Nicole Sylvia Javorsky lives and works in her native New York City. Her art is primarily abstract and is a reflection of her own experiences, including her grief, healing process, and observations of nature, research, and daily life. Her mixed media, paintings, and drawings all revolve around the idea of duality. She blends varied textures, colors, and lines with abstraction, organic shapes, portraiture, and text to express various facets of the human experience.
Her work expresses the complexity of life, reflecting the coexisting beauty, pain, and wisdom found through survival, healing, and continually choosing to live. Nicole has moved through darkness: a survivor of sexual abuse, she struggled to keep herself alive throughout her teens and early adulthood. Each piece of art can stand alone to represent a particular layer or facet of the human experience, but she also groups and connects them like fluctuating puzzle pieces building her ever-growing picture of existence.
Nicole has exhibited her artwork at The Other Art Fair, Clio Art Fair, Pelham Art Center, Soiree Henzo, Van Der Plas Gallery, Gallery Clarendon, and others. Her art will also be featured in an upcoming volume of Studio Visit, a series of juried artist books produced by the publishers of New American Paintings. Her work has sold to collectors throughout the United States, including New York, Texas, and California.
Statement
Our lives are interwoven together by the contrasts of darkness and light, change and consistency, stillness and movement. My work emphasizes the idea of duality and exemplifies the complexity of life. To depict multiple fragments of human perception, I combine a variety of textures, colors, and lines with abstraction, organic shapes, portraiture, and text. As they embody the healing process, the changes and transformations that are part of existence, duality, and the ability to embrace pain, my works serve as reminders of the magic and beauty of being alive.
As a survivor of sexual abuse, I struggled to keep myself alive during my teenage years and early adulthood. My artwork reflects my own story, healing process, and grief as well as my observations from nature, research, and everyday life. Each artwork can stand alone to depict a particular layer or aspect of the human experience, but I also constantly group and connect them together like fluctuating puzzle pieces to create an ever-expanding picture of existence.
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