Monday, April 30, 2007

Great TOAST weekend! Thanks for your visits!

A big thank you to everyone who came down to Tribeca on Fri., Sat. and Sun. and stopped by my studio for the art walk.
It was a great event. I was very pleased with the turnout and with the reception of my work, old and new. The" Inner Landscape Series" that I've been posting on this blog was very popular and well received. I sold work from the 90's as well as work from a few years ago and my latest work, including several Flower oil paintings and some of the Inner Landscapes, so that was wonderful to have my work go out into the world to be hung on people's walls where it will have new life! It was very gratifying to see the work disperse to be seen elsewhere.

All in all, I was very happy to see so many familiar loyal and supportive friends and family as well as many many enthusiastic people I had never met before. It's wonderful to see people taking the time to come down to Tribeca and engage with the work and meet the artists. Whoever says painting is dead needs to come to one of these events! I had some wonderful engaging and thought provoking conversations with visitors off the street who were serious, thoughtful and respectufl as well as curious. The great thing about an event like this for the artist, I find, is that I get a chance to talk to the public about my work and observe their engagement with it. Very different from having m work exhibited in a gallery, where a crowded opening is one's only chance to see the work and the viewer interacting...

I guess what I'm trying to express is the wonder of experiencing the work come alive and be part of a dialogue with the viewer and to engage in that dialogue too...

So thank you all for visiting and if you were unable to attend the event, please contact me to arrange for a private studio visit! I'm in the studio almost everyday and have flexible hours for visits...

I also welcome comments on this blog!


Thursday, April 26, 2007

Studio Address for TOAST...

Hi and thank you for visiting my blog...
In case you are planning to come by my studio this Friday, Sat. or Sun. April 27-29
for the Tribeca Art Walk, here is my studio address:
368 Broadway, betw. Franklin and White Streets
3rd Floor, number 307

My studio is conveniently located a few blocks south of Canal St., near
most major subway stations.
Please email me for further directions if you need them.
email address: natashart@earthlink.net

Thanks and hope to see you there.
My studio is open for TOAST:
Fri. April 27, 6-8pm
Sat. April 28 1-6pm and until 7pm for invited friends
Sun. April 29 1-6pm

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

more new work...



another new drawing!

Welcome to my art blog!




Welcome to the natashart blog! I am creating this blog the week before the beginning of TOAST, the Tribeca Open Artist Studio Tour, for visitors to preview some of my newest work on paper before coming to visit my studio.

Days and Hours of TOAST:
I will be opening my studio this Friday, April 27 from 6-8pm, Saturday, April 28 from 1-7pm and Sunday, April 29 from 1-6pm.
(Official weekend TOAST hours are 1-6pm. On Sat. evening I will extend hours to 7pm and have a small "party" in my studio from 5-7pm with wine and some refreshments for friends to enjoy!
For more info on TOAST, go to:
http://www.toastartwalk.com/cgi-bin/index.pl
and for my statement and images on their website:
http://www.toastartwalk.com/cgi-bin/artist.pl?aid=315

This year my focus for TOAST is to show new work: new oil paintings from the Flowers series which I have been working on for the past year and a half, and new works on paper, a series of "abstract" meditative drawings that are reminiscent of fantasy landscapes/cityscapes, of which this image above is an example. The other focus is a sale on older work, whose prices will be 100$ and lower, ranging between about $20 and $100. New work will be priced higher than this...

I hope to see you all this weekend and please feel free to comment on the images. I will be posting quite a few daily until Friday...

The above images were done this month, inspired by drawings I made on a recent trip to New Mexico. The first one was created on the trip. They are both Untitled, mixed media on paper: ink, acrylic, gouache, pencil, pen...