Adieu à Nicola L, Pop Art Icon
Cultured Magazine
Jan 10, 2019
Over an extensive career, Nicola L journeyed from Morocco, where she was born, to Paris, the city where she first encountered Nouveau Réalisme to great influence, to New York, where she took roost in the Chelsea Hotel, and Ibiza, whose sun-kissed coast inspired the artist’s longstanding concern for the skin’s warm envelopment.
Chère
Canadian Art
Jan 9, 2019
The suggestively placed knobs and shiny surfaces of feminist artist Nicola L’s functional sculptures tempt the viewer to stroke, poke, pull and touch. A commode, coffee table, bookshelf and two “sofas” playing dress-up as furniture invite sublimation and use while mocking the impulse to realize an absurd desire.
Nicola L, an Overlooked Female Pioneer of the Pop Art Movement, Has Died at 81
Artnet News
Jan 3, 2019
Conceptual French artist Nicola L., whose feminist work has been experiencing newfound recognition in recent years, died on Monday in Los Angeles at the age of 81. Her shape-shifting art, which spans sculpture, painting, performance, and furniture, often explored the human (and mostly the female) body.
Nicola L. Leaves Behind a Legacy of Fearless, Offbeat Sculpture
Artsy
Jan 3, 2019
Artist Nicola L., best known for her anthropomorphic, functional sculptures, died on December 31, 2018, at age 81. From a white, foot-shaped sofa to a curvy yellow cabinet with a round face and suggestive, nipplesque drawer pulls, L.’s artwork cheekily merged principles of art, design, and furniture.
Nicola L's Functional Sculptures Are as Relevant as Ever
Architectural Digest
Nov 19, 2018
"It would be perfect for jewelry," says a gallery visitor at New York's Arsenal Contemporary to the woman next to him, tugging open the nipple drawer of Nicola L.'s La Femme Commode and contemplating its obvious use: storage.
Pop Artist Nicola L Wants Us to Wear Her Skin and Younger Artists Are Into it
New York Magazine, Bedford + Bowery
Nov 13, 2018
Nicola L was making art around the same time as other household pop art names like Andy Warhol. But while Warhol has a huge exhibition at the Whitney right now (with a sick gift shop), Nicola L. didn't get her first major retrospective until last year.
People, Places and Things to Know: Feminist Art That’s Also Furniture, Patterned Bags and More
New York Times - STYLE Magazine
Oct 12, 2018
There was a “Saturday Night Live” sketch not too long ago in which Kate McKinnon pretended to be Brigitte Bardot responding to the #MeToo movement. “Why does woman have breast? It’s for a man to grab and pull!” she said, taking a drag on her prop cigarette. “A drawer has a knob. A woman has two knobs!”.