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Welcome: If you just got here through the link from the TOAST website and want to see my real artist website, please follow this link! You will get more of an overview of my different series of work in a variety of media and more information about the work and about me, so please visit! Here is the link: http://www.natashart.com

New Work Now on My Artist Website!

Hi, Just in time for TOAST, I have loaded 11 images of my new series, "Scribble Collage Self-Portraits", works on paper in pen and collage, to my artist website. There are more images not yet loaded, but you can see them in person at TOAST, this coming Friday, 6-8:30 pm and Sat. and Sun. from1-6 pm. Here's the link to view the new work: http://natashart.com/section/302567_Scribble_Collage_Self_Portraits.html

More New Work!

Scribble Collage Series:

Newest Artwork: Scribble Collages!

I've finally started some new work that is not connected to my Inner Landscapes!

These sort of self-portraits are in the form of scribble drawings with collage pieces of patterns and images of things. Then there is the drawing of a face that I was doing about 2 years ago which has reappeared in these works on paper. I started out very small and have been working my way up to bigger ones. Here are a few of them taken with my iPhone:
To view the whole image you gave to click on each image as the files are big!

Big News! My Doll Sculpture in a Local Paper

Today I found one of my doll sculptures in the TriBeCa Tribune, my neighborhood paper, featured in an article about the TriBeCa Artist Studio Tour. It's on page 38 do you have to go to the link and page through to find it or if you live down here check it out at your local store. It's free.
Here's the link and I'll post the picture of the doll on this blog post:
http://www.issuu.com/tribecatrib/docs/tribeca_trib_april

Tribeca Open Artists Studio Tour 2012!

It's that time of year again! Spring is in the air!
Mark your calendars for TOAST, the last weekend in April:
I am participating Friday, Saturday and Sunday but not Monday.
When: Friday, April 27, 6-9 pm, Saturday, April 28, 1-6 pm, Sunday, April 29, 1-6 pm
Where: my studio, 368 Broadway, Suite 307, third floor, between Franklin and White Streets.
How: near most subway lines (6, N, R, Q, A, C, E, M, Z, 1, 2, 3)
Why: It's free and you get a peek into the artists studios and see their latest work!

Please spread the word!
Kid friendly!
Check out my website to see my latest work:
http://natashart.com
Here are a few images of recent work from different series. The first three are Untitled Scribble Drawing and Collage, sort of slelf-portraits and the last is an image of two of my dolls.
To see the whole image click on it!

New Website

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!

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

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!

warrior dolls: new work

More Images From New Series

March - April News

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

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

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

Solo Exhibition at Latham Watkins!

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...

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

My Current Journal...

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

Journal Drawings

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

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