Nils Hasche-Vásquez, born in Spokane, WA, of Chilean and German descent, formerly worked for New York Department of Education as a Full-time Art teacher. Hasche-Vásquez graduated with his Masters of Art Education from the School of Visual Arts in July 2010 and received his Bachelor of Fine Art in Studio Arts at the State University of New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology in 2008. Hasche-Vásquez has also worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and completed a variety of art internships including: commercial artist studio, Silver Hill Atelier, the Educational Alliance Art School, and The Dalton School. He has also curated exhibitions at the Educational Alliance Art School, the German Consulate Building with Friends of the Freie Universität Berlin in New York City, and the Barnstable Comedy Club.

In the past, family and cultural history has exercised strong influences on Nils Hasche-Vásquez’s artwork. Hasche-Vásquez’s art has been concerned with the juxtaposition of differing cultures and ideas as well as, deconstructions of various forms of authority and revealing and concealing of layered visual information.

Nils Hasche-Vásquez explored the authority of the image by experimenting with colors that normally would not be associated with objects or concepts he paints. His sculptural and installation based works are conceptual in their approach and explore the deconstruction of socio-political and gender authority. In other instances, Hasche-Vásquez experiments using different materials such as, burlap, denim, and vinyl.

Nils Hasche-Vásquez’s current work entitled New York City Windowscapes is a group of paintings representing an ongoing collection of artwork that began as an unexpected by-product of Hasche-Vásquez’s Masters thesis about adolescents’ responses to a windows in painting themed lesson. This series originated in 2010 from depictions of personal views witnessed and synthesized by the artist Nils Hasche-Vásquez and photographed original images of archetypical views of New York City from and through windows. These images purposely comprise closely cropped dwellings crammed together that have unexpected little surprises, moments of glory, and little details that only some one who has lived in New York City or has spent a significant amount of time there might observe and appreciate. Hasche-Vásquez’s windowscapes purposely tend to stray away from iconographical references to tourist attractions.

Nils Hasche-Vásquez also paints wet on wet with acrylics and collage elements allowing the interplay between color, texture, and scale to become it’s own compositional dialogue. The influence of growing up on the Pacific Northwest also find its way into Nils Hasche-Vásquez’s work through an interest in light and lushness. Some artists Nils feels have influenced his work are Chilean painter Cecilia Boisier, Henri Matisse, Robert Rauschenberg, and Edward Hopper.