Nic Noblique is a Texas based sculptor whose preferred medium is steel.
Growing up emersed in the punk rock, skateboard and snowboard culture of the Midwest, Nic developed a passion that led to owning skate and snow retail shops in Wisconsin, California, and the Pacific Northwest. He placed in the first X-Games (1995) for snowboarding and after studying pliable materials engineering, contributed a new ‘center point concave’ skate deck that remains the industry standard today. He continued to apply creative insight with an understanding of physics to design and produce indoor and outdoor skate and snow parks. In his early 20’s, with much of his body broken twice over, he left the skate and snow industry to pursue his other passion, a career in fine art.
Returning to the family acreage in West Texas in 2000, he picked up an old stick welder and has never looked back. Nic has participated in many sculpture competitions, solo and group exhibitions with respected galleries and art centers nationally and works with numerous charities and arts initiatives to improve our communities and lives through art. Nic has enjoyed teaching graduate level 3D art at Hardin Simmons University and continues to foster the growth of young talent through apprenticeships via McMurry University. Nic has owned two retail galleries, both highly regarded in their respective communities and even garnering a ‘best art gallery’ award in 2008 for his successful alternative art space and studio concept in Galveston, Texas.
Nic has commissioned hundreds of works both privately and publicly, and been honored with awards in sculpture including the prestigious international Navy Pier Walk Competition in 2003 (Juror, David Pagel), a Joan Mitchell Foundation grant recipient in 2008 for disaster releif after losing his studio to Hurricane Ike and First Place Recognition for “Even Your Emotions Have an Echo” in cooperation with Henderson Art Project 2012.
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