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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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