Nicole Havekost -- Pert

Nicole Havekost
Pert, 2023
Industrial felt, cotton thread, beeswax, soft and oil pastels, wood, sewing hardware
9 x 7 x 2 1/2 in.

Based in Rochester, Minnesota, Havekost’s practice centers on the female body whose forms she extracts, magnifies, abstracts, and multiplies. Imbued with raw physicality, Havekost's sculptures construct the shared experience of female corporeality with tender, laborious gestures. In a recent interview, Havekost says: “I am a daughter, wife, mother. I have felt misunderstood and unrecognized. My femininity has often been a mystery to even me. Putting the focus on the female allowed me to explore contradictions in my own experiences that often felt universal to the women I shared them with.”

Nicole Havekost lives and works in Rochester, Minnesota. She earned a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from the University of New Mexico. She has exhibited extensively throughout the United States including recent solo and two-person exhibitions at the Rochester Art Center, Minnesota (2023), South Bend Museum of Art (2023), Catherine F. Murphy Gallery, St. Catherines’s University (2023) ,Minneapolis Institute of Art (2021) and Morris Graves Museum of Art in California (2019).