xoxo

While grieving his late friend, poet Alfred Tennyson penned this about love: “‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” In her debut solo exhibition xoxo, Nicole explored the joy and grief at the junction of love and loss and the tragic obstinance required to avoid heartbreak indefinitely. Created between 2019-2023, the works in the exhibition serve as a visual journal, documenting the resettling of her romantic and familial love life before and in the wake of the pandemic and global unrest of 2020.