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Autumn 2006 | Volume 29, Number 4 | Features

Response Art Work

Page One Examination
2006
Acrylic and graphite on oak 24" x 24"

Anne Faith Nicholls
SPU Alumna of 2000

�Just because something is hard to look at doesn�t mean it doesn�t have beauty behind it,� says Seattle Pacific University alumna Anne Faith Nicholls. True, her work might be difficult for some to study deeply. After all, it involves hearts � the human, not valentine, variety.

Because open-heart surgery at a young age radically changed her life, Nicholls says, hearts tend to take center stage in her paintings. �My work is a representation of emotion more than of an object,� she explains.

In �Page One Examination,� she says, everything is a symbol. The microscope? That�s close self-examination. The scarred heart? New growth.

Nicholls became a paid freelance artist while still an art student at SPU , selling her paintings in Seattle to buy books for classes. She recalls that now Professor Emeritus of Art Michael Caldwell �was the first person to open my eyes to the gallery world, saying this could be a profession for me.�

What Nicholls learned at Seattle Pacific, she says, helped her as an artist: �It may sound funny, but at SPU I figured out how to believe in myself, to find out what I�m good at, to have faith in what I could do.�

In 2000, she moved to San Francisco, California, where she studied pop surrealism and embarked on an art career. �It was a scary thing,� she recalls, becoming a full-time artist � without a dependable �backup� job. But for the past year and a half, Nicholls has made her dream a reality. Her second solo exhibition, �Collect My Thoughts,� opens in San Francisco in December.

 

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