{"id":448,"date":"2012-03-23T19:18:52","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T23:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2012\/03\/23\/alum-nikki-pressley-a-rising-artist-in-california\/"},"modified":"2022-11-08T13:43:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T18:43:39","slug":"alum-nikki-pressley-a-rising-artist-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/alum-nikki-pressley-a-rising-artist-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Alum Nikki Pressley a rising artist in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2307\" style=\"width: 334px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/nikki-pressley.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2307\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2307 lazyload\" title=\"nikki-pressley\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/nikki-pressley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"324\" height=\"216\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 324px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 324\/216;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2307\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Tony Byrd<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The editors at <em>California Home + Design<\/em> asked the top art curators in the state to help them pick the 10 California artists who are on the rise.\u00a0 Nikki Pressley, a native of Greenville who graduated from Furman in 2004 with a degree in art, was one of the 10 artists selected.<\/p>\n<p>The article states that Pressley \u201cnaturally integrates typography into her art, which explores the history, memory and language of her cultural surroundings. The Los Angeles resident\u2019s piece for the 2010 California Biennial, Word, is a double-sided work on paper that embodies the plights of West African slaves who were brought to South Carolina centuries ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.californiahomedesign.com\/gallery\/10-california-artists-you-need-know-now#item-15\">Read more at \u201cThe Top 10 California Artists You Need to Know in 2012\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The editors at\u00a0<em>California Home + Design<\/em> asked the top art curators in the state to help them pick the 10 California artists who are on the rise. Nikki Pressley, a native of Greenville who graduated from Furman in 2004 with a degree in art, was one of the 10 artists selected. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles, and received her MFA degree in 2008 from the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, Ca.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,45,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-art","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}