In her second solo exhibition at HEDGE Gallery, Cleveland artist Nikki Woods creates a series of new, lush and psychologically resonant paintings. Vivid Wild Things features sumptuous paintings that depict subjects ranging from the female form, to ghosts and porcelain tchotchkes. With confident brushwork and an exuberant color palette, Woods deftly negotiates pop culture, art history, and mysticism to conjure a glimpse of another world. 

Nikki’s oil paintings have evolved from a place of ethereal representation to an impressionistic state of exploration. Her interpretations of women, landscape and beautiful objects are loose, adventurous and exactly as the title of the exhibit suggests: “vivid, wild things.”

Nikki Woods is a 2012 graduate from The Cleveland Institute of Art, and currently works as the director for the Reinberger Gallery at The Cleveland Institute of Art. Her work will also be included at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Ohio and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Missouri this year.

Vivid Wild Things opens for Preview on Thursday, July 15 from 5:30-7:30pm and opens to the public on Friday July 16 from 5:00-8:00pm.

It will be on view until September 3, 2021 and open during HEDGE Gallery’s normal business hours or by appointment. An Artist Talk Event date will be announced.