Nichole Schappert grew up among the expansive farmlands and rolling hills of Iowa. She is a transdisciplinary artist and educator whose practice is informed by industrial sites, human connection to land & water, and time. Nichole challenges and confronts what [to her] it means to be feminine in male dominated environments.

Site specific and diagrammatic installations illustrate a meditation on the space, time and identity of locations. Probing the aesthetics of Minimalism, Nichole uses concrete, technology and form to juxtapose the cultural associations of male-dominate materials [concrete, steel, wood] to express her thoughts on her identity. Through repetition and the re-contextualization of found objects she examines the performative power of the female body through reproduction. Nichole’s process embraces imbalance, alienation and vulnerability.