Nick Aumiller

About the Artist

Nick Aumiller has a  B.A. in printmaking and painting from UMBC in 1974. After a stint in the Baltimore Mural Program, He got a  M.F.A. from the MICA Hoffberger School of Painting in 1980. Still unfinished with his education he got a teaching certificate for art education from the College of Notre Dame of Maryland.   He has taught art at every age level, is presently drawing & painting full time, and doing the regular Baltimore Artist-type stuff.

Artist's Statement

STATEMENT – 2014  I conceive in my pictures a synchronous bottom of a slot. The bottom may function like a mirroring body of water, a reflecting surface, and as a musically sounding string.  The other side of the slot is the sky; open sky without limits or controls. As another string its vibrations set a time of day. Building-like structures and forms make crystalline sides to this slot. They often reflect faceted color and flash with mood.         Light funneling down the box-like slot informs these moods with temperatures. At-home citizens, street fixtures, and objects add not only nostalgic notes. But these bumper-like elements appear as blurs or as massive points; monuments to themselves, or. function like furniture in a house.   The atmosphere of time moves through this open-ended box like a free streaming fluid. In this flow individuals may glimpse their times, circumstances, others, and chances.  And in these unspecific places and impressions lie the cherished or casually forgotten moments to which I presently direct my process. Additional:  A picture is developed according to its own inherent logic. In the process of making the picture, each step proceeds in a progression of ‘A’ thus ‘B’ then ‘C’. Although this ‘game of moves’ is often tickled or diverted in an organic manner. Lately there often appears the memento mori – as a sum total of tone. This element of my pictures now is a reminder to myself of death. I am mindful that my father’s last pictures included: A black ‘hole’ seen through a gatehouse & a black void deep in the wall of a mill.