Nick Lamia is an artist from California who lives and works in New York City. Lamia responds to the natural process of mapping through abstract painting, using color and line to capture the different intersections of plane and surface. By utilizing a range of hues, the artist captures depth and movement while reiterating the placid, planar nature of both boundary and line.

Lamia leaves much of his work untitled so that the tactile and prismatic impressions of each painting can become a pure aesthetic experience based upon the interpretation of color, line, dimension and form. The artist sometimes reaches beyond the limits of the painted surface in mixed-media installations, the most recent of which, titled Fate Shifter (2011), appeared at the Triangle Presents Pop-Up Space in Brooklyn. This site-specific piece was comprised primarily of wood strips of different length, texture and color that extended from abstract paintings hung on juxtaposing walls. The installation brought the exhibition space together in a single, unified structural experience of point vis-à-vis counterpoint.

Lamia has received numerous awards for his work, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003 and a Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Fellowship as well as a MacDowell Colony Residency both in 2009. The artist participated in the Bronx Museum’s AIM Program in 2010 and the Winter Workshop Residency at Wave Hill in 2012. His paintings appear in Linear Thinking at Seton Hall University in 2012 and at Boston University in 2013 as part of a group show titled Simultaneity.
In 2014 the Jason McCoy Gallery, located in Midtown Manhattan, hosted a remarkable solo show of Nick Lamia’s newest paintings titled Symmetry Breaking, that was on view from September 10 to October 24, 2014. In the Spring of 2015, Lamia’s paintings appeared again at the Jason McCoy Gallery as part of the group show In Situ.