The varied subjects in George Nick's paintings--ranging from vintage automobiles to Back Bay street scenes, from Venetian waterways to Maine landscapes--reflect his appetite for experimentation. "I'm always reaching out for left-field ideas and approaches, trying to understand what I can do and what I can't do," says Nick. This experimentation is reflected in Nick's paint handling, which, always lively and luscious, veers from crisply detailed strokes to broad swaths of color, sometimes within the same piece.
Nick retired in 1994 from the Massachusetts College of Art after twenty five years of teaching. In 1993, he was honored by Mass Art with a major retrospective of over one hundred paintings. His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Hirschhorn Museum in Washington D.C., among others.