LORE
JULY 11 - 31
NICHOLE MONTGOMERY
Opening Second Friday, July 11, 5-8pm
Continuing through July 31, 2025.
Gallery hours after opening: Thursdays 5-8pm, Saturdays 1-5pm
Liggett Studio is a located at 314 S Kenosha, Tulsa, OK 74120
LORE: Otherworldly with the Familiar
B.1978 George, Oregon | Tulsa, Oklahoma based visionary artist Nichole Montgomery
Nichole Montgomery is a generational, self-taught artist raised in Oregon’s Mount Hood wilderness—an environment as emotionally rich as it was visually raw. She comes from a long line of traditional women artists, but her hometown shaped her just as deeply. The small mountain community where she was raised pulsed with creativity: musicians, woodworkers, mechanics, and visual artists all shared a cultural value for making. Art wasn’t a luxury—it was how people communicated. Creativity was embedded in the school system, reinforced by mentors like Mr. Brown, who helped generations of students find their artistic voice.
While the women in her family mastered classical forms, Montgomery developed a different voice: quiet, obsessive, and wildly imaginative. As a child, she consumed National Geographic, PBS, and novels full of folklore, mythology, horror, and fantasy—fueling a visual language that began in the margins of notebooks and eventually evolved into her distinct multi-mixed-media process.
A U.S. Army veteran, Montgomery’s journey includes raising children as a single mother, navigating family court, and surviving PTSD, chronic pain, and military sexual trauma (MST). Through it all, art remained her grounding mechanism. What began as silent, repetitive linework to hold herself together became a lifelong practice. Her current work blends neuro-inspired mark-making with layered paint pens, digital elements, and tactile surfaces that resist passive viewing.
LORE is her most personal and ambitious solo exhibition in over two decades of exhibiting. Featuring over 40 never-before-seen canvases ranging from 12 x 12 to 30 x 40 inches—each framed and ready to hang—the collection is a visceral exploration of mythology, survival, and the blurred lines between fantasy and memory. Within these works are dragons, oracles, Disney shadows, gods and goddesses, historical figures, and invented beings that feel both timeless and deeply human.
Montgomery’s pieces don’t just hang—they speak. LORE invites viewers not just to look, but to linger. These are works meant to be felt—through texture, through story, through the echoes of a woman who turned silence into narrative.
-Nichole Mongomery
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Website: NicholeMontgomery.com
WORKSHOP: Neurographic Art with Nichole Montgomery
July 20, 2025, 1pm – 3pm, $50.00
Neurographic art embodies both simplicity and creativity, transforming the act of drawing into a therapeutic practice. It offers a personal and accessible means of exploration that can promote emotional healing, self-awareness, and mindfulness. If grounding oneself through a non-addictive practice is possible, why not give it a try?