{"id":8544,"date":"2020-01-21T17:45:35","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T22:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=8544"},"modified":"2025-02-09T18:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T23:52:11","slug":"christina-nicodema-at-hollis-taggart-contemporary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/21\/christina-nicodema-at-hollis-taggart-contemporary\/","title":{"rendered":"Christina Nicodema at Hollis Taggart Contemporary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s hard to look away from New York artist Christina Nicodema\u2019s vividly colored paintings, packed with brightly plumed birds, a dramatic mandrill baring its teeth and piles of edibles designed to entice.\u00a0 Like a contemporary interpretation of traditional Dutch genre painting, the images bring together plants and creatures from different environments in a celebration of excess, but Nicodema\u2019s addition of porcelain, a painted egg and a cake dangerously ablaze with candles hints at the costs of luxury and human desires.\u00a0 (On view at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollistaggart.com\/exhibitions\/92-of-folly-fortune-glory-ruin-william-buchina-and-christina-nicodema\/\">Hollis Taggart Contemporary<\/a> through Feb 22<sup>nd<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8545\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8545\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/21\/christina-nicodema-at-hollis-taggart-contemporary\/christina_nicodema\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8545\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8545\" src=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/christina_nicodema.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/christina_nicodema.jpg 1561w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/christina_nicodema-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/christina_nicodema-397x400.jpg 397w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8545\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christina Nicodema, detail from The Tower of Babel, Mandrill, oil and archival ink on canvas, 55 x 55 inches, 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s hard to look away from New York artist Christina Nicodema\u2019s vividly colored paintings, packed with brightly plumed birds, a dramatic mandrill baring its teeth and piles of edibles designed to entice.\u00a0 Like a contemporary interpretation of traditional Dutch genre painting, the images bring together plants and creatures from different environments in a celebration of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/21\/christina-nicodema-at-hollis-taggart-contemporary\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Christina Nicodema at Hollis Taggart Contemporary&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,27,4],"tags":[8,117,8712,9,13,8713,1339,33,1481,16],"class_list":["post-8544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-features-commissions","category-hottest-show","tag-art","tag-chelsea","tag-christina-nicodema","tag-contemporary","tag-gallery","tag-hollis-taggart","tag-nature","tag-painting","tag-still-life","tag-tour"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-2dO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8544"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11314,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8544\/revisions\/11314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}