Tupperware trees spy for child eyes, 36″ x 24″, Acrylic and Oil on Wood Panel, 2025
Heaps, sheets, veils, eyes, hello? Hello! Where are you drifting? (with friendship photo), 4.8′ x 3.7′, Acrylic and Oil on Wood Panel, Digital inkjet print on enchanced matte, 2025
Heaps, sheets, veils, eyes, hello? Hello! Where are you drifting?, 24″ x 18″, Acrylic and Oil on Wood Panel, 2025
Heaps, sheets, veils, eyes, hello? Hello! Where are you drifting?, Detail
Pair of Dice Paradise, 6′ x 4′, Acrylic and Oil on Canvas, 2025
Pair of Dice Paradise, Detail
Paddock for an ambling plush lush (with hungry arch), 6′ x 4′, Acrylic and Oil on Canvas, Digital inkjet print on art peel, 7.5’ x 6’ (5’ x 3.3’ painting only), 2025
Paddock for an ambling plush lush (with hungry arch), Detail
Stiff liquid, flat turf fantasia, Digital inkjet print on matte peel, 7.3’ x 8.3’, 2025
Myopic Verge, Acrylic and Oil on Wood Panel, 30” x 36”, 2025
Shadow math sleepwalkers woomble woomble in the night, Digital inkjet print on enchanted matte, 5.2’ x 7.7’, 2025
Murk Lurk Marionettes, Acrylic and Oil on Canvas, 6’ x 4’, 2025
Installation Views of “Waking dream wanderers: where are you drifting?” at TIAN Contemporain, Jan. 17- Feb. 21, 2026, Photos by Jean-Michael Seminaro
Scene Trippers, Dream Clippers, What do you feel? What do you make real?
Waking dream wanderers: where are you drifting?
Using visual strategies of camouflage, masquerade and collage, I conceptually and materially
explore the (im)possibility of dissolving into place. By confusing binary separations between
subject–backdrop and figuration–abstraction, the traditional distinctions between the human and
the natural begin to erode in my work. Assuming the qualities of stage props, these fictional
body-places become projection screens for our desires and fears about how to categorize
ourselves in relation to nature, a vision often based in Romantic idealism. Plantlife becomes
fashionable headdress, while consuming the figure’s identity. Or an animalian body takes on the
texture of the landscape it finds itself within. Images of eyes collapse into pattern on second
glance, becoming a different shape for each viewer.
Working across painting, photography and sculpture, I approach the figure and the landscape
from a place of image, of look: employing both as theatrical scaffolding on which our daydreams
can be hung. I aim to create works that simultaneously seduce and unsettle as a means of
investigating the swinging ambivalence between what is real and fictitious, human and natural,
known and unknown. As such, my figures often exist in a state of anxious suspension; caught
between two or more ways of being, they find themselves detained between dissolution and
becoming.
NICOLE CROZIER 