Primarily utilizing a Toyo-Field 45CF 4-by-5 camera, Nick Albertson's work combines photography, video, and sculptural forms.
[1][2] Albertson's recent body of work utilizes the repetitive patterning of everyday household items such as rubber bands, cups, straws, paper napkins, and plastic bags.
When framed through Nick Albertson's photographic lens, these mundane objects undergo a transformation.
Through patterning, light and shadow, sculptural formations, and post-production editing, Albertson's work blurs the lines between abstraction and representation, playing to the repetitive nature of the objects in question and the viewer's familiarity with common household products.
[8] He was the recipient of the Bard College Photography Advisory Board Scholarship (2005), the Follett Fellowship Scholarship (2006), the Albert P. Weisman Award (2011, 2012), the AGROUND: 16th Annual Photo Competition Exhibition, Photo Center NW, Seattle, WA (2011, Honorable Mention), the Union League Civic & Arts Foundation Visual Arts Competition, the Stuart and Iris Baum Project Completion Grant (finalist), the Capsim Student Award, and the Bridgeport Art Center Exhibition Award (2013).