Natasha Loewy

Instagram: @natashaloewy

Website: http://www.natashaloewy.com

Bio: Natasha Loewy (she/her) lives in Oakland, California. She received a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, a teaching credential in art from Mills College, and an MFA from San Francisco State University. She is a recipient of the Cadogan Contemporary Art Award and has exhibited at galleries such as SOMArts, the Marin County Civic Center, SOIL, LAST Projects, The Great Highway, Southern Exposure, Root Division, and Hit SF. She is currently a Curatorial Intern at 500 Capp Street and is one of three members of MUZ, a Bay Area based art collective focused on a collaborative studio and curatorial practice.

Statement: My work draws from personal accounts of family joy and trauma as well as from our shared socio-political climate. Through sculpture, drawing, performance, and video, I create works that use tension, anticipation, and fragility to explore the relationships between humor and healing. Using time as an essential material, components of my artworks often change form to fracture, fade, or otherwise shift in color, shape, or sound. These relationships evoke physical and emotional responses, which point to connections between our psychological conditions, material realities, and embodied experiences.