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Kate Nichols: Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture SeriesPost an Event »
San Francisco Art Institute (Lecture Hall)
February 9 - February 9, 2016Info
San Francisco Art Institute800 Chestnut Street San Francisco, CA 94133 Google Map »
Kate Nichols, Figment 1, 2014. Silver nanoparticle paint on glass. Courtesy of the artist.
San Francisco–based painter Kate Nichols synthesizes nanoparticles to evoke colorful winged animals, grows artificial skin from microorganisms, and makes her own paints following 15th-century recipes. The long tradition of painters as material innovators inspired Nichols to become the first artist-in-residence in the Alivisatos Lab, a nanoscience laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2010, she was appointed a TED Fellow and was awarded a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship. Her artwork has been featured on the cover of the journal Nature and on the TED stage and is in the Leonardo Museum’s permanent collection. In 2015, Nichols was awarded the Richard Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship, an honor SFAI extends to one early to mid-career painter each year.