Nikki Greene: ALTARS @ UNTITLED Vol.2
Please join UNTITLED Vol.2 Friday March 6th at 6-8p for an intimate Artist talk and closing reception for Nikki Greene’s solo exhibition, ALTARS. Guests can expect a moderated talk followed by casual Q/A and the opportunity to engage directly with the artist about her process in creating this body of work. Light refreshments will be available for donation.
About the Exhibition
In this new body of work Greene explores creating through spaces where loneliness, intimacy, desire, and quiet transformation lay bare. Control is relinquished, trust and vulnerability are embraced all while tracing an alchemical shift in her process. Perfection is surrendered by way of openness and acceptance. Through these emotional thresholds we find moments of pause, decay, and rebirth all held in delicate balance.
Developed from a series of collages begun in 2020, ALTARS emerged during a period of profound transition as Greene moved from New York City to near-complete isolation in Pacifica, Ca. That displacement, both physical and emotional, shaped a new way of seeing defined by distance and meditation. Life is increasingly experienced through lenses, screens, windows, and passing frames, where moments are witnessed rather than inhabited. These ‘filtered’ encounters complicate memory and discernment, fragmenting experience into an endless string of parallel realities.
Throughout the exhibition, intimacy takes on multiple forms: voyeuristic, tender, erotic, and mortal. Flowers bloom and decay; bodies are suggested rather than revealed. Quilting and patchwork emerge as acts of care and commemoration. Landscapes glimpsed in transit appear as fleeting impressions, often encountered alone and shared online as proof of existence. In conjunction, they speak to isolation within connectivity, where intimacy is sought through images and screens even as longing persists.
Together, these works hold that longing and protection in tandem, asking what it means to be seen, to desire, and to remain open in a chaotic world that continually passes us by.
Nikki Greene is an artist based in San Francisco, California, with a commitment to analog photography, written word, archival work, and installation. Her interest is in non-linear storytelling informed by personal and collective histories, memory and perception. Her projects range from documenting cattle ranchers in Wyoming, to portraits of a women’s, masked theater group in Virginia, to deeply personal reflections and narratives.
She has exhibited both locally and internationally, including solo exhibitions in San Francisco and New York City, and group shows in Brooklyn and China. She recently took part of the AFMPII - Annual Fotofilmic Mentoring Program for 2024/2025 which culminated in group exhibitions in Bowen Island and Paris. In 2022, she was invited to attend Charcoal Book Club’s Chico Portfolio Review (Montana). In 2019, she held residencies at Kala Art Institute Artist-in-Residence Program (Berkeley, CA) and Jentel Artist Residency (Wyoming). In 2019, She held solo photography shows for her self-published book Zero Days Left at Book & Job Gallery (San Francisco, CA) and at 22 Ludlow (NYC).
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