I’m elated to be included in Issue 27 of Art Maze Magazine, curated by Karen Hesse Flatow of Hesse Flatow Gallery. Visit Art Maze Magazine’s website for more information or to order a copy.
Saltonstall Foundation Fellowship
I’m thrilled to attend the Saltonstall Foundation artist residency in June. I will be living and making art in Ithaca, NY for one week as part of the foundation’s parent residency. More on the fellowship here.
That’s me on the top left in black and white! Photo credit: Pierre Le Hors
NYFA Hall of Fame Benefit
I am honored to participate in this year’s NYFA Hall of Fame Benefit which recognizes visual, literary, and performing artists who have received NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowships and have had a profound impact on the arts through their creative work, and patrons of the arts who have championed the value of the arts in the world around us. I was the recipient of a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in 2017, and was pleased to donate the following collage to raise money for an organization I greatly admire. Bidding continues through April 7, 2022.
Untitled (Index of Form), 2014. Paper collage, 25.4 x 19.5 inches
New collage series available on upriseart.com
“I often reimagine the things I encounter everyday and wonder, how can objects open up new possibilities? These collages represent prospects for new domestic objects. They serve as open-ended learning tools, nameless storage devices, and implements that hover between utility and fantasy. I begin with the form of something tangible which then goes through a process of abstraction and invention. As I cut paper and layer shapes, I work towards a balance between form, color, specificity and the unknown.”
My new series of collages is now available on upriseart.com. For inquiries, contact advisors@upriseart.com.
dieFirma Holiday Market, Nov. 18–Dec. 18, 2021
The Holiday Market showcases makers from the U.S. and Japan working in a variety of materials.
The dieFirma Holiday Market will be open from November 18th–December 18th, on view alongside site-specific installations by celebrated Japanese photographers Osamu Kanemura and Hiroko Komatsu.
Hours: Wednesday–Saturday, 11am–5:30pm
ALLISON HALTER (straw and found branches)
ANNE PETERSON (quilts)
BILL MILLER (vintage linoleum)
HATORI (leather)
KIKUHU (soy wax, cotton)
LAUREN HURLBURT (paint)
NATALIE BEALL (paper)
SAMMA (metal)
YAMAI (natural dyes)
YURI HIMURO (textile)
Furniture provided by Karimoku.
2021 Nicholas Buhalis Award
I am honored to have received the Nicholas Buhalis Award from the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum. This award was established at WAAM in 2012 in order to honor painter Nicholas Buhalis (1929-1994). This year’s awardee was selected by the curators of Radius 50, Alyson Baker and Candice Madey of River Valley Arts Collective.
Installation view, Radius 50, Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, 2021
Mohonk Arts + Upstate Art Weekend
Mohonk Arts Invitational 1: FANTASY
Curated by Shanti Grumbine, Todd Kelly, and Alex Gingrow
August 27, 28, and 29, 11am-6pm
186 Mohonk Road, High Falls
Participating artists:
Natalie Beall, Amelia Biewald, Sam Bittman, Alta Buden, Aimee Burg, Melissa Dadourian, Maureen Drennan, Ruth Freeman, Jess Gaddis, Paul Gagner, Alex Gingrow, Shanti Grumbine, Jessie Henson, Beth Humphrey, Martine Kaczynski, Laura Kaufman, Todd Kelly, Niki Kriese, Anna Kruse, Ken Landauer, Niki Lederer, Rita Leduc, Rena Leinberger, Elisa Lendvay, Alison McNulty, Megan Pahmier, Ruby Palmer, Courtney Puckett, Amy Ritter, Mandolyn Rosen, Michelle Rosenberg, Michael Scoggins, Suzy Sureck, Amy Talluto, and Yage Wang
Radius 50 opens July 31 at WAAM
Radius 50
July 30 – September 12, 2021
Woodstock Artists Association & Museum
Radius 50 is an exhibition of works by artists living and working within 50 miles of Woodstock. Of the 172 submissions for this exhibition, jurors Alyson Baker and Candice Madey of River Valley Arts Collective chose works by 13 artists who are responding to and reflecting on diverse aspects of the rural environments in which they live. The artists bring to bear the influence of their immediate landscape in both materiality and subject matter with local geography, histories, traditions, and natural resources forming the context for a broader dialogue about the relationship between artist and place.
