Nicolas Shake was born in Northridge, California. Shake received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2008 and an MFA from Claremont Graduate University in 2011. Shake is a multimedia artist working in painting, photography, and sculpture, with a focus on reframing the everyday human-made detritus that he encounters in the desert on the outskirts of Los Angeles. The items shake engages with could easily be categorized as rhopography, but it’s the unimportance that gives these objects the ability to be reassigned a new aesthetic value, transforming the rubbish into something unexpected by capturing its uncanny power which could convey peculiar beauty. Shake resides and works in Los Angeles, California.
