NANCY TOBIN | SPECIAL PROJECTS | POOL

High Dive at the Art Brut Inn

The Tobins have checked into the Art Brut Inn and are having a visual debate about priorities in front of everyone. There’s no need to put that glass against the wall to listen in.

Opposing forces face off poolside. It’s raw. It’s real. The self fights itself in a brawl that cuts through walls and reaches into the psychological landscape where coping mechanisms struggle to survive. One lifts, the other destroys—Mother Mary watches from the grotto, waiting to be tapped in.

Who will claim the Cup of Control in the battle against addictions and self-defeating behavior?

Sit ringside at this gritty assemblage of highbrow concepts and lowbrow techniques, and cheer for your favorite character flaw.

ABOUT

Nancy Tobin is a northern California artist whose innovative experiments explore themes of the body concerning place, survival, and self-reliance. Her practice includes solo gallery installations, guerrilla interventions, and site-specific land art.

2012 MFA Candidate, San Francisco Art Institute

1997 Bachelor of Arts, Cum Laude, Cal Poly Humboldt, Arcata, CA

Her work has been reviewed by Gabrielle Gopinath in Sculpture Magazine. She recently held the Inaugural exhibition of the College of the Redwoods' new Creative Arts Complex in Eureka, CA.

2024 Spring Break Art Show Los Angeles (Waitlisted)

Her 2022 solo installation Journey to the Center of the Milks at Humboldt Arts Council’s Morris Graves Museum was nominated “Best Art Event in Humboldt” by the North Coast Journal. She was awarded the HAC Faben Artist Grant.

In 2022, Tobin was named Artist of the Year by the Humboldt Arts Council’s Palette Magazine. 

2021 Afterlight Online, Field Projects, NY

2021 Group Show 5, Online Exhibition, Shrine, NY

More info: nancy-tobin.com

@nancy_._tobin