CURRENT Exhibition
DEAD BREAKFAST
DEAD BREAKFAST
Juliette Miller Herrera Nickle & Leon Alesi
Exhibition Dates: May 22, 2026 - June 20, 2026
Opening Reception: May 22nd, 7-10pm
Performance: June 8th - June 12th, 1pm-4pm
Artist talk: June 7th, 1pm
Celebration: Artist led tour June 15th, 7pm-10pm
Closing Reception: JUNE 20th, 7pm-10pm
Gallery Hours: AS LISTED, APPOINTMENTS AVAILABLE
Image: L: Leon Alesi, R: Juliette Nickle
ICOSA Collective is proud to present DEAD BREAKFAST, an exhibition of new works from Juliette Miller Herrera Nickle & Leon Alesi
Dead Breakfast requests a brief surrender.
A FAST BREAK before we are DEAD.
Working across installation, manipulated photography, collage, painting, performance, and found materials, the exhibition navigates the fragile act of sharing space. Each artist maintains their individual practice and aesthetic, allowing moments of convergence and tension to emerge organically. The result is both contained and sprawling: a collaged environment that challenges perception and embraces grit. A place where textures echo like ancestral gestures, language shifts form and silence becomes whole.
Dead Breakfast is discovery and dialogue while responding to modifications of our neighbourhood, social structure, and the spaces we inhabit. Our collected experience, both intimate and unsettled.
BIO:
Juliette Michelle Miller Herrera Nickle, a.k.a Juliette Nickle is a biracial, multidisciplinary artist, collectivist and curator, originator of Neu Bauhaus TRA$C0R3 futurist movement, co-founder of CollageHaus and a member of the ICOSA collective (Austin, Texas). Also currently serving as co-curator and board member at Mothership Studios (San Marcos, Texas), collective volunteer and former member and board member of Treasure City Thrift (Austin, Texas), Juliette has exhibited her work in Louisiana, California, Texas, Missouri, South Carolina and Wisconsin. Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, now residing in Austin, Texas, Juliette's artistic energy is fueled by Bauhaus Futurism. Growing up immersed in design, form, shape, fabrication, adhesion and scale. Juliette’s practice spans materiality, rendering, performance, mark-making, installation, collaging and collectivism, capturing a raw relationship to space, memory, and the worn industrial earthscape.
T.C.Nickle. Earthling Relic Circa 1980-2026
NEU BAUHAUS T7A$HC073 COMES FROM THE FUTURE C0RE YEAR 2733. SUBSUMED
IN EARTHLING LEAVINGS, THESE WORKS ARE TREASURED FOR BOLD EVIDENCE OF
SOCIETIES PAST, RELICS FROM STAGES OF INDUSTRIAL DOING AND REDOING.
BIO:
Leon Alesi is a self-taught artist working in photography, collage, and assemblage. Originally from New Jersey, he has called Austin, Texas, home for over 30 years. His work is both an archeological dig and a document of transitional situations investigating our spiritual, communal, and physical loss. Using his neighborhood as a reference guide for global realities, he records his personal experience for future archivists to consider. From 2012 to 2018 he co-curated and ran Blackbox, an in-house gallery space that promoted local talent. In 2018 he joined ICOSA with a focus on creating opportunities for the growing community of artists in Austin and furthering his artistic practice.
ICOSA Collective Presents: Artist in Silence
A week long Performance by Juliette M. Miller Herrera Nickle
June 8, 2026, 1-4PM – June 13, 2026, 1-4PM
ICOSA Collective is proud to announce Artist in Silence, a Quiet endurance performance by artist Juliette M. Miller Herrera Nickle. Taking place at ICOSA’s gallery space in Austin, this immersive experience will push the boundaries of endurance, silence, and the evolving relationship between artist and audience.
Drawing inspiration from the DEBT” by David Graeber, Nickle's performance meditates on the divine immaterial spaces, lineage, human life force, the infinite nothingness where all obligations reside. Over the course of one week, she will engage in an ongoing silence, exploring the quiet of human interaction in the creative process and art’s ability to facilitate presence across time and space.
The artist’s choice to sustain this silence over a full week, Monday through Friday, an enduring commitment of quiet contemplation of art communities, shared spaces and cultural legacies. Audiences are invited to participate, witness, and reflect on the dynamic of the artist-viewer relationship, celebrating art as a living, breathing being
Join us for this commitment to mediation and endurance. Attendees may drop in throughout the performance to engage this bold quiet connection to other imagined worlds.
Leon Alesi & Juliette M.M.H.Nickle
Dead Breakfast
Exhibition Dates: May 22, 2026- June 20, 2026
Opening Reception: May 22nd 7-10pm
Gallery Hours: Friday and Saturday, 12-6pm and by appointment
ICOSA Gallery
916 Springdale Rd, Bldg 2, #102
Austin, TX 78702
www.icosacollective.com