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Paulette smiley as she speaks about her Red Bead series, which is sitting in front of her as she sits in her living room surrounded by her paintings, sculptures and collections.

Paulette Harp-Nicholson

The fall exhibition poster, for Paint. Paper. Sculpture. The black background frames out one of Paulette's Paper cutting showing mirror and reflection of a tree and praying mantis.

Paint. Paper. Sculpture. August 2023 Poster

Paulette Harp-Nicholson

Aug 12, 2023 - Mar 25, 2024

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Oil Painting featuring a garden scene with stylized flowers in pink, blue, purple, and orangish yellow reach the sky, while stones, worms, and roots interweave below. A mix of color blending is prominent in this whimsical creation.

Roots and Flowers

Praying Mantis sitting at the bottom of a tree that is mirrored and reflected into four sections. Foreground objects are cut out of a white piece of paper which contrasts with the black background.

Paper Works

Depicts a vibrant scene with a head in the sky, roots in soil and water, falling rain, and a cloud-haloed bloom. Elements like grass, stones, and pink worms are nestled in the soil, using primarily primary colors with minimal mixing technique.

This oil painting depicts a tree that stands unwaveringly rooted amidst the lush greenery below, providing a framework for the central focus which is a squirrel, an oak leaf, and an acorn, all symbolic for the heart of squirreldom. Above, a stylized sun takes its place within the nearly bare branches of the ancient oak with very little yellow and orange leaves.

Squirrel World

Paper cutting depicts Jack trading the family ox for magic beans, Jack climbing the beanstalk, and Jack reaching the top to find the giant, the goose and the golden egg. This paper cutting uses brown, tan, black, white, green and sky blue papers.

Jack and the Beanstalk

This tryptic painting depicts three Kansas scenes with bright blue sky white fluffy clouds and green grass. Each has its own perspective of an orange and red kite. First is from the perspective of the kite bearer, the second is the perspective of the kite, and the third form a birds eye view way above the kite and the human.

Kite from Three Perspectives

This painting depicts a southwestern night scene with a yellow diminishing sunset, a cresent moon and the start of the revealing of the night stars. Deeper into the painting reveals a night horse, with a star for an eye, the crescent moon for a jawbone and a light outline of galloping legs and a tail.

Night Horse

Portrait of a woman depicted as a jester with a jester hat and matching shirt with red and blue diamonds, gold bells, and a matching miniature jester head.

Jester - Self Portrait

All five paintings have a depiction of a small red bead, first red bead is depicted within the mesa corn field, then with five horses, then with the changing woman, the night mountain, and finally the peaceful southwestern scene. Each painting has a zuni sun symbol within.

Red Bead Series

Meadow landscape with pink and orange flowers, a bright blue sky, and three hidden objects.

Prairie Spirits

Oil painting depicting a symbolic transformation scene from 'The Wizard of Oz.' In the foreground, a lifeless scarecrow undergoes stages of metamorphosis, transitioning into a crow. The sequence progresses from a reddish-brown scarecrow to a translucent crow and finally to a fully realized black crow. The backdrop features a serene light blue sky and distant desert mountains, contributing to the scene's evocative atmosphere.

Scarecrow's Dream

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A collage of several portrait photographs of a man with a light skin tone and gray hair. In the black-and-white photo on the left, he is standing by a table with a sculpture of a man on a horse and a sculpture of an eagle. In the two color photographs on the right, he is standing near a totem pole and a bike outside of a house.

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