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Disappearing Trees Painting

Michael Nauert

United States

Painting, Gesso on Paper

Size: 10.5 W x 14 H x 0.1 D in

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The Forest series rests in a limbo state between romantic landscape and abstract expressionist painting. The brushstrokes coalesce as the forms of nature are beginning to take shape, but before any structure takes root the forms dissipate and fall back into abstract mark making. The painting then becomes a node of possibilities. The viewer then has a chance to engage their imaginative space with the work to discover the various possibilities, whether different appearances of nature (like the sublime landscape paintings), feelings refracted from shapes and colors (like the abstract marks of Kandinsky), combinations of nature and emotion (like the overwhelming spaces in Turner's work), and the many other possibilities beyond language that uncover the inner landscapes of the viewer. The compositions of The Forest series create a nesting space. The paintings cradle the viewer into an enclosed space that is partly built by the paint, but also partly built by the imagination of the viewer themselves. The tunnels lead the viewer into a space the mind is constantly putting together. The viewers imagined self within the space becomes the tool that creates the nest, like a bird constantly turning to place each twig around itself to create a customized nest according to its own body, the viewer's mind is constantly turning to define the space. This type of nest space harkens back to home, yet the paintings contain another space. Light beyond the borders of the forest remains unknown, the space beyond the home, the space of alterity. This resonates back to the natural forms falling apart back into abstract mark making. It takes the viewer back into the uncanny regions of the work, where imagination and infinite possibilities are captured and cycled through in a continuum of creating, revealing, and nesting. My hope is that through these various processes at play the viewer will encounter their inner landscapes of embodied space-time, memory, projected futures, imagination, and thought space.

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Painting:Gesso on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:10.5 W x 14 H x 0.1 D in

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Statement Slipping in and out of the familiar through abstract mark making, I draw parallels between nature and human nature within my paintings. My shapes coalesce into landscape and figure, eventually dissipating into abstract impressions. This limbo state creates a vortex for multiple forms, ideas, and shared memory. I do not plan my paintings because I sense them noetically. I discern the works passively as deja vu like memories. When visual ideas reveal themselves, they are not used as representations but as communication. What happens on the canvas never matches what I imagine. Discovering and manifesting a painting feels like I’m blind and being led by a river — I can discern the river in so many ways, but I can’t see the river. I intuitively perceive the painting the whole time, but I only see the painting once it’s complete. Bio Michael Nauert, born and working in Southern California, creates abstract oil paintings based on nature, resonance, and mind-space. Awarded with scholarships and grants to study at The School of the Art Institute, he received a BFA in 2017. He also studied at OxBow School of Art in 2015 and 2017. In 2014 Nauert was included in a group show at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, and was a finalist for Murakami’s Kaikai Kiki co. show in Japan. In 2016 he was featured in New American Paintings (Issue 125). Then in 2018 he had his showed with Young Space for his first time in New York. Last year Nauert was published in the 2019 summer edition of Art Maze Magazine, and was interviewed for Friend of the Artist Magazine and Floorr Magazine. Additionally, he showed at Torrence Art Museum in Run Straight Through where he focused on nature-space and painting as a figure. Currently he is focused on the integration of art within cycles of nature. He is designing and constructing an outdoor studio space as well as traveling in his mobile art studio into nature to create this work.

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