NICHOLAS SITTER

EDUCATION

Savannah College of Art and Design, BFA Cum Laude, 2000

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Kaviar and Kind (Roseark) Gallery, West Hollywood, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

bG Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA

Glass Garage Gallery, West Hollywood, CA

Thinkspace Projects, “The Fresh Series: Session Seven” Curated by Cannibal

Flower, Culver City, Los Angeles, CA (Three Artist Feature)

Descanso Gardens Juried Community Show “Searching for Serenity”, Stuart

Haaga Gallery, Descanso Gardens, La Cañada Flintridge, CA

“Cannibal Flower Group Show” Lucky Cat Labs, Downtown Los Angeles, CA

“Art Share L.A.’s Summer Salon 2025” Arts District, Los Angeles, CA

“Rising Stars” solo feature, Hive Gallery, Downtown Los Angeles, CA

“Of The Sky: A Celestial Show” Raven’s Gallery, Echo Park, Los Angeles, CA

“Super Duper” curated by Cannibal Flower, Black Market Gallery, West Los

Angeles, CA

“300 and under” The Hive Gallery, Downtown Los Angeles, CA

“Echo Park Rising: Iron and Steam” Raven’s Gallery, Echo Park, Los Angeles, CA

“Timeisms” Echo Park Art Gallery, Echo Park, Los Angeles, CA

“Nature Show” Gallery 787, Pasadena, CA 

“Bloom” Untitled Gallery, Ontario, CA 

“Hive 20th Anniversary Show” The Hive Gallery, Downtown Los Angeles, CA

“Flower Power” Rod Briggs Gallery, Long Beach Creative Group, Long Beach, CA

“Ultrahive 3” Nano Gallery, Osaka, Japan, Design Festa Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

FM Oakland, Oakland, CA

The Hive Gallery, Downtown Los Angeles, 

“White Rabbit” Raven’s Gallery, Echo Park, Los Angeles, CA

“Echo in the Garden” Echo Park Art Gallery, Echo Park, Los Angeles, CA 

“From the Ashes” Raven’s Gallery, Echo Park, Los Angeles, CA

“Hive Tarot XVI” The Hive Gallery, Downtown Los Angeles, CA

“Rising Stars” The Hive Gallery, Downtown Los Angeles, CA

“Brand 52: National Juried Exhibition of Works on Paper”, Brand Library and

Art Center, Glendale, CA, Winner: Jane Friend Award

“Defining Our Legacies, Ancestor to Ancestor” Avenue 50 Studio, Highland Park, Los Angeles, CA

TKO Art, Fall ’24 Brewery Artist Lofts Artwalk, Los Angeles, CA

PRIVATE COMMISSIONS

Chess and Burman Salon Studio 14
Josh Brolin
Steve Tyler
Troy Polamalu

The Floriculture concept started as an attempt to take the guerrilla attitude of street art and contrast it with a mature technique and a lyrical subject. This tension between the renegade and the poetic, between the destructive and the creative, between graffiti and grace, is what I find exciting about public art and about urban living.

The subtext of these pieces is "Nature as Metaphor." I thought about urban development "beautification projects" that focused on planting greenery and flowers in intensely developed areas. As I researched these floral forms, I realized that the introduction of floral elements was not an escapist attempt to suburbanize an urban space, as I learned just how "human" floral plants are. They can be ugly or attractive depending on who's looking at them. They have personalities, intuitions, and behavioral patterns, which can be ugly or attractive, too. They can be finicky or indiscriminate regarding where they live. They can be confrontational or harmonious with their neighbors. They can make love to themselves or with others. They are creative, innovative, and indifferent. They are committed as well as exclusionary. They can be open and withdrawn. Deadly and serene. Vain and introverted. They can break through concrete or wither to the touch.

Further, I wanted to look at the concept of what makes art art, by examining the history of floral depictions. Floral still-lifes have a long tradition in canonical art. They bring the outdoors inside. They capture, control, and conquer nature and natural rhythms of decay. Street art challenges such cultural institutional biases by bringing outside what is normally kept inside. The Floriculture series further breaks down the barriers between outside and inside by throwing a gilt frame over portions of the florals. The silent question the frames pose is, "Why does throwing a frame over something make it art and not graffiti?"

Floriculture thus attempts to function as metaphor for the gorgeous riot of contradictions that is urban living and urban art.