What Remains in an Artist’s Life

Sculptor Walter Collier Nicolai is interested in how meaning in art is derived from human interaction with form and material, and how the relationships of form to other forms, to spaces, and to memory create a context for meaning. His installation, reminiscent of a lighthouse or of the tower sometimes found on a corner of a Victorian mansion, suggests an artist’s workspace. With paint-stained work clothes hanging on the open door and artists’ tools and unfinished artworks visible inside the small windowed room, the building within the gallery seems to ask the question “What is the meaning of an artist’s life?”