Peter Nadin: The Invisible World

A painter, sculptor, and poet whose work explores the practice of mark- and image-making as fundamental, evolutionary human functions, Peter Nadin (b. 1954 in Bromborough) is the son of a sea captain whose family roots stretch back centuries in northwest England. In 1980 in New York, he became a founder of an unlikely artists’ collective called The Offices of Fend, Fitzgibbon, Holzer, Nadin, Prince & Winters. In 2022, Off Paradise hosted the exhibitions “A Proposal to Peter Nadin, 1979; realized 2022” and “The Distance from a Lemon to Murder.” Nadin’s work has been included in numerous exhibitions, and public and private collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, the Yale Center for British Art and the Centre Pompidou.

Writer, editor, and critic Jessica Holmes’s writing features regularly in BOMB, Hyperallergic, and The Brooklyn Rail, where she also edits the ArTonic column. Other bylines include Vanity Fair Spain, The Magazine Antiques, and The Woman’s Art Journal. Recent exhibition catalogue contributions include Judith Braun: My Pleasure (Opalka Gallery, Russell Sage College), Ellsworth Ausby: Somewhere in Space, Paintings from the 1960s and 1970s (Eric Firestone Gallery) and Markus Linnenbrink: THEREARESPACESTHATBREATHE (Museum of New Art, Portsmouth). Previously she served as Editor-in-Chief of the arts publication Degree Critical. For nearly two decades, she worked for the Calder Foundation, including 6 years as its Deputy Director.