The First

Oil on canvas

Migration II

Oil on canvas

Farewell

Oil on canvas

Farewell Dance III

Oil on canvas

Nicoline Franziska

is a multi-disciplinary artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated from Parsons, The New School for Design in 2019 with a BFA in Fine Arts. She grew up between Munich, Toronto, and Virginia, and is fluent in English and German. Her primary focus is in oil painting and pastel drawing, with a growing interest in stop motion animation. Drawing from the tradition of storytelling as an act of sharing and passing down information, Franziska’s paintings investigate language. In our present world, information is transmitted instantly and constantly but rarely preserved outside of almost entirely intangible lines of codes dictating the functions of information. Franziska’s paintings and drawings are heavily process based and study constantly evolving relationships between biomorphic forms which dance, float, and intertwine in often macabre spaces as they search for home. A procession of figures often behaves like a series of characters in a theatrical performance. Varying personalities enter and exit the frame as they seek their sense of place. Her paintings establish a sense of permanence and tangibility. As her work is heavily influenced by ballet, jazz, and theater, each of which exists in time and relies on sensitive collaborations between dancers, instruments, and actors, her work not only embodies movement and conversation but also indicates a passing of time within the two-dimensional space.