1000 piece puzzle featuring the artwork of Nicole Appel.

Nicole Appel’s “Patchwork Portraits” represent people non-traditionally, as a collection of the things that they like or care about. Pakistani Truck Art was done as a gift for Jerry Saltz, the Pulitzer Prize winning art critic who has long championed her work. With images of Dante’s Inferno, elaborately decorated Pakistani trucks, and even the Drive-By Truckers, this “portrait” of Saltz references his purgatorial years as a long haul truck driver after he had abandoned his career as an artist.

Nicole Appel lives in Queens, NY and works at Brooklyn’s LAND Studio and Gallery. She exhibits regularly at the Outsider Art Fair in NYC, and her work was featured in the critically acclaimed show, “The Way I See It: Selections from the KAWS Collection” at the Drawing Center, in N.Y.C.