Nikki Pike: Ovum
December 7, 2026 - May 21, 2027 @ Adams County
Adams County Human Services Building
11860 N. Pecos St., Westminster, CO
Native Colorado bark (cottonwood, ash, elm & ponderosa), steel & wooden armature
Ovum is the third form created in a series of site specific environmental installations. Underlying the work is an invitation for the viewer to consider the impact of human manipulation of the environment, and a call out to the strength of women today. Ovum possesses an immediate visual simplicity that opens into something much larger. Her geometric bark forms are at once familiar and completely strange. Bark is rough, irregular, organic, and unwieldy. On these precise geometric structures, it begins to feel almost impossible—unnatural, but somehow miraculous.
Created over several months, Ovum is artist Nikki Pike’s largest work to date. She spent considerable hours in the creation and assembly of the sculpture. Pike constructed and installed Ovum in Green Mountain Falls, Colorado as part of her Green Box artist residency. An edition of Ovum has also been exhibited at Denver International Airport as part of its DEN Public Art Program. She is excited to have the art installation continue to exude its wonder and whimsy in this Adams County Human Services Center exhibition space.
Nikki Pike is an artist and activist committed to serving the community through her art practice and role as an educator. Pike straddles Public Art, Social Sculpture, Service Art and is exploring ideas of Relief Art intended to aid communities responding to disaster. Her methods start from the ideals of democracy. Pike has a BFA in Sculpture from the University of Colorado Denver, and a MFA in Social Sculpture, Service Art from University of South Florida.
About the Artist
Nikki Pike es una artista y activista comprometida con servir a la comunidad a través de su práctica artística y su papel como educadora. Pike abarca el arte público, la escultura social y el arte de servicio y está explorando ideas de arte de socorro destinadas a ayudar a las comunidades a responder a los desastres. Sus métodos parten de los ideales de la democracia. Pike tiene una licenciatura en Escultura de la Universidad de Colorado en Denver y una maestría en Escultura Social y Arte de Servicio de la Universidad del Sur de Florida.
BMoCA at Adams County is a collaboration between Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art and Adams County. Curated by BMoCA, this exhibition is an extension of the museum’s exhibition programming.
