Nicole Sylvia Javorsky (b. 1995) is a multidisciplinary artist from New York City whose work explores the intersection of healing from trauma, a mystical connection to nature, and existential questions through visual art, music, and writing. Nicole has exhibited her paintings, drawings, and mixed-media works at The Other Art Fair, Clio Art Fair, Staten Island Museum, Pelham Art Center, Yellow Studio, and others. A finalist for the 2025 Singulart Prize, her art has been featured in Mud Season Review, Moonday Mag, and Studio Visit Magazine.
Nicole's writing and musical projects as a singer-songwriter, such as her 2025 album and live performance A wildflower grows from the cracks in the sidewalk, are interconnected with her visual art series, including her current body of work, Whispers Among the Trees. In her newsletter Chicken Doodle Soup (chickendoodlesoupster.com), she writes soulful reflections that integrate her interdisciplinary art-making with observations about the beauty and pain, plus the wonder and absurdity, of her human experience.
She is also a teaching artist leading visual art and music workshops in NYC schools with organizations like Sundog Theatre and Togetherhood as well as a faculty member at DEA Music & Art. Nicole's experience writing on the intersections of climate, public health, and design as a journalist for Mother Jones, Bloomberg's CityLab, CNN, City Limits News, and more informs her work as an artist. Back when she was a teenager, Nicole started a non-profit organization called Cubs for Coping to engage volunteers in making unique, handmade teddy bears to give to people in hospitals and homeless shelters. This spirit of care and community along with a healthy dose of whimsy is a common thread in Nicole's work as an artist.
Statement
My paintings, drawings, and mixed-media works explore the dualities of human experience—the coexisting beauty and horror of being alive. Through my art, I move closer to wonder, curiosity, and love toward our strange and bittersweet existence. My internal life is directly linked to my art practice, which explores the connections between healing from trauma, existential questions, and a mystical connection to nature.
My pieces combine different textures, colors, and lines with abstraction, organic shapes, portraiture, and text to symbolize different emotional and spiritual states. Every detail serves as a mode for making meaning, which extends to my handwriting and mark-making, reflecting a spectrum from frenetic energy to gentle, deliberate pacing.
Embedded in my visual art process is the creation of music and writing. I regard visual symbols, sound, my physical body and voice, and the written word as a connected ecosystem. I treat these elements as puzzle pieces to be played with, scattered, and rearranged. For example, I often rip up unfinished drawings and paintings, collage them together with tape and glue, and add fresh marks alongside spontaneous thoughts and poetry.
To articulate the different facets of existence, I employ a range of materials—including colored pencils, ink, watercolors, and found objects like leaves. While some pieces isolate a singular medium, many of my works physically weave these varied textures together, mirroring the deeply layered, fragmented, and simultaneously integrated nature of being alive.