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Email PageWhere She Stops
September 7, 2007- October 13, 2007
Reception: September 7, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Natalie Frank
Mitchell-Innes & Nash
534 W 26th St Natalie Frank The Stammerer (2007) |
Natalie Frank’s paintings explore relationships of power as they function within issues of identity, sexuality, religion, and history. The personal, political, and theatrical collide in her representations of the beautiful and the grotesque.
Frank’s paintings are peopled by figures of the in-between -- characters ill-defined by gender and sexuality, reality and fantasy, presence and absence. Her life-sized figures assume a variety of roles, both allegorical and highly personal, which recur throughout the paintings. Blurring the lines between the perverse and the everyday, Frank’s paintings engage the viewer as a complicit voyeur into their strange reality.
New York-based painter Natalie Frank was born in Austin Texas in 1980. She earned an M.F.A. in visual arts at Columbia University’s School of the Arts in 2006 and holds a B.A. in studio art from Yale University. In 2003-2004, she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for study at the National Academy of Fine Art in Oslo, Norway. In 1997 and 1999, Frank attended the Slade School in London, and in 2001 the École des Beaux Arts in Paris.
This will be Frank’s first solo exhibition at Mitchell-Innes & Nash. She has been included in various group exhibitions in the U.S. and abroad, including “Aggression of Beauty” at Arndt and Partner in Berlin this spring. Natalie Frank is represented by Mitchell-Innes & Nash.
Art Reviews of Where She Stops
| New York Times July 14, 2007 | Martha Schwendener | "...The real friction here comes from seeing a painter in her 20s exhibiting works in Chelsea that look like work you would see in traditionalist strongholds on 57th Street. The implication is that there’s something radical in Ms. Frank’s approach to painting vaguely allegorical tableaus with dwarfs and foreshortened figures...." |
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