Nick Weber: Night Turns | Harper's Apartment
Dear Nick,
Sometimes it takes me a long time to see what’s right in front of my eyes. When we met, over ten years ago, I was too engrossed in books to pay much attention to your art. I hadn’t begun to think about the artworld yet, and more importantly you already had a champion in our mutual friend, the late John McWhinnie.
Unlike me, John had no problem seeing what was in front of him. In your case, as an artist, it was a rare confluence of technical mastery and emotional risk. This was never more clear than in your porn series, where explicit sex acts are rendered with detailed finesse. A Nike symbol on the sole of the gentleman’s foot; his lover with a single white sock, dirtied at the heel as if she’d walked around a barn or an unswept Chinatown loft. Caravaggio meets Brazzers in the nascent era of cheap high-speed porn. Controversial at the time, tinged with nostalgia now.
Your night scenes, Nick. How did I miss those for so many years? Such juggernauts of shade, reflection, and shared memory. Little gems of dusky ethereal rhapsody. Maybe it just wasn’t the right time until now. An art dealer is a bit like a baseball coach: you need to know who to put in the game at any moment, when to go to the pen, when to take a pitch, and when to give the green light. Luckily for me you were ready when I called your number. You were always ready.
Harper
Exhibitions
- January 14, 2021 - February 13, 2021
Eliot Greenwald: Takin’ the Riverboat Out on Snake Lake - January 13, 2021 - February 13, 2021
Spencer Lewis: Six Jutes (2) - December 9, 2020 - January 9, 2021
Spencer Lewis: Six Jutes (1) - December 10, 2020 - January 9, 2021
12 Artists - October 31, 2020 - December 6, 2020
Kevin Teare: L’Ecole Horizontale - October 28, 2020 - December 5, 2020
Kevin McNamee-Tweed: Moon Over Math Town - October 10, 2020 - November 22, 2020
Michelangelo Lovelace: Brick City - September 26, 2020 - October 26, 2020
Angel Otero: Broken Record - September 24, 2020 - October 24, 2020
Claire Colette: Fire, Rain, Heat, Night - August 28, 2020 - September 28, 2020
Enoc Perez: The Fires - August 15, 2020 - September 17, 2020
Alejandro Cardenas: AEAEA - July 25, 2020 - August 27, 2020
Spencer Lewis: Literacy Devolves Into Violence - see all exhibitions