natashart studio

New Website

2012-01-25T20:35:00.003-06:00

I have finally built a new website to showcase my artwork! I will continue to add to it. You can view my latest work and different series of drawings, paintings and mixed media collages as well as doll sculptures...Just click on the title of this post to go right to your website or type in my website address in your browser:
www.natashart.com

My Artist Facebook Page, Like Me on Facebook!

2011-11-29T23:41:00.003-06:00

Please check out my public artist Facebook page, link aboveLik
Photo of my mixed media piece in the exhibition I just announced... For more info, see previous post...

AIR Gallery Group Exhibition

2011-11-28T21:19:00.001-06:00

I will have a piece in this large group show. Here is the info and link to their press release.

This is the link to my website in progress for the image of my work that will be exhibited in this show:
link to my image in the exhibition

The opening is scheduled for the evening of Thursday, Dec. 1, 6-9 pm.
The AIR Gallery is located at 111 Front St. #228, Brooklyn, NY 11201.
Their phone number is 212-255-6651.

Generations VIII
A biennial benefit exhibition & fundraising collaboration between A.I.R. Gallery & Women’s World Banking.

A.I.R. Gallery offers you the opportunity to preview and purchase some of the art works featured in this year’sGenerations VIII fundraiser exhibition. Below is a small selection of the over one hundred works that will be on view in the gallery from November 30th to December 21st. All the pieces are original works of art from artists across the world, priced affordably.

This year 15% of all sales will be going to Women's World Banking, a New York non-profit which addresses issues of global poverty and inequality through the economic empowerment of women and girls.

You can inquire if a work is still available or purchase a piece by sending an e-mail to info@airgallery.org
or call A.I.R. Gallery at 212.255.6651.

http://www.airgallery.org/images/Generations_VIII_PR.pdf

Two New Drawings!

2010-02-28T13:57:00.000-06:00

warrior dolls: new work

2010-02-17T14:34:00.000-06:00

More Images From New Series

2009-03-03T12:06:00.000-06:00

March - April News

2009-03-03T11:59:00.003-06:00

The show at Latham Watkins was a great success and I anticipate being featured in their summer group show as I have 5 pictures from the show on loan in one of their conference rooms (lawyers out there, if you get to Latham for some reason, check out the conference rooms on the conference room floor...)

In April, last weekend of April, I will participate once again in the Tribeca Open Artists' Studio Tour (TOAST). The participating artists for this year should be up soon on their website. See link in this post.

Enclosed are several works from my new series which as yet does not have a title beyond the working title: Self-Portraits: Girls, Leaves and Insects.

Flower Paintings

2008-09-30T08:52:00.003-05:00

To see image of some flower paintings, three of which are on exhibit at Latham Watkins:
click on the title of this post or go to this link:
http://www.natashart.com/concordia.html

The first one, a self portrait with flower, the second one, a large painting with yellow background, and the last one, a smaller size painting, are the ones exhibited at Latham Watkins.

All flower paintings in the show are oil and sand on canvas or linen. Some are also oil paintings with other media, such as collage elements.

Other Images of Works in the Exhibition

2008-09-30T08:42:00.000-05:00

All three, media: charcoal, ink, pastel crayon, pencil and conte crayon on paper

Solo Exhibition at Latham Watkins!

2008-09-30T08:28:00.003-05:00

Inner Landscapes and Flower Portraits: Sept. through December 2008
on view at Latham Watkins lawfirm.
The show consists of 43 works: 23 framed works on paper and 20 works on canvas, drawings, paintings and collages. All work is for sale.

Artist Statement for the Exhibition:

When I began my journey as an artist at age 19, drawing was my first love,
my salvation, a meditation. Through drawing I came to painting, first using
paper as my surface, then moving to canvas. The Flower Paintings series is
an exploration--of oil paint and the enjoyment and constant challenges of
that medium, and of portraiture, and the relationship between portraits and time, images of impermanence. The flowers posed for me in all phases of life from freshly cut to dried up and dead.

