Nicolas Party is a contemporary painter and sculptor. He uses bright, playful colors that connect his work to Expressionism and Fauvism, and he creates immersive environments for his exhibitions that tap into both the new and the familiar. Party often creates wall murals as part of his installations, and his work also tows the line between figuration and abstraction. Pastel is Party’s signature medium, and it allows him to explore dreamy and surrealist qualities in his work. Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1980, he lives and works in Brussels and New York. Early in his career, Party worked as a 3D animator. This digital work influenced his later paintings because, as Party explains, “we’re so used to seeing computer-generated...