The Feminist and Critical Pop Art of Nicola L.
Emma Ng, Hyperallergic
December 2017
Nicola L. says she abandoned painting after the artist Alberto Greco asked her, ‘How can you paint in the 1960s?’ Soon after, she began to create playful sculptures that doubled as furniture, later moving into performances and films imbued with an equally exuberant spirit. She came up alongside other artists who were teasing out the conceptual knot of Pop and performance art in the 1960s and ’70s, but it’s only now, as she enters her 80s, that Nicola L. has received her first institutional survey, ‘Nicola L.: Works, 1968 to the Present’ at the SculptureCenter in Long Island City, New York. […]