Nicholas Hondrogen
Natural Selection

Nicholas Hondrogen's Natural Selection is an ongoing series of paintings that explore elements of chance, randomness and causality. The paintings use neuroimaging technology to formulate a visual language that creates interior portraits of the mind. His Fractal Ellipse studies evolved from this series and are influenced by Benoit Mandelbrot's thinking on fractals.

Bio

Painter, sculptor, photographer and filmmaker, born in Concord , New Hampshire , Nicholas Hondrogen started his work at an early age. He painted outdoor murals in the Boston area while teaching at the Boston Museum School , then moved to Paris in 1972, where he had numerous gallery shows and was featured in several publications and books. His works are in the permanent collections of many museums while his commissioned outdoor sculptures are in several public sites around Paris .

In 1975 he began work in photography and film. Five years later, a major exhibition of color photography followed at the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco . After nine years abroad he made the transition to New York . There he also wrote a number of screenplays and directed and produced short films, winning him a grant from the American Film Institute. This led to the award winning short, "One Or The Other."

In 1994 he established Perfect Moment Foundation, a public charity which would raise money for AIDS. In 1997 he completed a documentary feature film entitled "Perfect Moment" that won the Audience Award at the Slamdance Film Festival in Park City , Utah .

In 2000 he was the recipient of the Pollock Krasner Grant for his work in painting.

His paintings, sculptures and photographs are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art of San Francisco, the Musee d'Art Moderne de Paris, the Monumental Sculpture Commission of Sainte Genvieve des Bois, the Musee Nationale d'Art Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou, the Septentrion, France , the Dartmouth College Museum , and several private collections both here and in Europe .

Hondrogen currently lives and works in Malibu , California .