'Passed On,' by Nichole Maury, on display at the Richmond Center

Contact: Emily Plucinak

KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Western Michigan University Associate Professor of Art Nichole Maury will exhibit her work "Passed On" at WMU's Kerr Gallery in the Richmond Center for Visual Arts Thursday, Oct. 16 through Friday, Dec. 12.

For the exhibition, Maury explores how the stories we tell are purposefully incomplete. We become so entrenched in manufactured realities, romanticized and idealized, that we can no longer say what is real and what is not. She uses various systems of deconstruction to draw attention to our inability to construct a complete personal narrative.

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Maury

Nichole Maury

Maury is based in Kalamazoo. She received her B.F.A from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her M.F.A. in Printmaking from the University of Iowa. Her work explores the parallel relationships that exist within printmaking, drawing, and other process-based modes of working.

Maury has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally including The International Print Center New York; the Scuola di Grafica in Venice, Italy; The Chicago Cultural Center; and The Urban Institute of Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids, Mich. 

Her work has been featured in the Midwest Edition of New American Paintings (vol 89) and Printmakers Today (Schiffer Publishing, 2010) and can be found in the collections of the Midwest Museum of Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art, and the Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, Calif. Her work can be viewed at nicholemaury.com.

Gallery hours

RCVA galleries are open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday, and noon to 6 p.m. Saturday.

For more information, contact Don Desmett at donald.desmett@wmich.edu or (269) 387-2455.