American, b. 1966
For artist Nicole Charbonnet, painting serves as a metaphor for the phenomenon of recollection. She attended the University of Virginia for her B.A, where she also had the opportunity to study studio art in France. Charbonnet received her M.F.A from Boston University in 1991, before moving back to her hometown of New Orleans, where she is now based.
Charbonnet appropriates Americana and art historical imagery as a way of stimulating cultural memory. Each of her paintings are layered by collaging, sanding, scraping, carving, and re-painting. The superimposition of textures, images, words, washes of paint, and veils of translucent fabric and paper creates a visual threshold. Her process of painting mimics or simulates the process of memory with its numerous layers and textures, resulting in paintings that both illuminate the past and encourage interpretations that function as starting points in and of themselves.
Education
M.F.A, Boston University, 1991
B.A., University of Virginia, 1988
Académie Goetz, Paris, France, 1987
Cleveland Institute of Art, Lacoste, France, 1986
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022 Late Echo, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2021 Pictures of Nothing, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2021 Birds of America, New Orleans Academy of Fine Art, New Orleans, LA
2019 The Key to All Mythologies, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2018 Paint it Black, Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY
2016 Palimpsest, Southern Louisiana University Contemporary Art Gallery, Hammond, LA
2015 All You Need to Know, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 Art in the West, High land Desert Museum, Bend OR
2021 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY
2020 Nature-Made/Man, Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY
2020 Apparition, Winston Wachter Fine Art, New York, NY
2020 Art in the Time of Empathy, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2019 Group Show, The Sleeper, San Francisco, CA
2018 Dream Weaver, Laura Rathe Fine Art, Houston, TX
2016 Anarchitecture, The Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
2016 La Femme, New Orleans Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
2015 Visions West Gallery, Bozeman, MT
Collections
Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, LA
Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
Peoples Bank & Trust Co., New Orleans, LA
Ten Twenty-Four Company LLC, New Orleans, LA
Tharp-Sontheimer-Tharp Funeral Homes, New Orleans, LA
