COURTNEY NICHELLE COBLE
Location:
Leesburg, VA, USA
ARTIST BIO
Courtney Nichelle Coble is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily in epoxy resin sculpture. Her practice explores identity as an internal structure shaped by endurance, boundary, and sustained transformation. Through restrained sculptural portraiture, she examines how presence is formed under pressure and how resilience manifests without spectacle.
Coble’s work resists immediate interpretation, inviting sustained engagement rather than explanation. Materials are layered and compressed to hold tension, allowing psychological weight to remain present without resolution. Rather than offering fixed narratives, her sculptures function as sites of reflection—where identity is negotiated, protected, and continuously reshaped.
Her ongoing body of work, Mind·Full·Ness®, reflects a long-term inquiry into authenticity, internal authority, and becoming. The sculptures are compact yet dense, encouraging viewers to slow down and encounter meaning through duration and attention.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My work investigates identity as an internal architecture—formed through pressure, repetition, and boundary rather than outward expression. I am interested in what is held rather than what is performed: endurance, restraint, and the quiet negotiations that shape presence over time.
Each sculpture functions as a container for lived experience rather than a fixed narrative. Materials are layered to create density and tension, allowing discomfort or imbalance to exist without resolution. Strength, in this context, is not dramatic—it is sustained.
The work invites viewers to slow down and remain with what feels unresolved. Rather than providing answers, the sculptures create space for reflection, allowing meaning to surface gradually through attention and proximity.
