Artist: Natalie Petrosky

Year Completed: 2020

Medium: fabric and acrylic on satin gallery wrapped canvas

Dimensions in Inches (HxWxD): 24"x18"

Shipping from: US

About the Artist:

In the house I grew up in, we had a pussy willow tree growing outside our kitchen window. I remember spending a lot of time with my mother in that room and she loved that tree. I wanted to create a vibrant abstraction of an open window looking out onto a yard full of life and color to reflect on those happy memories.

I work in quite a few mediums in my artistic practice including video, cast glass, drawing, and installation. All of these mediums are driven by how I approach making paintings. My paintings are constructed from cut pillowcases and scarves that I tile together to make abstracted images. I want to elicit the feeling of future or past tender moments specifically with our possible relationships to the 'outdoors', as I am influenced by my daily labor job as an ornamental gardener. I use paint between the splintered textiles as mortar or lead in an homage to mosaics and stained glass that do the work of storytelling and decoration simultaneously. I have a joy of pattern and color and I celebrate them in order to capture a person's stare.

In everything I make, I predominantly focus on the imagery and idea of windows in order to show how our eyes can occupy multiple spaces at once. A window is a defined and grounded frame that our eyes can physically be on one side of while also exploring the space on the other. I feel akin to Alma Thomas' abstract paintings from later in her life when she speaks on looking out her window at the light changing in her garden. I enjoy the thought of how my body can be stuck inside one place, and my mind can take a walk in the woods.

Shipping: Price includes shipping to buyers in the U.S. If buyer is outside the U.S., additional shipping charges may apply and will be calculated and payable after the sale and prior to shipment.