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Artforum International, September, 2001 by Kuspit, Donald
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GRAHAM NICKSON
Graham Nickson follows the sun, from Australia to Florida to Italy, in pursuit of an untouched paradise--a space where the body is able to blissfully enjoy its own existence. The world he paints is pagan nature at its most charged, full of longing. Known for his use of intense, saturated, glowing color--color that seems to bring light to a boil--Nickson is primarily a painter of erotic landscape. In Inlet: Dark Water, 1981-97 the female bather in the center is a modem Venus. The sun plays off her body, accented by the decisive gesture of the towel with which she ...
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