2025 Artist Residents-Session 2

Nick Twiner

Artist Bio:  As an Atlanta-born and -based artist, my work transforms urban infrastructure into nuanced visual commentaries through a distinctive approach to landscape painting. Working primarily in gouache and watercolor, I create impressionistic views of Atlanta's built environment, finding unexpected beauty and meaning in spaces often overlooked or dismissed as merely functional.

My artistic practice has been shaped by my lifelong relationship with Atlanta's evolving landscape. I've witnessed the city's ongoing transformation through both personal experience and professional engagement.

Today, my work deliberately presents urban infrastructure with the same reverent care typically reserved for natural landscapes. There's an intentional tension in my approach—rendering concrete overpasses, highways, and interchanges with the aesthetic attention one might use for mountains or clouds. This juxtaposition highlights the absurdity of our relationship with infrastructure that simultaneously connects and divides us, yet remains a source of nostalgic pride for many Atlantans.

While I lack formal art school training, my approach has developed organically through dedicated practice and a deep engagement with Atlanta's specific urban context. This has allowed me to develop a distinctive visual language that transforms the mundane aspects of city infrastructure into compositions that reveal striking formal qualities and invite deeper consideration of urban space.