Natalie Obermaier

After graduating magna cum laude from Philadelphia’s Drexel University with a degree in Photography, L.A. based artist Natalie Obermaier moved to Seattle where she worked alongside acclaimed photographer, Jock Sturges. Working in the darkroom five days a week for three years, she mastered the craft of traditional printing, while also managing his studio. Her early bodies of work in black and white film are soulful and classic, showing a natural and deep connection with the people she photographs. Currently Obermaier has turned her attention to hand-cut collage, sourcing her materials primarily from the glossy pages of women’s fashion magazines.


Coalescing is a series of collages made in response to the incessant onslaught of mass media and pressures of mainstream beauty standards found within. Women’s fashion magazines in particular stand at a crossroads of cult, consumerism and the unattainable image. By re-appropriating and deconstructing those glossy pages something truer, hand-made and authentic can be expressed. The resulting juxtapositions seek to remind one of the visual and psychological manipulations abound in advertising while also creating a new dialogue in response. Coalescing manipulates the manipulated as both r...

Magna Cum Laude Bachelor of Science in Photography from Drexel University

As well as the real world learning that comes from lighting sets for incredibly inspiring people like:
Mark Seliger
David La Chapelle
Jora Frantzis
Charlotte Rutherford
Steve McCurry
Joe Carlson
Tim Damon
Roger Snider
Jim Haeffner
Saam Gabbay
Brain Garland
John Roe
Oskar Bakke
Adam Rose
Kathryna Hancock
and so many more

EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLICATIONS
Exhibited:
Individual Shows:
“Coalescing” Natalie Obermaier Collages, Full Circle Gallery, Baltimore MD, January 2019
“Coalescing” Natalie Obermaier Collages, Lost Art LA with Sloan Projects, LA, December 2018
Photo of the Day Exhibit(2013), Sloan Projects, Bergamot Station, LA CA, July 2016
“Coalescing”, Paste Gallery, Venice CA, March 2015
“Coalescing”, Electric Lodge, Venice CA November 2015
Photo of the Day(2012), Lincoln Space, Los Angeles CA April 2013
Photo of the Day (2011), The Gallery at 74 Market, Venice CA January 2012
“Indehiscent Fruit" Room For Painting, Room For Paper, San Francisco, CA March 2009
GroundWorks, Los Angeles, CA June 2006
Vespa, Baltimore, MD April 2003
La Colombe, Philadelphia, PA April 2001
Group Shows:
“Moved to Act” Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA January 11 – February 12, 2020
“Moved to Act” Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, Providence, RI, Oct 15- Nov 13, 2020
“Surface Tension” University Art Gallery, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, CA, January 9 - 31, 2020
“Cimarron National Works On Paper,” Oklahoma State University, OK Sept 9 - Oct 10, 2019
“Random Similarities” Luann Carra Gallery, Baltimore MD, August 1- September 1, 2019
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