EXHIBITING ARTISTS
Natalie Beall, Irja Boden, Kathy Greenwood, Shanti Grumbine, Brece Honeycutt, Martine Kaczynski, Alison McNulty, Tony Moore, Ralph Mosley, Linda Stillman, Joy Taylor, Victoria van der Laan, Yage Wang
Opening Reception: July 31, 4–6pm
28 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY 12498
UTILITY SUITE artist book release
Available now from Miniature Garden Publications–UTILITY SUITE: a book of cut paper collages made by Natalie Beall between 2018–2021. Edition of 75.
Who Really Cares? at The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz, July 7 – November 14, 2021
The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz announces its annual juried exhibition, “Hudson Valley Artists: Who Really Cares?” will be curated by Helen Toomer, and it will feature a diverse group of more than twenty-five local artists, chosen from over 380 applications for the fourteenth annual Hudson Valley Artists exhibition.
It has been a year of reckoning, of questioning, of emotional and physical turmoil. We have been separated from, and confined with, our loved ones. This exhibition reflects a fractured year and the toll that both the minutiae and the monumental has had on us all.
This has been a challenging time. For many of us, an overwhelming amount of painful news was consumed and experienced from within our own homes, where the daily battle between being thankful for our health and angry at social injustices and isolation from loved ones, has challenged our mental health.
The pandemic, the fight for racial justice, the trappings of domesticity, the wonder of escapism, expressions of queerness and otherness, and gratitude for art are all present here. The artwork is almost all representational; you see figures, houses, people, places, things, animals and objects, striving to be present, seen, felt, and heard.
This exhibition is a snapshot of this time, intended to spark conversations, connect people, and provide moments of reflection and hope. So we ask you to stand still and listen to Marvin Gaye’s beautiful voice, his words, and ask yourself “Who Really Cares?”
Exhibiting artists: Sharon Bates | Natalie Baxter & Julia Norton | Sean Bayliss | Natalie Beall | Vernon M. Byron III | Randy Calderone | Maureen Drennan | Jen Dwyer | Echo Goff | Carl Grauer | Norman Magnusson | Katrina Majkut | Christopher E. Manning | Maeve McCool | Patrick Meagher | Paul Akira Miyamoto | Ocean Morisset | Liz Nielsen | Richard Pantell | Gina Randazzo | Ransome | Macon Reed | Marcy Rosewater | Kristen Schiele | Renee Stanko | Amelia Tolke & Andrea Miller | Karen Whitman
Untitled (Index of Function) prints featured in Chango & Co. Interior Design
It’s always fun to see my work out in the world.
Domestic Interiors: Virtual Exhibition at Stay Home Gallery
A re-nesting occurs as our nature inclines us to adapt quickly, we find ourselves turning our new cages back into the cozy homes we once loved. Rearranging, cleaning behind furniture, and noticing parts of our homes we haven't seen before, we both evolve and revert with this exercise as we find a new way to live by adopting an old one.
View works the exhibition here.
Utility Suite covered in Art New England Magazine
Art New England, September/October 2019
Utility Suite: Natalie Beall
Standard Space - Sharon, CT - standardspace.net - August 30–September 29, 2019
What are the interior lives of the furniture that we live with? Natalie Beall’s solo show, Utility Suite, at Standard Space offers a glimpse into an imagined world where objects move beyond their functionality. Beall mines thrift stores, antique shops and discarded curbside items around New York City and within her small town in upstate New York for items that form the springboard for her work. In the living room of her home, a glimmer on the edge of a heater grate caught her attention. Stripping away layers of paint, Beall unearthed its copper base. This grate became the subject of one of her reductive collages as well as a wall sculpture composed, in part, from gray felt floor pads. Both are included in Beall’s exhibition which also features around a dozen similar collages–all Untitled, sized roughly 25.4 x 19.5 inches, and vertical in orientation–alongside two other wall sculptures.
