About the work

I primarily work with wood as a medium, but my practice of carving and the shapes that take form are strongly rooted in drawing. Flower Stool No. 4 comes from a pine tree that was cut down in Los Angeles. This piece falls somewhere between sculpture and semi-functional object. I used the growth rings and stress fractures as a starting point for determining the shape. The flower form is a meditation, one of several motifs I explore in my work. It is a shape that emanates from a center, expanding and yet also drawing the eye inward to a point.

-Nik Gelormino, 2022

About the artist

NIK GELORMINO (b. 1986, San Francisco) lives and works in Los Angeles. He received his BFA from The Cooper Union in NYC in 2008. Nik has been in group shows at Artists Space, La MaMa Galleria, and OLD ROOM in New York, Night Gallery, Bel Ami, and Arturo Bandini in Los Angeles, and at Jan Kaps Gallery in Cologne.