b. 1985 - Riverside, CA, USA.
Natalie Dunham currently lives and works in Miami, FL. Her current series entitled paint the roses [RED] is an exploration of artifice, or “ways of covering.” Drawing inspiration from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, these minimal installations ask the question: What happens when we rely on surface interaction and alteration? For these works Dunham strips materials down to a raw, natural state in order to reveal what is honest and uncomplicated about them. She then covers the forms with paint, creating a visual and psychological tension between surface and depth. The series hopes to illustrate that “painting the (roses) red” is a temporary solution and that the true “color” of things will always reveal itself. Natalie received her BFA in painting from Birmingham-Southern College, and her MFA in sculpture from the Rinehart School of Sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA).
Natalie Dunham currently lives and works in Miami, FL. Her current series entitled paint the roses [RED] is an exploration of artifice, or “ways of covering.” Drawing inspiration from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, these minimal installations ask the question: What happens when we rely on surface interaction and alteration? For these works Dunham strips materials down to a raw, natural state in order to reveal what is honest and uncomplicated about them. She then covers the forms with paint, creating a visual and psychological tension between surface and depth. The series hopes to illustrate that “painting the (roses) red” is a temporary solution and that the true “color” of things will always reveal itself. Natalie received her BFA in painting from Birmingham-Southern College, and her MFA in sculpture from the Rinehart School of Sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA).
Installations and Wall Sculptures
