Nicole Pietrantoni

38” x 32” x 2

Bent steel, inkjet print on Kozo paper.

2025

90” x 220” x 7”
Inkjet on Kozo paper, acrylic paint. Handbound into 17 accordion books.

2020

A series of sculptural accordion books made of bent steel.

Inkjet on Kozo paper, bent steel, acrylic paint.

2021

26” x 30” x 2”

Inkjet on Kozo paper, acrylic paint. Handbound into 6 accordion books.

2023

28” x 64” x 4”
Inkjet on Kozo paper, acrylic paint. Handbound into 15 accordion books. 2020.
Edition Size: 2

50 x 63 x 2 cm

Archival inkjet print on Kozo paper, acrylic paint, archival spraypaint.

2024

26” x 30” x 2”

Inkjet on Kozo paper, acrylic paint, cyanotype. Handbound into 6 accordion books.

2025

96” x 84” x 3”

Inkjet on Kozo paper, acrylic, screenprinted mirrors, photocopies, found objects.

2024

68” x 300” x 5”

Inkjet on Kozo paper, acrylic paint, bent steel.

Site specific installation for Meta Offices, Bellevue, Washington.

Curated by Tamar Benzikry and Lele Barnett.

2021

Images courtesy Meta Open Arts by Dominic Neri

26” x 43” x 2”

Inkjet on Kozo paper, acrylic paint. Handbound into 10 accordion books.

2022

46" x 430" x 3

Inkjet print on bamboo paper, handbound into 75 accordion books.

2025

A site specific commission in Printers' Row in downtown Chicago. Drawing on the history of the print and book industry in this historic Chicago neighborhood, I created a series of halftone-printed accordion books that spans nearly 11 meters (36 feet across), with gradients of warm tones that mimic aged book pages. Located at Straits Row on LaSalle Street.

26” x 30” x 2”

Inkjet on Kozo paper, acrylic paint. Handbound into 6 accordion books.

2023

26” x 40” x 2”

Inkjet on Kozo paper, acrylic paint. Handbound into 9 accordion books.

2022

26” x 30” x 2”

Inkjet on Kozo paper, acrylic paint. Handbound into 6 accordion books.

2023

84” x 84” x 5”

Inkjet on Awagami Inbe Thick, spraypaint, folded and bound into 9 accordion books that expand to create a panoramic image.

Text written by Devon Wootten.

2015

AURORA IV

26” x 57” x 2”

Inkjet on Kozo paper, acrylic paint. Handbound into 13 accordion books.

2021

26” x 36” x 2”

Inkjet on Kozo paper, acrylic paint. Handbound into 8 accordion books.

2022

36” x 52” x 4”

Inkjet on Awagami Inbe Thick, spraypaint. Folded and bound into 11 accordion books that expand to create a panoramic image.

2016

A series of sculptural accordion books.

Inkjet on Kozo paper, acrylic paint. Handbound into series of accordion books.

2021

Editioned risograph prints at Lake Effect Editions at Syracuse University.

11” x 17”

2023

26” x 40” x 2”

Inkjet print on Kozo paper, acrylic, handbound into a series of accordion books.

2022

A series of sculptural accordion books made of bent steel.

Inkjet on Kozo paper, bent steel, acrylic paint.

2021

Still Life with Child’s Lunch

26” x 62” x 2”

Inkjet on Kozo paper, acrylic paint. Handbound into 14 accordion books.

2022

36” x 40” x 4”

Inkjet on Kozo paper, handbound into 7 accordion books.

2019

36” x 40” x 4”

Inkjet on Awagami Inbe Thick, spraypaint. Folded and bound into 7 accordion books that expand to create a panoramic image.

Sunset Strips utilizes the accordion book format to create a fragmented picture of a vibrant, hyper-colored sunset. The work is a playful homage to Ed Ruscha’s accordion book, Every Building on the Sunset Strip. Like Ruscha’s book, Sunset Strips documents a specific place in time, compressed in the accordion form and transformed into a series of glimpses and fragments.

2017

144” x 48” x 36”

Inkjet on Awagami Inbe Thin, folded and bound into 6 accordion books that expand to create a panoramic image. Housed in a slipcase box.

Text written by Devon Wootten

2015

108” x 300” x 8”

Inkjet on Awagami Inbe Thin, folded and bound into 33 accordion books.

2019

108" x 396" x 12”

Inkjet on Awagami Inbe Thin, folded and bound into 30 accordion books that expand to create a panoramic image.

Text written by Devon Wootten

Implications is a series of accordion books that expand to create a panoramic image of icebergs in Iceland. The text simultaneously reads as both a poem (Risk[,] Event[,] Disaster) written by Devon Wootten and an official report on climate change, Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation.

Working out of a long lineage of artists interested in the landscape, in this body of work I gesture to our active role in constructing and idealizing landscape. The installation aims to draw attention to the means of making such images by enlarging halftone dots and disrupting the image through folds, cuts, and ruptures.

Referencing 19th-century panoramas as well as the Romantic painting tradition, this work nods to a period when humans’ relationship to landscape was rapidly transformed. Similarly, today’s changing landscape demands that I examine the tension between my enjoyment of beautiful, idealized landscapes and an awareness of their ecological complexity.

2013

168” x 72” x 24”

Inkjet on Awagami Inbe Thick, folded and bound into 5 accordion books (each 22 pages) that expand to create a panoramic image.

Text written by Devon Wootten

Precipitous is a collection of handbound accordion books that expand to create a life-sized panoramic image of a rising sea. As books, the works gesture to the authority of the encyclopedic and the cataloguing of natural specimens. As an installation, they dismantle sublime images through cuts, folds, and halftone dots.

The overlaid poems by Devon Wootten are appropriations from reports issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The text draws on the language of the report, Climate Change and Water.

2014

A free, downloadable zine created in collaboration with poet Devon Wootten for the Quarantine Public Library project.

2021

120” x 84” x 12”

Inkjet on Awagami Inbe Thick, folded and bound into 5 accordion books that expand to create a panoramic image.

Text written by Devon Wootten

2016

108” x 26” x 12”

Inkjet on Kozo paper with ink, handbound into accordion books.

2018

156” x 127” x 20”

Inkjet on Awagmi Inbe Thick.

2018

Inkjet on Kozo paper, folded into over 200 accordion books. Installation at Eastern Washington University gallery in collaboration with poet Devon Wootten.

2018

5” x 67” x 5”

Inkjet on Awagami Inbe thick, bent steel.

2017

54” X 24” X 7”

Screenprint on acrylic panels, c-clamps, spotlight.

This waterfall is falling for you draws attention to the ways in which our experience and expectations of nature are constructed. The work creates a beautiful image of a waterfall in Iceland while simultaneously revealing the photographic “trick” - the image is just a shadow projected on the wall. As viewers, we can understand and see how the image is being produced for us.

2012

14” x 12” x 7”

Screenprint on acrylic panels, c-clamps, inkjet transparencies, spotlight.

The series Build your own landscape draws upon the tradition of 19th Century landscape photography. Referencing glass plate negatives, the printed acrylic plates project a shadowed image onto the wall, while additional elements like moons, clouds, and trees can be rearranged on the plate to create the perfect composition.

2010-12

72” x 168” x 8”

Screenprint on acrylic plates, c-clamps, lasercut paper.

2014

A series of site specific works in Iceland during my year as a Fulbright recipient that explore the tourist’s position and privilege.

Monoprint with flour on black sand beach.

Commercially printed postcards placed in tourist shops.

2010-11