The Inner Landscapes are self-portraits, landscapes of my psyche, and a
return to what inspired me about drawing. These inner landscape drawings and paintings/collages have gone through three phases, and continue to evolve. The more I work on them, the more I find revealed about the effects of the city of New York on my self, my psyche, my identity. Layering these “cities” of my
imagination, building and painting and drawing on top of old discarded
images, pieces of text--all of this reflects my relationship with my native
city, including, most recently, the effect of living a few blocks from the
World Trade center until 9/11/01 and returning to live there again as this
American ruin goes through its many phases towards rebuilding. Metaphorically, the narrative of my inner life is intertwined with the life of the city of New York as I have known it. I came upon my inner landscapes through a process of exploring line, shape and color and I am constantly surprised by what forms from my process. The meaning of drawing for me is to travel in uncharted territories and
continue, sometimes doubling back and adding to old memories, like an old
temple ruin, where new grass and flowers grow through and among broken
pieces of a building.

(A note on dating works: As I worked on the Inner Landscape series, stopping and starting pieces, using old pieces on top of new ones, writing the date each time I went back to a piece became a kind of ritual and integrally connected to the themes I work with. As I do not usually title my works, the dates become a part of the “Untitled”, a further way of categorizing and describing my process.)

Most recent journal drawings...

2008-05-16T00:38:00.002-05:00

And now we end this mid May 2008 studio visit with some more journal drawings.

My Current Journal...

2008-05-16T00:33:00.003-05:00

This is the cover of the one I carry around now, begun recently.

Journal Drawings

2008-05-16T00:28:00.003-05:00

I think of journal drawings as a place to let myself wander around and see where I am led by the process and the materials. Recent materials used in my journals are: pencil, pens in metallic and bright colors, ballpoint pen, collage, especially writing wripped from various sources, ordinary office supplies like post its, memos, white out and most exciting-- staples!

This first image is from my last journal, drawing started on April 8. Then I added elements and finished it on April 23...

Inner Landscape: First Painting with Drawing

2008-05-15T23:10:00.004-05:00

This painting/collage is a work in progress, still unfinished. I started it with the intention of making a self-portrait as I do every year on my birthday and tried to put my baby in the picture as well. When I decided it was not working, I did my birthday self-portrait on a smaller canvas and reworked this canvas to be another collage inner landscape. I left it for at least a month and then, after working on many of the new drawings shown here where I was using the stapler and putting together two or three drawings and then turning them into one, one day, I think it was April 21, I had a very special moment, one of those exciting moments during a series that I remember as a turning point. I suddenly had the impulse to take one of the new layered drawings and staple it onto the canvas that I still had not finished. I got very excited about this new development and then my big stapler stopped working, so I left it to continue later. I have not yet worked more on this peice but I see it as yet another layering in the evolution of this Inner Landscape series. I will write about my observations about the latest evolutions in the next post...
Size of canvas: 12 inches by 36 inches

Inner Landscape, fifth drawing

2008-05-15T22:56:00.002-05:00

Size: 8 3/4 by 22 inches

Inner Landscape, fourth drawing

2008-05-15T22:42:00.004-05:00

The first image is a detail of the drawing, and the second image is the full drawing, made up of two pieces of paper. They started as two separate drawings and were later put together to make one drawing...

Size: 8 3/4 inches by 22 inches

Inner Landscape Series, Third Drawing

2008-05-12T22:38:00.002-05:00

Inner Landscape Series, Second Drawing

2008-05-12T22:25:00.001-05:00

New Work: Inner Landscape Series, First drawing

2008-05-12T22:03:00.000-05:00

These are the most recent images of my "Inner Landscape Series" which have developped and changed over the past months. These images are of one drawing, top and then three images of details from the drawing. Mixed media, ink and paint, pencil and pastel, staples and collage on paper. Size: about 8.5 inches high by 22 inches wide.

Great TOAST weekend! Thanks for your visits!

2007-04-30T22:33:00.000-05:00

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!

Studio Address for TOAST...

2007-04-26T13:40:00.000-05:00

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

more new work...

2007-04-24T20:03:00.000-05:00

another new drawing!

2007-04-24T12:32:00.000-05:00

Welcome to my art blog!

2007-04-24T10:55:00.000-05:00

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...