Niki Ketchman Fine Artist

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Niki Ketchman Fine Artist Contemporary artist and sculptor exploring the space between sculpture, craft, design and function. Connecticut | MA, Art Major, Montclair University.

Industrial forms, domestic materials, fiber, photography and digital imagery. I tend to work in series. Within each series the work is tied together by a theme or idea. My most recent series is the Resination Series. My Rose Series which consists of sculptures and digital prints is one of my largest. The rose is a pervasive image in life, literature, visual art songs and film. It can signify everything from love to war, from romance to death, from celebration to mourning and therefore seems a perfect image to use when addressing the passing of life, the passing of time. Sculptures in the Rose Series are made by sewing, weaving, draping and decorating and incorporating digital prints in the same way that my sculptures in other series have been made. A variety of materials are used including steel rods, wire, fabrics, vinyl cord, Aqua resin and more. Ideas about where art, function, craft and design intersect are on my mind. My sculptures are most often interactive if not necessarily functional in a traditional sense. One can sit on some sculptures or lean against others. One can walk into or through others. In this way the visitor experiences the work physically and well as visually.

The next piece I'm sharing from The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is from Max Weber.Max Weber (Ame...
10/22/2026

The next piece I'm sharing from The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is from Max Weber.

Max Weber (American, born Russian Empire, now Poland, 1881-1961)
Figure in Rotation, 1917, enlarged 1947-48, cast ca. 1947-48

Patinated bronze

Gift of Carl D. Lobell, 1994 (1994.341.5)
Rei Kawakubo's landmark spring/summer 1997iBody Meets Dress, Dress Meets Body collection radically dismantled the classical ideal of the contained female body, exemplified by this garment. Its unsettling, unorthodox silhouette is achieved with goose-down cushions at the hips and back. Kawakubo further challenged convention by employing a gingham fabric, traditionally associated with feminine domesticity.
The uneasiness that her aesthetic precipitates stems from the asymmetry it introduces, questioning an essential component of conventional female beauty and what it is to be sexually alluring. The form confounds all views in a way similar to Max Weber's Figure in Rotation, with its Cubist-influenced twisted torso and exaggerated, asymmetrical facial features.

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Jeff and I saw a fabulous exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC in their section called The Costume Instit...
10/20/2026

Jeff and I saw a fabulous exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC in their section called The Costume Institute. It used to be located under the basement of the museum, but it is now on the main level just past the main entrance. The exhibition is about how clothing echos art- That it is more then just a covering or a style. Clothing sends its own message the way art does. Following are a few examples.

From the museum:

BODILY BEING IN ITS DIVERSITY
This gallery explores the body in its diversity-how fashion has idealized, distorted, and ultimately reclaimed diverse forms of embodiment.
The Reclaimed Body marks a decisive turn from abstraction toward affirmation and sets the tone for the remainder of this portion of the exhibition. The Pregnant Body, the Corpulent Body, and the Disabled Body-historically excluded from prevailing norms-are centered through custom mannequins modeled on specific individuals. In upending entrenched equations of beauty, garments that reveal rather than conceal difference solicit relational recognition and empathetic engagement. By asserting distinct strengths and vulnerabilities, bodily diversity is reframed as fundamental to our shared human condition-one that the adjacent gallery examines not through difference, but through what all bodies hold in common.

ANN-SOFIE BACK (Swedish, born 1971)
"BBL" tights, 2024
Red polyester knit
Courtesy Ann-Sofie Back
Ann-Sofie Back ensemble reclaims the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century padded bustle to dramatically exaggerate the wearer's buttocks and deliberately destabilize the classical conventions of symmetry and proportionality.

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This is a close-up view of my latest piece, titled “Just Remains”. ⁠⁠It hangs on the wall. It is 12”h x 20”d x 17.5” w. ...
09/29/2026

This is a close-up view of my latest piece, titled “Just Remains”. ⁠
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It hangs on the wall. It is 12”h x 20”d x 17.5” w. ⁠
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It is mixed media including a stretched canvas, paint, rope ⁠
styrofoam, string and resin.⁠
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This is the front view of my latest piece, titled “Just Remains”. ⁠⁠It hangs on the wall. It is 12”h x 20”d x 17.5” w. ⁠...
09/27/2026

This is the front view of my latest piece, titled “Just Remains”. ⁠
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It hangs on the wall. It is 12”h x 20”d x 17.5” w. ⁠
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It is mixed media including a stretched canvas, paint, rope ⁠
styrofoam, string and resin.⁠
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The following are images of my latest piece, titled “Just Remains”. It hangs on the wall. It is 12”h x 20”d x 17.5” w. I...
09/26/2026

The following are images of my latest piece, titled “Just Remains”.

It hangs on the wall. It is 12”h x 20”d x 17.5” w.

It is mixed media including a stretched canvas, paint, rope
styrofoam, string and resin.

What does it make you think of?

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This is a description of Nour Mobarak's Reproductive Logistics.NikiKetchman.com
09/24/2026

This is a description of Nour Mobarak's Reproductive Logistics.

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Lastly, from the Whitney Biennial, I want to share Nour Mobarak's Reproductive Logistics. "She made casts of her body us...
09/22/2026

Lastly, from the Whitney Biennial, I want to share Nour Mobarak's Reproductive Logistics. "She made casts of her body using resin, a synthetic material, and mycelium, the root-like structure of a fungus. Her series Recto Verso, on view at far right, reduces the body to a form—a vehicle for exploring light, color, and space. In Reproductive Logistics 4, Mobarak uses a cast of her pregnant body as a lens through which the room and bodies within it are mirrored, flipped, and distorted. She conceived the work as a meditation on how factors beyond our control can determine biological reproduction as well as artistic creation."

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This is the description of Malcom Peacock's redwood tree sculpture.NikiKetchman.com
09/17/2026

This is the description of Malcom Peacock's redwood tree sculpture.

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Here is a close-up of Malcolm Peacock's redwood tree sculpture. You can see the ~3,500 braids, which he made by hand ove...
09/16/2026

Here is a close-up of Malcolm Peacock's redwood tree sculpture. You can see the ~3,500 braids, which he made by hand over ten months.

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Next from the Whitney Biennial: "This sculpture is Malcolm Peacock's interpretation of a coastal redwood tree, which he ...
09/14/2026

Next from the Whitney Biennial: "This sculpture is Malcolm Peacock's interpretation of a coastal redwood tree, which he encountered on multiple trips to the Pacific Northwest. Its surface comprises about 3,500 braids, which Peacock made by hand over ten months. As a long-distance runner, Peacock often explores ideas of endurance and performance in his work. The texts on the surface of the sculpture are excerpts from the autobiographies of Frederick Douglass and Malcolm X."

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