Born 1970, Montreal.
Currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
"Seeing David Nicholsons oil paintings in reproduction is like reading the Cliff Notes version of Shakespeare -- the themes are lurid enough to be entertaining, but without the extraordinary language the bawdiness and blood can be mistaken for pulp. In the flesh, Nicholson's theatrically realist pictures evoke comparisons with the deft technique and sensational subject matter of Delacroix, Gros and Gericault.
His subjects include full-length, 19th-century-style portraits of his bohemian friends as well as scenes of wild animals. Another series of paintings, which are clearly allegorical, depicts the butchering of a sheep in Morocco. Several portraits depict Nicholsons' former wife posed as a glossy harlot or a neo-goth fallen angel.
The Montreal-born Nicholson, who has no formal artistic training (and in fact is an amateur middleweight boxer), has exhibited his work in "Painting as Paradox" at Artists Space in New York, "Supereal" at the Marella Gallery in Milan, "Beautiful/Grotesque"at Riva Gallery and is
represented exclusively by Aeroplastics Contemporary in Brussels."
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