Nicole Patrice Dul is a Philadelphia-area mixed-media artist, printmaker, and photographer whose work explores memory, space, and material transformation through printmaking, painting, photography, assemblage, and design-based processes. She holds an M.F.A. in Printmaking from Pratt Institute and a B.F.A. in Painting and Drawing from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University. Nicole has presented numerous solo and group exhibitions, and her work is held in private collections.
She currently serves as Co-President of the Cheltenham Printmakers Guild, is co-founder of the Star Wheel Printers collective (2014–2021), and is an active member of 3rd Street Gallery, contributing to initiatives that expand community access to studio art practices. Nicole teaches studio art, design, and art history at Holy Family University and regional arts institutions, where she integrates studio research, design thinking, and professional practice. In addition to her studio work, she collaborates on creative retail and design ventures through Facelift Thrift LLC, D.B.A., Ten Thirty-One Curios.
She currently serves as Co-President of the Cheltenham Printmakers Guild, is co-founder of the Star Wheel Printers collective (2014–2021), and is an active member of 3rd Street Gallery, contributing to initiatives that expand community access to studio art practices. Nicole teaches studio art, design, and art history at Holy Family University and regional arts institutions, where she integrates studio research, design thinking, and professional practice. In addition to her studio work, she collaborates on creative retail and design ventures through Facelift Thrift LLC, D.B.A., Ten Thirty-One Curios.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Nicole Patrice Dul examines social geography through printmaking and painting. She seeks to open dialogue about common experiences, pleasures and frustrations that come with home, place and national identity. Nicole observes cities that teem with busy industry and technology as well as rural areas that are quiet, spacious, and at times, run-down. She is inspired by each locale’s history and culture. Her work reveals the effects of humanity on space and space on humanity and exists based on time, the metamorphoses that are revealed through deterioration, destruction, reformation and renewal. According to playwright Tom Stoppard, “Every exit is an entry some where else.” Just as place transitions and transforms, so do art and the process of creating art. Nicole Patrice Dul discovers the beauty in transitions that occur as place becomes space, space becomes place and existence becomes story. Printmaking affords her a way to combine process and medium, explore new methods, and experiment with mixed media. It allows her to integrate her creativity with her consciousness of social and psychological geography as well as her interest in cultural history. Nicole’s work is comprised of representational imagery translated into intaglio, relief, silkscreen and planographic prints, mixed media paintings and artist books.
BIO
Nicole holds a B.F.A. in Painting and Drawing from Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA and an M.F.A. in Printmaking from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. She is an active group and solo exhibitor and an ongoing member of Third Street Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, Cheltenham Print Guild, Cheltenham, PA, and Orchard Artworks, a Fine Art and Craft Cooperative in Bryn Athyn, PA.
Nicole has been teaching art to adults and children for 12 years and is currently a faculty member of Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Cheltenham, PA, Holy Family University, Fleisher Art Memorial in Philadelphia, PA. She is co-founder and co-director of Star Wheel Printers, a Philadelphia print collective that aims to promote and share printmaking with other artists and local communities. Nicole is also an entrepreneur who uses her creativity to revamp vintage lamps and home goods as Facelift Thrift LLC’s co-owner.
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Nicole has been teaching art to adults and children for 12 years and is currently a faculty member of Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Cheltenham, PA, Holy Family University, Fleisher Art Memorial in Philadelphia, PA. She is co-founder and co-director of Star Wheel Printers, a Philadelphia print collective that aims to promote and share printmaking with other artists and local communities. Nicole is also an entrepreneur who uses her creativity to revamp vintage lamps and home goods as Facelift Thrift LLC’s co-owner.
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