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Sara Nickleson

Artist Bio:
Sara Nickleson is a painter and curator who lives and works in Detroit, Michigan. In search of a departure from prevailing ideas around figuration, Nickleson imagines the body as impermanent, morphing and changing as a representation of complex human emotion and cognition. Rooted in her own longtime battle with depression—and significant reprieve through psychedelic therapy—the artist finds solace in world-building that draws from her studies in consciousness and melancholia, as well as theories around ‘deep adaptation’ in the face of climate crisis.

After completing her BFA and BID she recently completed her MFA at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

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