Nicole Dikon

Wow what a fun project this was! I’ve shared bits and pieces of this mural but I wanted to give you a little more detail. Ty was such an incredible host and catalyst for this piece. His vision was one open for collaboration, and because of that I got to paint something unique to him while integrating my own process. This wall I’m calling ‘UltraMural’ is a mash up of my own woodcut prints combined with vintage Ultraman designs and some new color play. It was designed to serve as a backdrop for Ty to record himself making music and DJing sets, but also as a space for me to take my process from printmaking to mural painting. You can also check out the video of @tymeansthankyou mixing as I’m painting in the background on YouTube. The link is in my bio and it’s a super fun groovy set to work too💕

Excited to share some photos from a project I was a part of over the last few years for @konavillagerosewood These woodcut prints are in some of their guest suites at the resort. Thank you to @kellysueda for always putting the work into beautiful spaces. Beautiful photographs by @douglasfriedman

Truly excited to share this video🥰🥺 On Monday evening at 6 pm I’ll be doing an interview on Instagram Live with @msmuseumart please tune in if you have the desire and time to do so 💕 Repost from @msmuseumart • September 2021 | AT&T presents Makers in Their Spaces is an online offering in which MMA’s virtual participants are invited into the creative space – physical, mental, social, or otherwise – of a maker, thereby giving them unique insight into how that particular artist draws inspiration from their surroundings during this time. For this episode, one of our amazing 2021 Mississippi Invitational artists, Nicole Dikon (@nicoledikon ), takes us on a virtual tour of her studio. Viewers will learn more about her process with collage and woodcuts and see current works in progress. Sponsors: AT&T + Trustmark Video edited by @__blakebarnes

I was making a different kind of video when I started editing this. One about the process of making this York Street Mural. But then I began to love the two speeds of the clips going back and forth. I think a lot about speed, efficiency and time as it relates to labor, and our value as makers. I think about it even more now that AI created images and the conversation around AI surrounds me every day, especially living in San Francisco. I think it’s comical when folks ask me if I’m worried about AI taking my place, because it’s not possible. But I also think it’s sad the way that these image generating corporations steal artists labor in the name of progress or speed or affordability? … I made two paper installations in one month’s time that could have been printed, and also could have been laser cut. But I put my body to the work that it wanted to do. I asked my hands to figure out how to work with a new type of paper, and I thought through how these pieces would hang without falling and how to improve on my failures. I didn’t outsource my work to save time. I asked my body to do what it loves doing instead. Will I use a laser cutter in the future if the opportunity affords itself? Maybe. Probably. 
My body also deserves breaks from being hunched over big tables. But also, I’m healthy, able to move, able to yield an exacto knife with speed and precision and I’m proud of that. It’s okay to do things inconveniently and at a slower pace. It’s okay to draw with pencil instead of design on a computer. Maybe artwork can live outside of our screens. Perhaps the pencil drawings are safer now that everything is fair game online and can be stolen from us to make shittier versions for free. Any way. I just wanted to rant about the fact that we deserve slow processes and slow art and things made by hand, and things made by humans.

This Saturday, I’ll be in Point Reyes for the opening @galleryrouteone You can see this piece, “Equinox VIII” while you’re there! This work is a 36x36” woodcut monoprint on masa paper. 

I’m looking forward to connecting with other artists at the show and seeing this work in conversation with other artwork made by local artists. See you there!

