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    B. Nicole Klassen Biography


 

Nicole is a traditional still life and figure painter. She received her schooling in art at San Jose State University where she was able to develop her skills with the guidance of two exceptional painters, Maynard Dixon Stewart and Robert K. Semans. 

 

Nicole’s first one-person show was in 1994 at the Alma Gilbert Gallery in Burlingame, California. She has exhibited in other well-known California galleries such as the New Masters Gallery and Gallery Elite, both in Carmel, and the previous location of the Bingham Gallery in San Jose. More recently, she has shown her work at Clayton-Williams Fine Arts in Utah. Her work has been in two group shows at the Cahoon Museum of Art on Cape Cod, and six at the Triton Museum of Art in California where she received their Bronze Award for one of the shows.

 

Some of the notable acquisitions of Nicole’s work are a still life purchased by Alma Gilbert, which hangs in the house of the late Maxfield Parrish, and a Madonna figure purchased and displayed by The Cathedral Church of the Advent in Birmingham, Alabama. Nicole has collectors in the United States, Europe, and Japan, where she also shows.

 

The Art Renewal Center gave Nicole numerous honors and has published her paintings in their 2005, 2011, 2016 and 2019 catalogs.  In addition, Nicole was twice a finalist in International Artist Magazine’s still life competition, and her paintings appeared in the October/November 2005 and October/November 2008 issues.  Further, the editor asked her to write an article and demonstration, which was published in the June/July 2007 issue and another for the September/August 2010 issue. Nicole also had the honor of being named as one of the nation’s “Leading Ladies of Painting” in the January 2006 issue of American Art Collector. 

 

 

 

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