As he puts it; Nick is a “British artist working with contributed technological artefacts and materials”, it sums up the media but there is so much more.
I first found Gentry’s work when I was staying at the Hotel Zetta in The City. deFor the nerdiest of reason, the floppy disks are what attracted me to it. Once I got past the stunned amazement I had with is work I really looked deeper into it to see, what it was that really attracted me to it. At first, it was the materials, then it was the modelesque figures rendered with a technique that makes me go … “How’d they do that?” Finally looking at his most recent pieces, I see that all of those elements in addition to the deconstructed and reconstructed imagery are what appeals to me most.
You can see more of Nicks at his personal site nickgentry.com
If you are lucky enough to find yourself in Switzerland in June you can check him out yourself at:
Robert Fontaine Gallery, Scope Basel, art fair
Clarahuus, Webergasse 34, 4058 Basel, Switzerland
14th June – 19th June
Robert Fontaine Gallery
Or in New York at:
C24 Gallery, solo exhibition
560 West 24th Street, New York, NY 10011, USA
12th July – 12th August 2016
C24 Gallery