http://www.nicoleschwager.com/info daily 1.0 2013-01-30 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5358af3ce4b0e4fde0876fe2/t/5358bf44e4b0c9059ae8364b/1398325060801/Bild009.jpg Home http://www.nicoleschwager.com/about-me-1 daily 0.75 2014-06-12 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5358af3ce4b0e4fde0876fe2/t/541a402fe4b000f167fb0ad6/1402527309604/NicoleSchwager_Contactsheet.png About Me http://www.nicoleschwager.com/contact daily 0.75 2019-07-30 http://www.nicoleschwager.com/social-media daily 0.75 2014-06-03 http://www.nicoleschwager.com/about-me daily 0.75 2014-12-12 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5358af3ce4b0e4fde0876fe2/t/541a4f04e4b0423f1486d894/1411010319272/NicoleSchwager_headshot_M.png About Me http://www.nicoleschwager.com/work daily 0.75 2014-12-11 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5358af3ce4b0e4fde0876fe2/t/538ceab5e4b093ec8968f711/1401744058221/Sq_DBSG+DADA+2013.png Work This was the Denver Art Dealer's Association ad page for David B. Smith Gallery that I put together. It features works by Michael Theodore, Kris Lewis, Laura Ball, Paul Jacobsen, Christina Empedocles, Hong Seon Jang, and Don Stinson. I wanted to highlight the vast diversity of the art available and on view at the gallery, as well as the wide-ranging genres and media. It encapsulates both the visual of the gallery storefront and interior spaces, as well as a vivid, montage-like look at aspects of the gallery program. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5358af3ce4b0e4fde0876fe2/t/538cdbc9e4b0d11511807d9e/1401740241681/Sq_Ski+Weekend2.png Work This is an invitation I made for a ski weekend for a group of my friends. I wanted to convey absolute ebullience and merriment, as well as the beauty of Colorado and the personalities of the "Birthday Girls" (including the dog!). https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5358af3ce4b0e4fde0876fe2/t/538d056fe4b04de129aca3b4/1401750897760/NS_Sonoma_invite_e.jpg Work This is an invitation I put together for a slightly last-minute weekend in Sonoma. The photo was taken at dawn with an automated critter cam, and I wanted the text to disappear into the blinding morning light. Plus, some of the invitees hadn't spent time together, so I thought making a list (boyfriends, brothers, best friends) would create a subtle collective sensibility, without forcing anything. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5358af3ce4b0e4fde0876fe2/t/539c814ae4b009a3cbacd942/1402765678225/Sq+HSJ+DBSG+Cat+Cover+L.png Work This is the cover from the first exhibition catalogue we produced at David B. Smith Gallery. Among other included works, the artist, Hong Seon Jang, completed a large scale site-specific installation at the gallery for the exhibition with fishing line and hot glue. I pushed for this image for the cover, and when doing the layout I let the show title, Labyrinth, disappear somewhat into the page to echo the work. The installation, titled Black Ruin, gave an impression of these misty, architectural spaces, with a somewhat mysterious form and overall logic, so we wanted the cover to reflect that. Not to mention, it was a beautiful photograph, which did both the work and the gallery space justice. Photo: Paul Winner https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5358af3ce4b0e4fde0876fe2/t/538ce211e4b0d115118088a2/1401741845438/Sq_MD_ArtLtdAd.png Work This is an ad I designed for Art Ltd. magazine for an exhibition by Molly Dilworth, Sans Souci, at David B. Smith Gallery. It wasn't a full page ad, so the primary aim was to capture attention and interest, as well as draw attention to Molly's name, since she is better known for amazing public art projects. When the ad ran, the works for the show were in transit, but we had some great off-the-cuff studio shots. The exhibition heavily featured sail cloth, so we decided to go with a rougher, in progress look featuring this material. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5358af3ce4b0e4fde0876fe2/t/538cd5f1e4b05f8b8742bbea/1401738764471/Sq_CUARTH+Flier.png Work I put this flier together in 2009 in grad school at the request of the head of the CU Boulder Art History department since I had a bit of design experience. I sourced all of the images in CU's Visual Resource Center database that had just launched, and I felt like it was important to convey the unique natural experience available to students in Boulder (a part of my reasons for attending), as well as the wide range of faculty interests and possibilities for grad students. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5358af3ce4b0e4fde0876fe2/t/538ce27ce4b0d670bad06513/1401741953166/Sq_LB_Hi+Fructose+Ad.png Work This was an ad I designed for Hi Fructose magazine. The work is by Laura Ball, and it has this wonderful verticality and diagonal tension. There is also a delightful walrus hiding in the neck of the zebra, so this positioning spotlighted this engaging detail. I thought going extremely simple, while emphasizing the scale of the work would allow the vignettes within the painting to shine, while the form almost hovered in front of the pertinent information. