Original modern art · Richmond, Virginia
Start with
a structure.
Then shift.
Watercolor, ink and layered geometry by Nikki Galapon, an architectural designer turned artist. Each piece is built on a system, then moved until it finds its balance.
No. 01 Inked Orbs I
No. 02 Indigo Ovals I
— The process
- 01The grain of a wood panel
- 02Notes on a sheet of music
- 03Words
- 04Numbers
- 05Shapes
- 06A pattern or geometry
“I take what I’ve been given and make it work. I continue the process of shifting the composition until it becomes visually balanced. The process is the art to me, because there is no end…”
Nikki Galapon, artist statement
— Selected works
Transparency, layer by layer.
A rotating edit from the studio. Each work below is available as a print.
Museum IPrint
Museum IIPrint
— From the archive
Watercolor, ink, collage and paint. The archive is always growing, because the process has no end.
Explore every series— Series index
Systems she keeps returning to.
- 01 Sheet Music
- 02 Map Art I-IV
- 03 Antique Ledger I-V
- 04 Architectural Sketches I - X
- 05 Abstract
- 06 Geometric and Patterns I - X
- 07 Inked Orbs I – VI
- 08 Balancing I – IV
- 09 Rooftops and Houses I – XII
- 10 Spectrum I – II
- 11 Universal
Shown framed · scale is illustrative
— Featured print
Daily Review
Layered sheets of vintage paper—book pages, sheet music, printed advertisements, and fragments of text—form the foundation of this 2015 collage, their faded inks and warm tones creating a dense field of language and notation. Across them, bold black lines, white arcs, and strips of red, brown, and gray cut through the surface, while large ovals and geometric planes interrupt and reframe the underlying material. The result is a lively visual balance in which fragments of the past remain partially visible yet are continually shifted and held in place by the newer geometry. Signed 2015.
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