Heat Waves
Nicole Nadeau

September 4 – October 9, 2021
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

KDR305 presents Heat Waves, an exhibition of resin wall works and sculptures by Nicole Nadeau. The show encompasses two bodies of work dealing with the notion of movement, repetition, and time. Trained in industrial design and a fifth-generation craftsman, her work blends the manufactured with natural materials and techniques to create conceptual installations & sculptures.

In her match works tilted Nothing is Constant 1-11, Nadeau explores the state of awareness of the individual, using meticulously burnt matchsticks as a metaphorical tool for the awareness of similarity and distinction. The ritualistic process is rule constrained, each match is burnt the same way each time. However, as a result, the matches burn differently every time even if appearing similar at first glance.

Nothing is Constant works as a mantra to the artist and viewer, although things may appear the same they can be unique and very different. She finds peace in the idea of nothing being the same. Exercising different UV resin materials to mark & document the intense UV rays & sunlight in Miami.  The UV palette becomes visible as the resin ranges from yellows, ambers, to clear.

Her ceramics Permanently Temporary, Temporarily Permanent, explore nature’s constant movement. Nadeau takes ease in the fact that even still objects, like furniture are in constant movement. Subatomic particles and molecules vibrate uninhibited to the human eye. The ceramic sculptures mimic electromagnetic waves, waterlines, tree lines, mountain ranges, vibrations, and rock formations. The forms are made with the ceramic technique of coiling. Unlike most of Nadeau's work which is methodically planned, this work is made organically at the moment. Approaching each sculpture-like nature and its random processes of formation and erosion. 

Nicole Nadeau ( b. 1984, Cromwell, Connecticut ) 
Nadeau’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Portraits of Origin, Y Gallery (2012), a solo show curated by Kyle DeWoody, “A Flower by Another Name", That That Gallery (2018). Her work was included in Tool, at Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum (2014); Jungle, The Hole (2021), 3 Day Weekend, The Fireplace Project (2020), 100 Sculptures, Anonymous Gallery (2021), Design Autopsy, Rochester Institute of Technology (2014); Littlest Sister, Spinello Projects (2015); Cannibals, Copy & Paste, Spring Break Art Fair (2016); Fact and Fiction, Spring Break Art Fair LA (2019); site-specific installation Everyone Thought I Was You, Collective Design Fair (2016); Velvet Elvis, Christy’s Art Center (2017); Reimagine the Domestic, Salomon Contemporary (2019). Her art objects can be found at The Whitney Museum, The Street & The Shop, and 56 Henry Gallery. She received her BFA from Parsons School of Design in 2007, studied at Rochester Institute of Technology (2002-2005) and Wesleyan University (1998). She currently lives between New York and Los Angeles. 

KDR305 is a contemporary exhibition space housed in a 101 yr old cottage in the heart of Little Havana in Miami, FL. The exhibition opens Saturday, September 4, from 6-9 pm. For images and information please contact katia@kdr305.com