It’s up!! This paper mural installation titled ‘While You’re Here’ is up until January 26th. After my last paper install for @yorkstreetsf the team @square asked me to create another window installation for the interim before their next pop up moves in. This piece is all about my favorite neighborhood in the city, The Mission! Here’s a little something I wrote about this piece, my practice and the space that I had the pleasure to install in. … ‘While You’re Here’ was created as a reflection of the quiet forms that shape some of the beauty in The Mission. Using hand-cut paper and frottage (a relief rubbing) taken directly from the square tile floor of this building, the work pulls texture and pattern from the site itself, allowing the architecture to become part of the image. My practice centers on form, memory, and place. Through layered shapes, repeated motifs, and subtle shifts in texture, the work explores how landscapes—both built and natural—hold traces of those who move through them. Here, abstraction becomes a way to honor familiarity: corners, thresholds, surfaces, and rhythms that often go unnoticed but deeply inform a sense of belonging. This storefront has lived many lives. Once home to the beloved neighborhood deli Lucca Ravioli Co., the space now hosts rotating pop-up shops—continuing a tradition of gathering, exchange, and neighborhood presence. This temporary installation was commissioned by Square as part of that ongoing evolution, with the intention of connecting the space back to its surroundings and history. … If you’re in the area and catch a glimpse see if you can spot of the neighborhood shapes this design was built with. Big thank you to @square for the project @yorkstreetsf for the first window iteration and connection fostering @kalaartinstitute for studio space to cut this giant paper @gomugomuno_ for being a great studio assistant 💕

Overseen at @yorkstreetsf , as a local pop up shop operate on their last day, artists come together slowly tape up the windows. What an artful way to say goodbye 🥹Thankful to the artists who create beauty for others.

New year around the corner and my resolution is to use the videos I always take of my promise and actually post them 🤪😅😂 Here is just a small piece of the printing process for this calendar. Of course there are a whole other set of moments that includes curation of each page and the binding, but you get the picture! Check out my last post for if you’re curious about the theme of this project! There are still a few left in this edition, if you would like to snag a copy, there’s a link in my bio! I’m shipping out orders this week!

It’s here! The calendar you never knew you needed!!! And most likely don’t actually need…but really want?! The Entropy Calendar is a handprinted and coil bound art work that reflects the 2026 calendar year. With two months per page, each month falls more and more out of alignment as the year progresses. Finally, a calendar that reflects how a year’s intentions and best laid plans can float away or fall out of expected trajectory, reminding us that we do not belong in our perfectly aligned boxes and that beauty can arrive and thrive in our chaos. Each page of this calendar is uniquely printed, with no two covers or pages being alike through out the entire edition.  Every page is printed with multicolor woodblock as the base layer and then printed with letterpress as the second layer. Edition size is small at only 15 signed copies.  These cuties were printed @kalaartinstitute in Berkeley. I’ll be selling these baby’s in person @campbellstreetstudios this Sunday from 12-4pm You can also purchase this baby on my store, link is in the bio.

I want to send out a big thank you to the community @kalaartinstitute for the opportunity to show this newer body of work of mine at their Milvia Window Display. Thank you to @sfcastillo Castillo and Josh Coolidge for helping to navigate and collaborate on the installation of this work. I make these objects in the studio and see the through line between things in my head but it’s lovely to be able to see everything together in one space for months at a time. Here is a write up on the thematics around these works including a poem I wrote and have been digesting throughout this body of work. I am the unbeliever meandering in fantasy  that I pray will become our future Field Notes is an installation that explores the garden labyrinth as both a psychological space and a symbolic foraging landscape for imagining new futures. At its center are two quiet figures: the Meanderer—lightfooted , adrift—and the Unbeliever—an edge dweller who challenges inherited ideas and harmful patterns. One wall features a triptych of hanging scrolls bearing a short poem that moves between doubt and hope; the other unfolds into a layered terrain of printed fragments, textiles, and foraged materials, tracing the gestures of wandering and reimagining. Together, the works suggest that transformation is not linear—but found in the pause, the turn, the quiet act of gathering If you would like to see the display, it will be up for another month or so in Berkeley on the corner of Milvia and Addison, 2100 Milvia St.

Just in awe of this new piece that’s come through our doors✨ Nicole Dikon’s layered printmaking channels the language of nature: landscape forms, textures, rhythm-all in harmony with form and color. This is one to see in person. 🧡 🎨 Nicole Dikon @dikonstudio 📏 Blockprint, framed glass, 44x30 #blockprint #framedart #readytohang #largeart #fineart

The closing section to this beautiful video @miaomiaonico made for me. This year has been so fruitful with all of the new projects and collaborations. I’m looking forward to sharing more of these projects in the weeks to come.