"Gloom in the Room" Pop Up with Nicholas Nickleby Johnson

Elephant Room is excited to have guest artist, Nicholas Nickleby Johnson hosting a weekend pop up exhibition of his new series entitled "Gloom in the Room" July 17th, 18th & 19th. The exhibition opens with a reception on Friday, July 17th from 5 to 10pm and has open hours on Saturday, July 18th & Sunday, July 19th from 11am to 5pm.

"Gloom in the Room" shows us the personification of the familiar and stylistic monsters who inhabit GloomWorld as The Seven Deadly Sins (and their accompanying virtues) with a new series of oil paintings from Nicholas Nickleby Johnson. The sins are represented as a seemingly naive and unknowing creature allows the audience to explore humanity's tendencies to succumb to our vices without inhibition.

Joining this storybook fantasy land is very special guest Rick Zar, showing gorgeous high definition photograph prints of his massive spinning neon sculptures to create a vibrant and bold aesthetic to the exhibition.

Artist Bio
Nicholas Nickleby Johnson is a musician and visual artist from Northwest Indiana. He first began to gain recognition for his "Humanoids Doing Fervid Things" series; ten small oil paintings depicting skeletal, alien like creatures against desolate backdrops and landscapes, which he would eventually start referring to as GloomWorld.
After the Humanoids Series he began refining the look of the inhabitants of GloomWorld through creepy, often cute sketches and sculptures.
Nicholas has since moved on to a variety of subjects with his paintings including pop culture references and icons, decrepit cityscapes, science fiction imagery and his own imagined creatures and realities.