“This is not a toy” Massachusetts based multimedia artist Nick Zaremba brings us this new publication of black ink drawings and collage scapes directly derived from his daily drawing habits. Originally all made by hand, the end resulting pages were then scanned to computer. (48 Pages, black & grayscale on white paperstock, First Edition of 25, Made in 2019, self published, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, perfect bound) Email for availability: nickzwashere@gmail.com

2 Hand drawn tote bags to benefit “Art totes 4 good” via Flowering Rock Gallery in Boston, MA

“Remembering different parts of my day” Zine, spiral bound, 14 color pages 8x10” Edition 1 , 24 copies. Composed of whimsical collaged memories from different parts of my day’s activities.

“My Coloring Book” 14 page (8.5 x11”) coloring book. First edition of 30 printed. Self published 2018

Series of 8x10” pieces. Watercolor and ink on paper 2018

Sending Elephants Thru The Mail A penpal drawing adventure thru the mail made in 2018. A collaboration of drawings on vintage papers by Nick Zaremba & Amine Rastgar

wood burning tool on wooden utensils

5.5 x 8.5” zine, B+W

5.5 x 8.5 “ B+W zine, 2018, For availability email nickzwashere@gmail.com

5.5 x 8.5” zine, collaboration with @matthewzaremba

“Remembering different parts of my day” series. Colored pencils, markers, and paint on paper, 8x10 each 2018

Pink Slime Gallery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania proudly presents a two man art show by artist/brothers Matthew and Nick Zaremba entitled, “It Takes One To Know One”

On view in the gallery will be the artists works consisting of color and black and white framed prints of illustrations concerning the artists observations on everyday social activities, mental health references, and autobiographical introspections.  Available also will be limited editions smaller prints, one off magnets, as well as a short run of t shirts to commerce the show.  This showing will be one of many the brothers have organically and intuitively collaborated on together over the past decade and offers a subliminal and sometimes overt dialogue between each others work and creative process.

Also see press in AMADEUS MAG

Also see the individual pieces in Collection No. 46

Series of 8x10” pieces, watercolor and black paint on paper

2018

Black & White 5.5 x 8.5” Zine

markers and acrylic latex paint on paper

18x24”

2018

On view at FP3 Gallery in Boston, MA October - January 2018

A collection of paintings; calm, comfortable and motionlessly basking in self contemplation, energizing, waiting warmly for the curious view to approach out of wonderment.

5.5 x 8.5 “ B+Y zine, 2018

a 5.5 x 8.5” zine, B + W

Mixed media installation at Thomas Young Gallery, September 2017. Overall dimensions variable. Consists of drawings and paintings on paper, paintings on canvas, fabric, pencil on the wall.

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Artist Statement:

The Paperweight That Keeps My World From Blowing Away is the title of my latest collection of artworks from 2016 - 2017 arranged and installed in tight clusters on the walls of Thomas Young Gallery.

The title refers directly to what I think the process of making work is to me as a whole. Amongst things coming and going, cycles cycling, and people and situations in constant flux and change, sneaking away and making time to paint, collage, draw, and collect has always been my “paperweight” while living life.

When I think of my work nowadays and what it’s about, the only way I can form my description is in broken phrases and singular words.
With that being said, the following pertain to my work;

concept based - feelings - fast vs. slow making - catharsis - etheric - records of my vision and how I see things - palimpsest - autotelic - solipsism - pareidolia - special language - ethos - freedom - Wabi Sabi - exploration - seeing vs. understanding - intellect - importance - looking at the world through my hands - television cartoon influenced

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various pieces on vintage book pages and book covers, spraypaint and acrylic paint, 2017

Black ink drawings on construction paper, 8 x 10 inches each, 2017

Paint on canvas 11 x 14" each

9 x 12 " paint and watercolors on paper, 2017

Self published mini book of artwork images. 5.75” x 7.75” with 20 color pages, Edition of 10 from 2017

Flatcolor Gallery, Seattle WA

September - October 2016

(exhibition view)

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Artist Statement
"Welcome to the exhibit, "A real person standing in a cartoon room", which is a phrase that runs through my head all the time and is autobiographical to me.  The proof of this is evidenced here in the form of a large series of artworks I've created on canvas squares but are comprised of everyday scraps of papers and textures mixed with my drawings and paint applications which reflect everyday chance and the world around me.”
-Nick Zaremba

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Individual pieces HERE

Read about it HERE with Amadeus Mag

My piece ( ON RIGHT) “oh yer so fucking cool…” Mixed Media on paper 24 x 48” located on Page no. 217 of the Super Flat Collection book by Takashi Murakami

Title : Takashi Murakami’s Superflat Collection - Publisher : Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. - Essay : Eriko Osaka, Akiko Miki, Tomoh Kashiwagi, Isao Kumakura - Interviews : David Walsh, Ichirō Hirose - Language : Japanese, English - Release Date : To be published in October 2016.

