As a painter, Niki Kriese employs both sophistication and humor honed from a lifetime of material experimentation. Her work uses surprising movement and color combinations to draw the viewer in and also create distance. With an interest in creating space through light, scale and drawing, she has pulled visual elements from neighborhood gardens, skate parks, mountainous peaks,suburban interiors, secluded ponds. She received her MFA from Rhode Island School of Design and currently lives and works in New York’s Hudson Valley.Read more...
As a painter, Niki Kriese employs both sophistication and humor honed from a lifetime of material experimentation. Her work uses surprising movement and color combinations to draw the viewer in and also create distance. With an interest in creating space through light, scale and drawing, she has pulled visual elements from neighborhood gardens, skate parks, mountainous peaks, suburban interiors, secluded ponds. She received her MFA from Rhode Island School of Design and currently lives and works in New York’s Hudson Valley.