Nick Hobbs, Comet (2025) graphite on paper, image: 5 x 7 in. (12.7 x 17.8 cm.) sheet: 9 x 12 in. (22.9 x 30.5 cm.)
Scroll is pleased to present Anywhere Fast, a solo presentation of new works by Nick Hobbs. This is the artist's first exhibition with the gallery.
Hobbs renders his subjects in graphite across heavy watercolor paper with restrained, grisaille palette and a steady hand. Densely layering strokes of pencil, Hobbs creates a velvety surface punctuated from some viewing angles by the metallic sheen distinct to graphite and rich in tonal depth and atmosphere. The hazy graphite surfaces, evoking not just visual space but a kind of perceptual slowness, hover between clarity and obscurity, the documented and the dreamt. Across different drawings, Hobbs connects dramatic juxtapositions of scale and subject, giving uncanny pairings the same material treatment and folding them into a shared visual universe.
Nick Hobbs (b. 1997, Shreveport, Louisiana) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He received his MFA from the University of Arkansas in 2023 and attended the Undergraduate Residency Program at the New York Academy of Art in 2018. Hobbs has presented solo exhibitions at Storage Gallery, New York and Turley Gallery, Hudson, and has exhibited with Kasmin Gallery, New York; My Pet Ram, New York; Huxley-Parlour, London; Main Projects, Richmond; Moosey, Norwich; and Weatherproof, Chicago. His work has been featured in ArtMaze Magazine, The Coastal Post, Friend of the Artist, and Booooooom.
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