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5358af3ce4b0e4fde0876fe2/t/538cda8fe4b09d468b148521/1401739924239/Sq_LB+Foreword_BlisssMagazine.png Work This Bl!sss Magazine profile on artist Laura Ball featured foreword text I wrote for Laura's exhibition catalogue for her show, Minotaur, at David B. Smith Gallery. Laura works in watercolor, a pretty traditional medium, so I felt it was important to emphasize that her work is extremely conceptually rigorous, and its beauty here is a point of entry to a broad psychological project, which for this series of work was informed primarily by Karl Jung. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5358af3ce4b0e4fde0876fe2/t/538ce7aee4b0b1c72e6c47d5/1401743284679/Sq_PJ+Artist+Statement.png Work This is the layout I put together for Paul Jacobsen's artist statement in his catalogue for his solo show Orgone at David B. Smith Gallery. Much of Paul's work has a vivid, nearly photoreal quality, which he achieves by using a classical grid technique. The upper left image reveals a canvas in progress, and the grid lines are evident in the photo, which invites the reader into Paul's process, and his very real, very non-digital abilities. In addition, this studio shot, along with Paul's own words on the page, opens the reader to the artist's world in Red Hook, Brooklyn, with collected oddities, and works completed and in progress, to give an informal, insider's view to the mind of the artist. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5358af3ce4b0e4fde0876fe2/t/538cdfcae4b05c7d4d624df8/1401741260530/Sq_DonStinson_MCA+Gala+Ad+2013.png Work This is an ad I made for the auction booklet for the MCA Denver's major annual fundraiser, the Luminocity Gala. Don Stinson, an incredibly accomplished artist based in Colorado, serves a wide audience, but his work is typically more associated with "Western American" art rather than just "contemporary" art. For the very contemporary, somewhat edgy audience at the gala, it was important to convey a clean and contemporary aesthetic, to allow Don's work to shine without any accompanying "Cowboy Art" stigmas. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5358af3ce4b0e4fde0876fe2/t/538cff38e4b08a8b369fd7f4/1401749307587/Sq_DonStinson_StockShow_2013.png Work This was a small note card for the annual Coors Western Stock Show in Denver. The work pictured was a new painting by renowned artist Don Stinson. Since Don is well known to the Stock Show art enthusiast crowd, I minimized his name and embedded it below the horizon, so it would carry the power and prominence of completely taking the foreground, while still allowing the gorgeous image main billing. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5358af3ce4b0e4fde0876fe2/t/538cfa58e4b0aff4bbda6218/1401748060345/Sq_TF_Catalogue+Cover.png Work This is the cover of Tobias Fike's catalogue for his exhibition, Then and now and then at David B. Smith Gallery. This image is part of a set of four images, so it is a detail image of a larger work, but it encapsulates much of the heart and soul of the exhibition and the artist's work, which addressed time and perception of time, as well as our efforts to track and capture it. The white portions of the image (which is a photograph of the artist moving with a fluorescent light) achieve a transfixing, painterly effect and show off the elegance of Tobias's work across the board. . https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5358af3ce4b0e4fde0876fe2/538cca72e4b0525f6f0da0b3/538cca75e4b0371e6dade438/1401736182420/NS_CUARTH+Grad+Flier+Revision_11-10.jpg Work - 2009 / CU Art History Grad Program Informational Flier 2009 / CU Art History Grad Program Informational Flier Test test test https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5358af3ce4b0e4fde0876fe2/538cca72e4b0525f6f0da0b3/538cca74e4b06f897207b00c/1401735811091/Ski+weekend+invite_cropped.jpg Work https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5358af3ce4b0e4fde0876fe2/538cca72e4b0525f6f0da0b3/538d0617e4b04de129aca470/1401751065300/NS_LauraBall_foreword+for+Blisss+mag.jpg Work https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5358af3ce4b0e4fde0876fe2/538cca72e4b0525f6f0da0b3/538d0632e4b0369e0b93d1be/1401751091583/DADA_2013_DBSG_Ad.jpg Work https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5358af3ce4b0e4fde0876fe2/538cca72e4b0525f6f0da0b3/538d066de4b093ec89691c54/1401751152582/NS_MD_ArtLtd_ad_c.jpg Work https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5358af3ce4b0e4fde0876fe2/538cca72e4b0525f6f0da0b3/538d0749e4b0d670bad09841/1401751385245/HSJ_Labyrinth+Cover.jpg Work https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5358af3ce4b0e4fde0876fe2/538cca72e4b0525f6f0da0b3/538d06b5e4b0d670bad09783/1401751224197/NS_DonStinson_StockShowCard1.jpg Work https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5358af3ce4b0e4fde0876fe2/538cca72e4b0525f6f0da0b3/538d06cae4b0d670bad0979e/1430613708521/Laura+Ball+Minotaur+-+Hi-Fructose+ad_final.jpg Work https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5358af3ce4b0e4fde0876fe2/538cca72e4b0525f6f0da0b3/538d06e5e4b0d670bad097b9/1401751272749/DonStinson_TheRoadtoValentine_MCAgala_ad_final.jpg Work https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5358af3ce4b0e4fde0876fe2/538cca72e4b0525f6f0da0b3/538d069fe4b0d670bad09760/1401751207201/NS_Sonoma_invite_e.jpg Work https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5358af3ce4b0e4fde0876fe2/538cca72e4b0525f6f0da0b3/538d0646e4b0369e0b93d1db/1401751111221/TobiasFike_Thenandnowandthen_Cover.jpeg Work http://www.nicoleschwager.com/thedaydadmadetoast daily 0.75 2014-08-13