
Nym Pedersen Around Town

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to Nym Around Town
Nym Pedersen was a visual artist in the Charlottesville area who died in March of 2024 after a quick battle with an aggressive cancer. Nym Around Town is our way of celebrating his life and his work.
The celebrations will begin on August 17th 2024 on what would have been his 65th birthday and will continue throughout the rest of the year at different venues. Please look below for a current schedule of shows and events around town.

a message from Nym's wife.
"Nym around town"
Nym Pedersen: August 17th 1959 - March 9th 2024
In celebration of what he left us with
A quiet man, prolific in his work, devoted to his human and animal family, Nym embodied strong ethics; he declined to sell his soul.
He expressed his inner journeys of intertwining emotions and experiences of the world around him and afar through different mediums, styles and approaches.
A great sense of humor and growing appreciation for the simple life on the farm, was our shared joy of these past years.
After his untimely passing I spent many weeks in stillness, emerged in the work, left behind. Hundreds of drawings, notes, paintings...some of it I had never seen in our more than 26 years of marriage.
The tapestry of his inner life is almost too much to bare - but we feel a call to share.
From demonic to peaceful to visionary, each a heartbeat of his human experience.
At the end of his life, humbleness had taken the place of wanting to be recognized as an "artist". He was content in creating; reflecting and sharing with those who felt drawn into one or the other imagery
"Nym around town" is our Birthday gift to him and likewise creative souls - tortured or gentle - one heartbeat at a time.
In the last months of his life, Nym almost exclusively reread all of Jose Ortega Y Gasset's books.
..."And it is that life is not something that we have bestowed on ourselves; rather, we find it precisely when we find ourselves"
We Thank the galleries and businesses who honor Nym by displaying some of his work.
Allegra von Studnitz
artwork.
for more work, visit Nym's Instagram


