NINNI

Nicole Eva Mueller (Ninni) has been creating art her entire life as a means to express herself through challenges and create balance in life. Recently she has focused more time to her art which previously was secondary to her industrial design career. One main reason she creates is a result of being an observer, an observer of the human emotion and humans in general which are not her favorite creatures despite being one herself. Nicole takes time to interpret her love of form with her personal commentary on the relationships between humans and how we project our emotions on to animals. At first glance her work may appear very simple, almost childish, but look a little longer and you will begin to see the guarded and cynical point of view which resides in the pieces. There is a playful darkness to them, in which she hopes you will appreciate her years of reduction to capture a complex emotion with the most minimal of lines, forms and body language.

Raised in the Los Angeles basin by German immigrant parents, She learned to cherish diversity and the knowledge that exposure to a variety of cultures gives us. Her family was very practical and hands on, literally building their own home, to grow up in a good school district. During her education Nicole observed many wealthy families, grew up amongst them but struggled with their differences of values and never quite felt she belonged. She was an experimental teen and is quite content she tried a few things and lived to tell about it. Post a global trekking design career, Nicole has rediscovered the simpler more peaceful life of submerging in nature and creating with her hands original one of a kind works. Curiosity and the drive to learn new processes has led to a large variety of mediums and types of work,

Nicole resides and creates on Orcas Island near the Canadian border in the Pacific Northwest, USA. Ninnistudios is based in Portland Oregon.