nic coviello:
nscoviello@verizon.net
www.inliquid.com

My work is motivated by the life affirming activities of creating visual responses to the lines, forms and rhythms of the physical world around me.

I combine new and traditional technologies, often on the same multilayered image, as a way to replicate the observations, thoughts and recollections that drives the work. This multi-layered process helps me to find personal ways to regenerate visually the ephemeral and graphic qualities of found objects (relics) and random sights that capture my attention and provide those prized moments that follow a new discovery.

Finding and collecting plant-life debris, from natural or planned shedding, and bringing new life to its form, mimics in a simple but profound way, the extraordinary gift of life (a cadaver kidney transplant) that will forever repurpose my artmaking.

Selected shows: •University of Pennsylvania, Meyerson Gallery, Philadelphia, 2002 •Rosemont College, Works on Paper, Rosemont, PA, 1996 •Design Arts Gallery, Drexel University, 1993 •Faculty Club, University of Pennsylvania, 1992 •Gross-McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, 1974, 1976 & 78 •Houston Hall Art Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, 1973 •University of Connecticut, Torrington, 1972 •Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT., 1971

•Vast Regeneration Line Project, MBN Studio C, September 2004 •Faculty Exhibition, Addams Gallery, U. of Pennsylvania, Spring 2004 •Works on Paper, Spring 2003, Perkins Center for the Arts, •Juror Joseph Jacobs •Penn/Korea Focal Points, UPENN Faculty at Korean U of Arts, Seoul, Korea 2002 •Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 2002 & 2004 Regional Juried Alumni Show •Penn Charter Annual Competition, Three Monoprints, Philadelphia, 2001 •Philadelphia Prints USA, Museums in Bulgaria, Latvia & Estonia, 1995