My piece "oh yer so fuckin' cool" on display included in:  

Takashi Murakami’s Superflat Collection ―From Shōhaku and Rosanjin to Anselm Kiefer― at the Yokohama Art Museum -January 30 (Sat) - April 3 (Sun), 2016

Various paints and collage on canvas, each 12 x 12", made in 2016

collage on paper with marker and pencil, various sizes under 8.5 x 11"

Various sized canvas panels . Spraypaint, marker, and acrylic paints used.

various pieces

8.5 x 11" collage, marker, latex paint on paper

spraypaint, latex paint, marker on canvas 

various sizes such as 24 x 36" and 24 x 30"

interview featuring these pieces here

ink and latex paint on handmade paper  9 x 12"

(Orb series) spraypaint, latex paint on canvas panel, 10 x 14” each

collage, ink, spraypaint, latex paint on paper

8.5 x 11"

Collaborative exhibit at Find & Form design space with Matthew Zaremba from 2014 in Boston, MA

Exhibit of wall mural and also various mixed media pieces on canvas and wood from 2013 at BODEGA in Boston, MA

Collaboration interior mural with Mr NVR, Eyeformation, Cache, Jonathan Smith, and Cache in Lowell, MA 2012

Mural exhibition at Gallery 360 in Ell Hall within Northeastern University part of Gallery 360 from 2011 in Boston, MA

Painting on Skip boat within the Harbor Arts outdoor gallery in East Boston, MA

New Age Mural at Fourth Wall Project by Nick & Never painted on 12/28/11

collaboration show with Matthew Zaremba entitled "EveryEverything" including a zine published on the occasion, and a silkscreen print

Kai Althoff and Nick Z, Dream Cereal, Gladstone Gallery and Verlag Der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2011.

Comprised of 49 drawings, this book was conceived as acontinuation of the artistic collaboration between Kai Althoff and artist Nick Z, which was first established in their 2007 joint exhibition at Gladstone Gallery, “We Are Better Friends For It.”Entitled, Dream Cereal, this book further explores the underlying themes of their exhibition and collaboration, borrowing from moments of history, religious iconography, and counter-cultural movements to create evocative contexts that are propped upon narratives simultaneously arcane yet familiar, at once deeply personal yet universal. Each work was made together by Althoff and Nick Z.

available here: https://www.buchhandlung-walther-koenig.de/koenig2/index.php?mode=details&showcase=1&art=1458941

Spraypaint, latex paint, enamel marker on watercolor paper

8.5 x 11 inches

2010

2 page spread designed for; MIRROR | ME

edited by Brandon Stosuy - ISBN: 9780978869779 - 104 pages - 8 x 11.5 inches - 74 B&W reproductions - September 2010

This Zine was developed from a collaborative exhibition and performance organized by the writer, Brandon Stosuy, and the artist, Kai Althoff in the Summer of 2009 at Dispatch Bureau in NYC. It was displayed during the White Columns Annual 2009, during which pages were added by the original exhibition’s various participants. The Zine features new materials by artists, writers and musicians such as Adam Helms, Brandon Stosuy, Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, Kai Althoff, Karlynn Holland, Lionel Maunz, Matt Zaremba, Matteah Baim, Mitch Kehe, Nick Z., Peter Sotos, Philip Best, Scott Campbell, Theo Stanley, Yair Oelbaum, Zach Baron.

Spraypaint and acrylic paint mural. All photos by Josh Falk

New American Paintings  Artist Feature Issue #80 “Selections by: Jen Mergel” Assistant Curator of the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston

Nick Z: And a Child Shall Lead Them

at The Public Trust

May 8, 2009 - Jun 20, 2009

47 Artsite, Burlington, VT 2009

various pieces of medium and size

2009 Fourth Wall Gallery, Boston MA

Solo Exhibition

including collaboration with Josh Falk

wall installation view from exhibition at IDEO in Cambridge, MA 2009

O·H+T Gallery is pleased to present Today's Pig is Tomorrow's Bacon, an installation of paintings, drawings, video, and sculpture by Nick Z.

