Nicko Torres Artist Reception • December 15th

In all honesty, this gallery initially served to justify my disdain towards the modern art sphere and its superficial importance of a piece’s meaning other than the work itself. While that scorn remains intact, that is not the sole reason for my resentment. Though the purpose of what I’ve completed so far was meant to exist without meaning, every one of them speaks to me in some way. Whether it be my admiration or inadequacies expressed via ill-related styles, they all are an extension of me. On an individual level I hold no grip on this revelation, but what pains me is the incessant need of others to understand my relation – and with a seemingly ingrained emotional reclusion, something as simple as yearning for a long-forgotten childlike wonder feels explicitly personal, yet your comprehension of that is what dictates “true” art.