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THE PAINTINGS REVEALED BOLD, ADVENTUROUS, AND SPIRITED SPONTANEOUS USE OF COLOR, SHAPE, AND LINE.
THERE WERE NO LABORIOUS ATTEMPTS AT TECHNIQUE OR TRADITIONAL IMAGERY.
IT WAS OBVIOUS THAT HE HAD ASSESSED THE MAELSTROM AND LEGACY OF CONTEMPORARY ART,
LEAPING HEADLONG INTO A PROLIFIC PRODUCTIVITY. 8/95 

                                     -RALPH WHITE 1921-2004
                                                PROFESSOR EMERITUS UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, AUSTIN


In short, the paintings of Jack Nichols are icons of energy - the energy of the man himself, and by inference,
the pervasive energy of the universe.
Early on, Nichols - by nature bent, not by some cool rationality, found himself in the crossroads and gale of abstract expressionism.
He sensed a resonance with the works of Pollock to Franz Kline, and others of the New York School
and was moved to find ways to give visual form to his own aesthetic experience.
The result, to date, has been rich and various - an extensive number of small and large paintings,
mostly in acrylic of arresting quality. How to characterize these is no simple task. Still,
there are some things this writer can risk saying about them:
They reflect the freedom of the autodidact;
They document the direction of post-modern art;
They exist as statements of a gifted man finding his ways to exude the energy of his personal quest…
and they are beautiful records of that quest.   2-22-2004  

                                 -Donald L. Weismann 1914-2007 
                                             Past Member, National Council For The Arts
                                  (Appointment by President Johnson)
  

Now after thirty-two years as a contemporary artist, original works only hang in New York,
London, Rome, Los Angeles, Washington DC, Houston, South Hamptons, Canada, Denver, Mexico City,
Taos, NM, and various collections including Dr. Paul Greengard (2000 Nobel Prize winner in Medicine),
to Ron Brownstein, Dan Balz, Stanley Hirsch , and Ron Rettner collections
in Washington DC & New York.

Since moving to Taos, New Mexico (2007), it has been a non-stop experience and experiment of channeling the energies
of nature and sometimes the super-nature. Like a collaboration of the raw and powerful elements (spirits)
that make up the history of this high-altitude location. 
"The second highest, and longest continuous living location in the world, second only to Tibet"

To the best of my knowledge, neither Pollock, DeKooning, Rothko, or any artist of the New York School
ever painted using my / these techniques.   As the methods I've developed over the last thirty two years, did not exist when they were alive. 
 
So... the closer you look the better.
The paintings are not a picture of  a thing, they are the thing its self, not cropped,
left to right, top to bottom, deckled edges, one hundred percent of the image is what you see. 
(the same with the canvases) 

                              Art is either plagiarism or revolution...
                                  -Paul Gauguin
                              French Post-Impressionist (1848 - 1903)