On Beall’s website, she includes examples of her source imagery, some of which have seemingly precise (often defunct) purposes such as a cast iron receipt spike or a shelf with a peculiar silhouette. Beall sketches these found objects, which she then transforms into portraits of unrecognizable, unnameable objects. She works with a limited palette of colored papers, subtle hues and neutral tones that recall those found in a stately interior decorating catalog. The furniture loses its usability and becomes flattened through the process of collage, yet the evidence of their former lives remains in Beall’s reimagined versions, detected in the netting, fasteners or hooks. This gesture–”transcendent and failing” as Beall described–embodies hopeful, humorous and deadpan overtones across these depictions of offbeat objects.
Growing up, Beall’s mother was crafty, sewing matching bedspreads and curtains in her childhood home. As Beall began her career as an artist, she often teetered between conflicting perceptions of purpose and decoration. Beall’s work advances abstracted versions of the things that inhabit the domestic realm. Her collages and sculptures, with their vestiges of utility, strike a balance between sophistication and accessibility and are at their strongest when they release a frisson of the uncanny.
-Jacquelyn Gleisner
"Utility Suite" opens at Standard Space on August 31
Please join me on August 31 from 5:30–8pm at Standard Space in Sharon, CT for the opening of my solo exhibition Utility Suite, comprising recent sculpture and collage.
Standard Space is pleased to present Utility Suite, an exhibition of new work by Natalie Beall.
Natalie Beall creates forms that are recognizable without being identifiable–reminiscent of everyday objects but not representative. Her translation of ordinary objects into abstracted collages and sculptures allow them to transcend their traditional roles, suggesting latent possibilities and unknown functions.
She develops her vocabulary of enigmatic forms from objects she finds in antique and thrift stores, on the street, and in her own home. The color schemes of her cut-paper collages are cohesive but not muted: navy blue, brown, taupe, ochre, and forest green, with orange, pale blue, and touches of red. Bold forms are balanced with delicate details of chain, netting, and woven strands. In related sculptures, gray felt rug pads are repurposed and combined with window screen, wood, and clay into wall-hanging forms evoking utilitarian objects.
Natalie Beall earned her BFA from the University of Georgia and her MFA from Columbia University. She was awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts/New York State Council on the Arts Fellowship in Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts in 2017 and a Lighthouse Works Fellowship in 2014. Beall’s work has been exhibited at multiple venues, including the Wassaic Project, The Lower East Side Printshop, and The Cooper Union. She lives and works in Salt Point, New York.
Elementary school workshop with Shaker Museum Mount Lebanon
On June 4, I will lead a hands-on collage workshop with elementary school students at Walter B. Howard Elementary in conjunction with Amie Cunat’s artist residency at the Shaker Museum Mount Lebanon. Students will learn about the Shakers and use cut paper to recreate objects from the museum’s collection.
Collograph prints on Uprise Art
Selected collograph prints from my 2016 series Index of Function (Traces) are now available for purchase through Uprise Art. Included with each image is a quote revealing elements of my process.
“Although I don’t think of these images as symbols, I do think that together they begin to form a kind of enigmatic vocabulary. I like to think of these images hanging on a wall in groups, holding latent energy.”
Natalie Beall + Uprise Art
Selected collages are now available on Uprise Art. Read a Q & A with me in the Uprise Journal here.
2017 NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship in Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts
A huge thank you to the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the participating panelists for awarding me a 2017 Fellowship in Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts. Read more about the fellowship here.
Black Cat Journal, Spring 2017 Issue
Please check out the current issue of Black Cat Journal, featuring a piece I wrote on moving from NYC to the Hudson Valley titled The Decoration of Houses. Thanks to the editors for inviting me to contribute!
Endurance reading of The Testimonies of Mother Ann Lee @ Basilica Hudson
I will be participating in an endurance reading of The Testimonies of Mother Ann Lee, organized by the Shaker Museum Mount Lebanon at the 24 Hour Drone, Basilica Hudson. The reading will take place on Saturday, April 29 from 2–10pm.
