheeto, 2009. Horse saddle, saw horses, wood, and airbrushed polystyrene. Courtesy the artist and Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia.
Nick Paparone, Step through a gleaming entryway into a soaring Midtown East luxury hotel lobby steeped in grand tradition, highlighted with art deco lamps and a backlit onyx ceiling. After experiencing the exhilarating whirlwind that is New York City, return to the serenity of Four Seasons and its spectacular views of Central Park, 2010. Formica, painted polystyrene, wood, coleman cooler, cardboard, digital prints, bucket, top hat, gel medium, towel, motor, packing peanuts, and tiles. Courtesy the artist and Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia.
Nick Paparone functions within the systems of mass culture and the marketplace in order to satirize and expose their inner-workings. Employing a variety of media from video, installation, and performance, the artist states that his work "is slathered with evolving iterations that anatomize branding idioms and client dynamics."
Paparone's work has been performed and exhibited at X-Iniative, New York; Primetime, New York; W/, New York; Fischer Landau Center for Art, New York; Socrates Sculpture Park, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati; Fleisher Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia; Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia; and Bodega, Philadelphia.The artist received his MFA from Columbia University. He currently lives and works in New York.
Nick Paparone, Egg, Towel, Camera; Confessions of an Advertising Man (Detail), 2011. Digital print on vinyl, digital print on carpet, grommets, rope, aluminum, resin, concrete, colored light bulb, lamp shade. Courtesy the artist and Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia.
