Statement

Nicole Deponte is a visual artist whose work spans surreal mixed media collage and abstract painting. Trained as a sculptor (BFA, Massachusetts College of Art and Design), Deponte has worked professionally as an artist since 2003. Her practice is rooted in the intuitive—each piece a dialogue between materials, gesture, and the subconscious.

Her current body of work includes original collage paintings and drawings on paper, as well as abstract paintings on canvas. Merging watercolor, gouache, ink, and hand-cut collage, Deponte constructs layered visual narratives that dwell in liminal space—where landscapes become bodies, and figures emerge like half-remembered dreams.

This work is deeply shaped by a personal experience of synesthesia, a perceptual phenomenon where sound, color, and memory become intertwined. These sensory crossings serve as a guide: a chord might conjure a texture; a memory, a palette. The resulting compositions are emotionally charged and symbolically open—less meant to be deciphered than felt. 

Resisting rigid structure, her process is one of intuitive unfolding. Each decision is a response to the last, allowing a poetic ambiguity to remain. The outcome is a symbolic, sensorial world that invites quiet contemplation and deeper recognition—where myth, memory, and abstraction meet.

2018 “Directions To My House” Feldspar Studio & Gallery, Savage, MD

2017 American Craft Council Baltimore, MD

2016 American Craft Council Baltimore, MD

2007 Flowers Revealed, Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, ME

2007 Hijacking the Future, Donnelly Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

2007 Heartbreaker, Artisans on Taylor, Port Townsend, WA

2006 arthouse, Jamaica Plain, MA

2005 Works with Paper, Judi Rotenberg GalleryDirector's Pick, Judi Rotenberg Gallery

2004 Summer Science, Judi Rotenberg Gallery18th Annual BFA Drawing Show, Mills Gallery

2003 Small Wonders, group show, Judi Rotenberg Gallery

2002 Fancy, solo exhibit, Petersham Craft Center

2000 All School Show, Massachusetts College of Art

1999 The Space Between, Senior Exhibit, Massachusetts College of Art

Restraint and Non- Restraint, Petersham Craft Center

1998 All School Show, Massachusetts College of Art

1997 Haystack group show, Massachusetts College of Art

All School Show, group show, Massachusetts College of Art

1996 Haystack, group show, Massachusetts College of Art

AUCTIONS HRC New England Auctions, October 2005

COLLECTIONS Wellington Management National private collections.

PUBLICATIONS 2004 Arts Media Magazine, "Bringing the New to Newbury" by Rachel Strutt, The Boston Globe, August 20, "Three Shows Shake up Summer Art Doldrums" by Cate McQuaid