The Three Hands Of God
A triptych spanning 12 years and a few different eras of my painting and stylistic evolution, this trio of paintings addresses the tense...
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nickbaxtertattoos
- May 7, 2017
- 1 min
Blood Rituals: Redux
Photoshoots for last year’s Blood Rituals series of still life paintings yielded several interesting macros which did not fit the...
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nickbaxtertattoos
- Dec 26, 2016
- 7 min
Blood Rituals Review, Part 2
After completing the review of my recent gallery show that I mentioned in my last blog post, staff writer at tattoodo.com Ross Howerton...
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nickbaxtertattoos
- Dec 26, 2015
- 1 min
Soul
The inspiration for this painting came largely from oysters and their far more notorious contents: pearls. The pearl has been a symbol of...
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nickbaxtertattoos
- Apr 26, 2015
- 1 min
Singularity
Here’s the recently completed work mentioned in my last blog post. Mankind’s increasingly intimate yet perilous relationship with...
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nickbaxtertattoos
- Jul 27, 2013
- 4 min
What Is Art? (Part 1.5): An Integral Approach
In a delightful twist of fate last week, an email appeared on my computer screen (via my subscription to the Core Integral newsletter)...
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nickbaxtertattoos
- Jul 13, 2013
- 3 min
What Is Art? (Part 1): Self Inquiry
“If a tree falls and no one hears it, does it make a sound?” This is the kind of existential crisis I circumnavigate when considering...
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nickbaxtertattoos
- Apr 24, 2013
- 3 min
Art From The Edge
My friend Addie over at Fuck Yeah Mad Pride clued me in to a fascinating blog featuring the art of people considered to be in extreme...
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nickbaxtertattoos
- Apr 5, 2013
- 2 min
Endgame IV
On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill began contaminating the Gulf of Mexico, and resisted containment for an agonizing and...
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nickbaxtertattoos
- Feb 2, 2013
- 1 min
New Vessels
Lately I’ve been brainstorming and refining a new artistic vision, taking the opportunity of any downtime between large surgery paintings...
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nickbaxtertattoos
- Nov 15, 2012
- 3 min
In Review: Union of Art and Sport
The Rules of Basketball: Works by Paul Pfeiffer and James Naismith’s “Original Rules of Basket Ball” September 16 – January 13, 2013...
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nickbaxtertattoos
- Oct 1, 2012
- 2 min
Influences 2
Light Shines Through was a painting I completed in 2010 for a group exhibition memorializing artist and tattooer Monica Henk, whose life...
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nickbaxtertattoos
- Jul 28, 2012
- 1 min
The Inquisition
Painting #11 from The Apostasy series, finished a few weeks ago: I wrote about some of the aesthetic decisions made during the painting...
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