PAUL NATHAN
Paul Nathan, Installation view, Dawn Whistle 2024Paul Nathan completed his MFA at Elam, University of Auckland in 2019. Since then, he has had solo shows at Starkwhite, Scott Lawrie Gallery, Northart and Suite Gallery to name a few. In public spaces, his work has featured in murals and electronic billboards across NZ. In 2020 he received the Gordon Harris Art Supplies Prize for his MFA work and in 2019 he won the RT Nelson Emerging Artist Award. He has been a finalist in the NZ Printmaking and Painting Awards, Molly Morpeth Canaday Awards and the Wallace Awards. His interest is in the way that the grid can function as a “symbolist window” in art, and how it can be extended to examine nature.
Representation Artor Contemporary
Paul Nathan, Blue agate, 2024 Acrylic on photo canvas 50cm x 40cm
Paul Nathan, Red meteor, 2024 Acrylic on photo canvas 50cm x 40cm
Paul Nathan, Green chunk, 2024Acrylic on photo canvas 50cm x 40cmThese works are autobiographical. They reference my first professional study (after my BA in Art History) as a gemologist with a love of stones, followed by a career as a photographer in New York and finally as a painter in New Zealand. For the longest time, I would speak about my careers as a gemologist and photographer as separate from my art practice, so it is timely for me to be able to combine them. The ideas behind the works question the relationship of nature to the man-made world and how we as humans see ourselves as separate yet related to the natural environment, but only on our own terms. By introducing a foreign body to the surface of the crystal images I am investigating what kind of relationships may occur. -Paul Nathan-
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