Nick Theobald
Nick Theobald is an American artist from Los Angeles, raised throughout Asia and now based in upstate New York. He works in various mediums including painting, sculpture and photography, often with a poetic touch, balancing between lightness and heaviness, warmth and darkness.
Theobald primarily engages with the sensorial medium of beeswax to extricate its many malleable properties and spiritual connotations. Whether dipped with joss paper or painted on linen, ranging from golden yellows to sallow browns, beeswax constitutes the bedrock of his interest in abstract painting and sculpture. Theobald’s pluralism has influenced the themes of desire, gratification, loss, and the cyclical aspects of nature that can be found in his work. His work seeks a karmic balance through the use of natural materials; other than beeswax, the artist has also worked with the yarrow flower, jute rope, charcoal and gold. Central to Theobald’s artistry is a sort of utopian idea of and striving for artistic alignment with nature. He highlights how we as humans both utilize and consume the world - and other people - around us.
Theobald’s works have been shown internationally and are included in numerous public collections including ARoS Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark and Horsens Kunstmuseum, Horsens, Denmark. Theobald’s work has shown across New York, Los Angeles, Napoli (Italy), London (UK), and Aarhus (Denmark).