1962
Described by London’s Victoria & Albert museum as “forensic investigation as an art form”, Nick Veasey’s stunningly detailed x-rays reveal how his subjects are designed and made – whether by man or by nature.
EXHIBITIONS
2017
Art Market & Design Hamptons, Evan Lurie Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
Art Palm Beach, Evan Lurie Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL
Art San Francisco, Evan Lurie Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Art Boca, Evan Lurie Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
Palm Beach Art & Antique Show, Evan Lurie Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL
Naples Art & Antique Show, Evan Lurie Gallery, Naples, FL
2016
Art Boca, Evan Lurie Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
Art Hamptons, Evan Lurie Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
Art Market & Design Hamptons, Evan Lurie Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
Art Aspen, Evan Lurie Gallery, Aspen, CO
Art Palm Beach, Evan Lurie Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL
Art San Francisco, Evan Lurie Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Art Palm Springs, Evan Lurie Gallery, Palm Springs, FL
SCOPE MIAMI, Evan Lurie Gallery, Miami, FL
2015
M.A.D. Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
Axiom Contemporary, Santa Monica, CA
Art Angels, Los Angeles, CA
Bluerider Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
“Let There Be Art”, Emilio Castelar, Mexico City, Mexico
Art Hamptons, Evan Lurie Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
Art Market & Design Hamptons, Evan Lurie Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
Art Aspen, Evan Lurie Gallery, Aspen, CO
Art Palm Beach, Evan Lurie Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL
Art San Francisco, Evan Lurie Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Art Palm Springs, Evan Lurie Gallery, Palm Springs, FL
SCOPE MIAMI, Evan Lurie Gallery, Miami, FL
2014
Art Hamptons, Evan Lurie Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
Art Market & Design Hamptons, Evan Lurie Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
Art Aspen, Evan Lurie Gallery, Aspen, CO
Art Palm Beach, Evan Lurie Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL
Art San Francisco, Evan Lurie Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Art Palm Springs, Evan Lurie Gallery, Palm Springs, FL
SCOPE MIAMI, Evan Lurie Gallery, Miami, FL
Traffic Jam Galleries, NSW, Australia
NOVA Gallery, Makati City, Philippines
‘Masters of Illusion’, bG Gallery at Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
‘Art & Photography of the Spectacular’, bG Gallery,Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
Guns n Roses, Nick Veasey X-ray Galerie Frangulyan, Paris, France
2013
Bluerider Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Opiom Gallery, Opio, France
Linda Matney Gallery, Williamsburg, VA
Galerie Frangulyan, Paris, France
2012
Richard Goodall Gallery, Manchester, UK
Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla CA
Brucie Collections, Kiev, Ukraine
Gregg Shienbaum Fine Art Gallery, Miami, FL
2011
Pobeda Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Split Photo Gallery, Croatia
Glass Garage Fine Art Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
Atelier Jungwirth, Graz, Austria
2010
‘British Photography’ V&A Museum, London, UK
Gallerie LeRoyer, Montreal, Canada
Dubinsky Fine Arts, Zurich, Switzerland
21 Galleries, Berlin, Germany
Klaudia Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Galerie Tagomago, Barcelona, Spain
Young Gallery Photo, La Galerie Pierre Mahaux, Megeve, France
2009
Young Gallery Photo, Knokke, Belgium
Maddox Arts, London, UK
Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK
Deutsches Röntgen-Museum, Remscheid, Germany
Richard Goodall Gallery, Manchester, UK
Young Gallery Photo, Brussels, Belgium
2008
‘XFUNS Gala 08 X = Secret’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan
‘The Really Naked Celebrity Exhibition’,National Osteoporosis Society,Redchurch St., London, UK
David Gallery, Culver City, CA
‘See Through The World Around You’, Hunterian Gallery, Royal College of Surgeons, London, UK
Logan Airport, Boston, MA, USA
2007
Parker Technologies, Cleveland, OH
2003
Deutsche Poste, Bonn, Germany
PUBLICATION
A Decade in X-ray
X-ray – See Through The World Around You
X-Treme X-ray in association with The Science Museum
COLLECTIONS
Michael Bay, Director/ Producer
EUROPE, Deutsche Post, Bonn, Germany
Deutches Roentgen Museum, Remscheid, Germany
Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden, Germany
Science and Technology Museum, Milan, Italy
UK Investec, London, UK
Natural History Museum, Tring, UK
National Media Museum, Yorkshire, UK
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
WORLDWIDE, AMOREPACIFIC Museum of Art, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
Crossfit, San Diego, CA, USA
Fort Wayne Museum of Art
Fort Wayne, IN, USA
MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
Musée de Design et D’Arts Appliqués Contemporains (MUDAC), Lausanne, Switzerland
Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
Parker Technologies, Cleveland, OH
Seabury Group, New York, NY
The Museum at FIT, New York, NY
A man with x-ray vision, Nick Veasey creates art that shows what it is really like inside.
Nick’s work with radiographic imaging equipment takes the x-ray to another level. Everyday objects are transformed from the banal to the beguiling and the layers and make-up of natural items are shown in fantastic detail.
These works are a classic example of the fusion between art and science. The results transcend classification as photographs, having the gravitas to motivate science institutions and art galleries to acquire the artworks. The Victoria and Albert Museum in London have recently added his work to the British National Collection of Photography. Nick regularly exhibits at fine art galleries the world over. The ethereal and fascinating works have collected a host of International awards.
In today’s world that is obsessed with ‘image’, superficiality and artifice, Veasey counters such insubstantial diversions by delving inside and discovering what things are really made of. Metaphors for the images are many and varied. Their context is very relevant in today’s society with the prevalence of surveillance and the use of x-ray technology for security.
The artist’s work can be seen as a project that harnesses and exploits modern technology to advance the boundaries of perception and of art. But what sets him apart from other artists is not only the technique. Instead of creating or transforming things, he is exposing something that always existed, objects we think we know but we don’t. Not from the inside out.
Creating art with radiation is complex and dangerous but the results continually inspire Nick to keep experimenting.
The subjects of his attention are manifold. Flora and fauna, DJ Decks, ordinary objects such as shoes, a typewriter and even a classic Morris Mini. Mainly, whatever surrounds us and is tangible. Although working with the manifest, he achieves to uncover the invisible. Veasey’s x-rays penetrate the surface and take us on a journey into a world otherwise hidden and unseen. The inner life of objects and organisms is revealed, the surface replaced with transparency, the inside becomes the outside – what is left is the form the aesthetics of form the inner beauty.
The work is a dazzling balance of extremes, using lethal radiation to produce results of great lyricism and grace. Veasey’s x-rays penetrate solid matter to render it ghostly and gentle, giving the viewers that precious feeling that they have somehow seen reality afresh with an aspect to life that they have never before experienced.
An artist that pushes boundaries in pursuit of his calling.
