Carmel Nicoletti

Biography

As both a visual artist and dancer, Carmel Nicoletti has always been interested in movement and human gesture. In both areas she explores the breath that is the foundation of movement. She continues to explore new ways of expressing this throughout her work.

The relationship of color and fluid motion interests Nicoletti. She focuses on pathways that occur in motion and gesture. She uses materials that were once liquid, such as glass and metal.

The colors present in these materials have intrinsic qualities that evoke human response, often suggesting a place or experience. She shapes and combines these materials to emphasize particular elements of motion, such as rhythm, contraction, release, pulsation and flow, and puts them in architectural and sculptural frameworks.

Her academic concentrations are in the areas of design, color, art history, aesthetics and dance. She is especially interested in cross-disciplinary connections.

Her teaching style emphasizes the flow of one idea to another. She sees each student as having a personal path. Her job as an instructor is to help in the discovery of this pathway, leading to connections between percept and concept.

Education

• M.F.A., Syracuse University