About

Nicole Foran (MFA, University of Cincinnati) is an artist based in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.  Her work investigates memory, identity, and psychogeography, the emotional effect place has on emotion. 

Windows Artist Statement:

This series explores the intersection of windows—both literal and metaphorical—and the idea of phantoms as lingering presences. I am drawn to the way windows frame and isolate, focusing our attention while simultaneously omitting context. In a similar way, phantoms are often imagined as lonely souls, suspended in time by a singular, unresolved moment—whether through error, trauma, or loss.My practice engages materially and conceptually with these themes through an investigation of light, transparency and opacity, and framing. I work with an archive of source material that carries personal and cultural memory: vernacular photographs, architectural forms, and pages from early 1990s childhood sticker books. These artifacts serve as compositional and conceptual scaffolding, offering parallels to the function of windows as both portals and barriers. I’m particularly interested in buildings that no longer stand, have been abandoned, or have lost their original purpose. Though their function has faded, the architecture still carries the ghost of its original intent—an echo of its past life.

Through this series, I engage with how memory, material, and absence shape our perception of space and history. This work is grounded in a desire to understand how built environments, both social and physical, persist beyond their intended lifespans—how they remain legible, if ghostly, through traces and impressions.