Drawings
November 16–December 20, 2025
Using a complex and personal visual language, Nicholas Moenich's drawings weave figuration and abstraction to construct a psychological space. Drawing from a wide range of sources—including medieval illuminated manuscripts, modernist painting, comics, and various forms of music—the works invite viewers into layered worlds where image, rhythm, and emotion intersect.
By emphasizing the frame and constraining the pictorial space, Moenich creates dynamic compositions in which shapes that suggest text or characters intertwine, examining the anxiety of the creative act and the passage of time. These fragmented, sensorially rich compositions balance tangible material presence with believable pictorial depth, serving as metaphors for the contemporary condition—one defined by the hyper-stimulated, interwoven realities of modern media and perception.
November 16–December 20, 2025
Using a complex and personal visual language, Nicholas Moenich's drawings weave figuration and abstraction to construct a psychological space. Drawing from a wide range of sources—including medieval illuminated manuscripts, modernist painting, comics, and various forms of music—the works invite viewers into layered worlds where image, rhythm, and emotion intersect.
By emphasizing the frame and constraining the pictorial space, Moenich creates dynamic compositions in which shapes that suggest text or characters intertwine, examining the anxiety of the creative act and the passage of time. These fragmented, sensorially rich compositions balance tangible material presence with believable pictorial depth, serving as metaphors for the contemporary condition—one defined by the hyper-stimulated, interwoven realities of modern media and perception.
Nicholas Moenich was born in Cleveland, Ohio and received a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art and a MFA from Hunter College. He is a 2023 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grantee, a 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Painting from The New York Foundation for the Arts and a 2019-2020 recipient of the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program Award. He was awarded the Tony Smith Award in 2011, the 2019 Hopper Prize, and the 2020 Lighthouse Works Fellowship. Since 2023, he has taught at Suffolk County Community College. He has been a guest lecturer at the University of Cincinnati, the University of New Mexico and a visiting artist resident at Anderson Ranch in Snowmass Village, Colorado. Exhibitions include: Holiday, Harper’s, New York, NY (2024); Vagabond Shoes, McBride Contemporain, Montreal, Canada (2024); Rue Des Fleurus, Athènes, Allouche Benias Gallery, Athens, Greece (2024); Friends & Family at Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY (2023); Escher’s Lovers: Lauren Clay & Nicholas Moenich at KDR305, Miami, FL (2022); Nicholas Moenich: Eyes and Teeth at 1969 Gallery, New York, NY (2021); Nicholas Moenich: over-under at Furnace, Falls Village, CT (2021). Press includes New American Paintings, Maake Magazine, Art Maze Magazine, Artspace, Hyperallergic, and Two Coats of Paint.