From Me to You, Nick Z's 2006 installation in O·H+T's third floor project space, was characterized by odd, friendly characters, atmospheric backgrounds, small sculpture on shelves, and enigmatic bits of text. Since his move to New York two years ago, Nick Z's work has shown a building sense of confidence and daring. Often collaborating with other artists, he now works in broader strokes to address subjects such as defiance, wonder, hope, wants, needs, paranoia, physicality, and love. The most recent and most ambitious of these projects was his collaboration with German artist Kai Althoff, We Are Better Friends For It, at Barbara Gladstone Gallery in May, 2007. This large scale installation was described by Bridget L. Goodbody of the New York Times as "a cross between a shantytown and an after-hours club" and "a series of Merzbau sitting rooms."

It is impossible to separate Nick Z's work from his personal domain. Bouncing between the psychology of his inner world and an odyssey of real world experiences, he channels random phrases, spray-painted images, cartoonish faces, and abstract symbols to create intuitively structured environments which might feature paintings hung on the wall salon style or grouped together on the floor, sculpture fabricated from found objects, videos playing on monitors, and random wall art. Nick Z's work focuses so strongly on personal experience and stream of consciousness monologue that it would appear self indulgent, if he weren't such an engaging and sincere character. Like the journal of a scarred hero, his work tells of love, loss, bad times and good. Nick Z wears his heart on his sleeve ... but what better way to celebrate Valentines Day?

Nick Z is a Boston artist who has relocated to Brooklyn. He received a BA degree from the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is best known in Boston as a graffiti artist, and has exhibited his work nationally including the 2005 Drawing Show at the Boston Center for the Arts and the above mentioned show at Barbara Gladstone Gallery, which was recognized in Artforum as #3 on Jack Bankowsky's list of the 10 best shows of 2007. This is Nick Z's first one-person show at O·H+T.

2008 two person show with MRNVR entitled "Empty calories and male curiousity" at Hungryman Gallery in Chicago 

15 x 15"

spraypaint and ink on paper

pen and correction fluid on paper 8.5 x 11"

mixed media on panel 

various sizes

Two person collaboration exhibition with Kai Althoff

More information via Gladstone Gallery  HERE

marker drawing and spraypaint on found thrift store purses

Washington Project for the Arts Corcoran group show of murals enitled "Wallsnatchers" 2006

3307 M Street NW

In the Washington Post HERE

5 x 6" watercolor and markers on paper

“The 19th Annual Drawing Show”, Mills Gallery, Boston, MA 2005

collaboration brush drawings with MRNVR

Fuller Craft Museum exhibition "Trashformations East" , January 15 - May 1, 2005

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mural installation views

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Trashformations East features several artists who have become well known for their re-use of refuse. Stephen Whittlesey, John Marcoux and Mitch Ryerson all are nationally respected for their unique furniture incorporating castoffs. Leo Sewel -- one of the Philadelphia Dumpster Divers, along with fellow exhibitor Neil Benson -- contributes one of his life-size human figures made of junk. Donna Rhae Marder demonstrates yet another take on recycling with her "English/Irish Teapot" made of teabag wrappers. Even Josh Simpson, one of New England's most distinguished artists in glass, surprises us to discover that he uses reclaimed glass in his elegant "Blue New Mexico Mega Vase." all of the artists in Trashformations East have successfully mined the detritus of our "throw away" society and given new life to once used resources.

Trashformations East will be on exhibit January 15 ­ May 1, 2005 at Fuller Craft Museum and will then travel to other New England museums through 2008. The exhibition is curated by Lloyd Herman, founding Director of the Smithsonian Institution's Renwick Gallery

32 pages / color publication with hand embellished pages / First printing 2004 / Edition of 12 / staple bound

2004 

Traveling groupshow starting at Hope St. Gallery in Brooklyn traveling to Space 1026 in Philadelphia and then to New Image Art in LA

Overview: 

Eddie Martinez commissioned thirty-eight fine artists, commercial designers, and graffiti artists to make their own versions of Russian nesting dolls. The structure of these dolls—something that opens to reveal a smaller version of itself—was used as the conceptual point of departure for the show, which explored variations within a collective.

Link HERE

mixed media on canvas 

9 x 12"

3 wall mural

Collage work on paper.

Boston 2000