Let’s collaborate!
I am currently accepting commission work. You dream it up and I will create it for you. I can also paint a personalized window to your soul. To my dear artist friends, please reach out if you are interested in collaborating! For more information on collaborations and commission work or to inquire about available artwork click on the contact page or visit my instagram page or facebook page. For art programming please visit me at SatoriShift.
Artfully yours,
Nina
Just for Fun series. These brightly colored popping playful works are approximately 4” x 4” x 2” two-sided wrap-around encaustic painted wood panels. They are two paintings in one! They can be placed on a shelf, desk or coffee table. If placed on a coffee table, both sides of the painting can be viewed. If placed on a shelf or desk, they can be rotated to reveal a new painting.
These new works will be available at the Clawson Fest on Saturday 08/26/23 from 2:00-8:00pm.
These abstract works are an aesthetic response to both inner and outer nature through visual layers of perception.
Oil on canvas
40” x 32”
Oil on canvas
48” x 32”
Encaustic on panel
36” x 36”
Oil on Canvas
15" x 30"
2016
Oil on Canvas
15" x 30"
2016
Oil on Canvas
15" x 30"
2016
36" x 24"
Oil on Canvas
2016
Private collection
36" x 24"
Oil on Canvas
2016
Private collection
8" x 8"
Oil on Canvas
2016
Private collection
8" x 8"
Oil on Canvas
2016
Private collection
2012 Oil on Canvas 36" x 24"
2013 Oil on Canvas 30" x 40"
Private collection
2013 Oil on Canvas 24" x 23"
2013 Oil on Canvas 28" x 22"
2013 Oil on canvas, sand and stitching 72" x 48"
Private collection
2013 Oil on Canvas 24" x18"
oil on canvas
24” x 56”
This unique medium is both beautiful and versatile, offering multiple possibilities. Various techniques and methods include layering, molding, scraping, carving, embedding and pouring.
2012 Encaustic over mixed materials installation
Seven pieces of varying sizes, approximately 12" x 8" x 8"
Private Collection
Encaustic and found object assemblage on wood panel 6" x 6"
Private Collection
Encaustic assemblage scroll 14 x 38”
Encaustic assemblage scroll 14 x 35”
Encaustic over cardboard. 20" x 14" x 6"
Private collection
2013 Encaustic and image transfer 6" x 6" wood panel
Private Collection
2013 Encaustic and image transfer 6" x 6" wood panel
Private Collection
2016 Encaustic 12" x 12" x 1 5/8"
Private Collection
2016 Encaustic 12" x 12" x 1 5/8”
Private Collection
2016 Encaustic 12" x 12" x 1 5/8"
Private Collection
Encaustic on panel 24”x18”
Encaustic on panel, 12”x 12”
Private collection
Encaustic on panel, 12”x12”
Private Collection
Encaustic on Panel , 12”x 12”
Private collection
Encaustic on panel, 12”x 12”
Private collection
Encaustic on panel, 24”x 18”
Encaustic, multiple layer mono print on wood panel 6" x 6"
Private Collection
2013 Encaustic on wood panel, detail of Ice studies 6" x 6"
2013 Ice series is a collection of small studies and larger compositions that are a result of an investigation informed by nature. Emulating the crystalline characteristics and other formal visual qualities of ice through encaustic inherently provides a surrogate, which is then transcended through abstraction, altered and reduced to an intrinsic essence. Wood panels, 6" x 6" and 14" x 14".
Encaustic and found object assemblage on wood panel 8" x 8"
Private collecton
Encaustic assemblage on wood panel 6" x 6"
Private collection
Encaustic and found object assemblage on wood panel 10" x 10"
Private Collection
Primal Repression
Thesis work, Encaustic and mixed media
Oakland University Studio Art Award Fall 2014
Primal Repression
Visual tension between the aesthetics of both horror and delight facilitate an environment filled with invented biomorphic organisms signaling body to the viewer, evoking an affect of the abject; disturbing identity, system, and order. The resulting reorientation of the distinction between self and the other fosters a parallel status affording empathy for both.
These pieces were created by sawing, soldering, and fusing of various metals.
Nickel and copper cut, textured and cold connected with rivets. Finished with heat patina.
Agate bezel set silver ring.
Hammered and pierced heat patina treated nickel bezel set starfish fossil with small shells attached.
Hammered and pierced heat patina treated nickel with small shell attached.
Steel sheets, tubes, rods, and drops that are cut, welded, ground, or bent, then sanded and treated with patina finishes or paint.
Steel sheets, cut, welded, ground, sanded, and treated with rust patina and clear coat.
Grounded and sanded cut and found steel tube drops welded to metal rods and bent re-rod with a heat patina finish.
Bent re-rod on steel drop base with spiraled steel rod. Welded, ground and sanded, finished with Dark Hammered spray paint.
Hand built and wheel thrown ceramic pottery.
Wheel thrown vessel with lid.
Incised terracotta pinch pot.
Wheel thrown terracotta teacup.
Digitally fused images and alternative process photography including pin hole camera and cyanotype.
Digitally fused image.
Digitally fused image.
Digitally fused image.
Digitally fused image.
Digitally fused image.
Digitally fused image.
Digitally fused image.
Pin hole image digitally colored and printed.
Pin hole image digitally colored and printed.
Pin hole image digitally colored and printed.
Cyanotypes printed on water color paper.
This collection contains a sampling of my web site images, product design and graphic work, most of which is created in Adobe Creative Suite. I have produced bookwork with InDesign and created graphic works in Adobe Illustrator. I use Photoshop for adjusting and formatting images within my projects. I have also used Brackets to create code for web stories and websites.
This is screenshot of a website that I coded in the Brackets text editor. The website was created to lead the viewer through the process of working with encaustic medium.
This is a poster design project incorporating text form a previous event at Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.
This poster was a project advocating for a holistic approach in the treatment of anxiety and depression.
This is poster design displays a created bike and ride event.
This is a logo design project for a created craft cider company.
Perhaps nothing has evolved more in recent years as the modes of communication. With rapid change comes confusion and fear, anger and manipulation. Social media and the smart phone are both loved and loathed by their users for good reason, and the way we engage in dialogue with each other has forever changed.
“Anonymous” is both a sculpture and a social experiment. Created by Hamtramck artists Nina Caruso and Christopher Schneider, these 480 feet of steel pipes act as a communication device. Groups of people are encouraged to talk and listen into the ends. Due to the multitude of bends, it will not be clear who is on the other end.
What will you say when you are not sure who is listening?
Anonymous can be custom built to be site specific for indoor or outside spaces.
ArtPrize 2017 Grand Rapids, MI
Nina Caruso standing with a mural painting she did in Zussman Park in Hamtramck. Hatch Art commissioned this work, along with the cartoon of life in Hamtramck by Matt Feazell on the other side, for the public to enjoy.
Public Portable Mural through Anton Art Center providing Art Programming for Mt Clemens Public Schools Middle School Enrichment Camp, Mt. Clemens, MI.
Fourth Grade Rochester Community Schools Foil Tooling Relief Sculpture Collaboration for Brilliant Detroit Osborne House, Detroit, MI.
Fourth Grade Holly Area Schools collaboration for Children’s Hospital, Troy, MI.
Pistons Public art Programming at Pingree Park, Detroit, MI.
“Anonymous” is both a sculpture and a social experiment. Created by Hamtramck artists Nina Caruso and Christopher Schneider. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hq-vdSDHf8
