NICHOLAS BLEECKER
Lecturer

Nick Bleecker received Bachelor of Arts degrees in Art History and Sculpture, and his Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1995. He teaches a mixed media course that focuses on the carving of wood and stone.He has numerous large scale sculptures, most of carved stone, installed throughout the state of Hawaii.

"The choice of stone as my principle medium puts limitations on the sculpture's possible forms. The shape of the raw material, it's veining and physical properties mandate consideration as do the technical problems and time required to work the stone. These innate qualities can also strengthen the aesthetics, illustrate process, and make many varied and overlapping references.

Stone is not static. The time scale can be geologic but the immense energies of gravity, compression and heat and the dramatic movements of folding and shearing that go on within the earth continually can be evident in it. It asks us to take a much longer view of movement and time and our relativity."