Natalie Lanese - "Is it Heavy?" Mixed Media Painting
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"Is It Heavy?"
Flashe, acrylic, oil, pumice and flex paste on canvas.
14" x 11".
Unframed.
Natalie Lanese
Natalie Lanese's work is recognized for its punchy color palette and layered patterns. She makes paintings, collages, and installations, which The Village Voice described as "enigmatic narratives heightened by keen color clashes and jazzy textures" when covering her exhibition at Jack the Pelican Presents in Brooklyn in 2007. Ms. Lanese has exhibited her work at MOCA Tucson, the Akron Art Museum, and the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, MA, and has installed permanent public artworks in San Diego, Cincinnati, Toledo, and Cleveland, OH. Her work has been featured in New American Paintings. She has attended residencies at Yaddo, the Vermont Studio Center, Otis College of Art + Design, and Sim Residency in Reykjavik, and is the recipient of the Ohio Arts Council's Individual Excellence Award and the Arts Commission's Merit Award.
Ms. Lanese received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. She earned her Bachelor's degree at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio, and a Master of Arts degree at Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Institute of Art. She lives and works in Cleveland, Ohio.
Artist Statement
I make abstract geometric paintings and site-specific installations that play with perception of space. Relying on repetition, line, scale shifts, and collage techniques to push and pull on the picture plane, the resulting image manipulates and challenges spatial expectations. I create rules as I go, making decisions that are spontaneous and slightly measured, allowing for mistakes and corrections. DayGlo colors, a signature of the palette, challenge adjacent colors and disrupt a comfortable space. After years of making hard-edged patterns, slick geometric painting has eroded into gestural mark-making and heavily layered textures. The marks are expressionistic, at times smooth and controlled, and sometimes demonstrate struggle and confrontation. The resulting punchy surfaces and dizzying color contrasts inhabit a frontal, shallow, optical space.
Collage serves as a both sculptural and conceptual expression and remains a signature procedural device. Repeating patterns and gestures reiterate the picture plane, while collaged or painted elements push against it, creating a constant, inventive dialogue between illusions of depth and flatness. The paintings expand into the viewer's space, either perceptually or physically, and create a greater sensory experience beyond seeing.
Education
2007 MFA, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2005 MA, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
2002 BA, Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH
Residencies
2025 GAPP Artist Residency, Toledo Museum of Art, Glass Pavilion, Toledo, OH
2023 La Macina di San Cresci, Greve in Chianti, Italy Casa Regis, Mosso, Italy
2022 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2019 SIM Residency, Reykjavík, Iceland
2019 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
2017 LA Summer Residency, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2023 Topographies, Dairy Barn Arts, Athens, OH Land Jam, Collaborative
2023 Project with Andrea Myers, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
2021 Paint Piles, River House Arts, Toledo, OH
2018 Multi, Kent State University at Stark, North Canton, OH
2017 Natalie Lanese: Paintings, Sloan Gallery, Lock Haven University, Lock Haven, PA
2014 Natalie Lanese: Camofleur, Survival Kit Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2013 Popscapes, Space Gallery, Portland, ME
2013 P A N O R A M A, CVA Gallery, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH
2012 flatland, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
2007 Cut and Paste, Xavier University Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2007 Wallpaper, Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn, NY
2005 Kitschen and Dish, with Gina DeSantis, Buzz Gallery, Cleveland, OH
Group Exhibitions
2024 The Limits and Outerlimits of Line, Casa Regis, Mosso, Piedmont, Italy
2024 Are We There Yet?, Reinberger Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2023 Tangents, Artist Archives of the Western Reserve, Cleveland, OH
2023 Spectrum, Emily Davis Gallery, Akron, OH
2022 Messin' With You, Yards Projects, Cleveland, OH
2020 Paper Routes: Women to Watch 2020-Ohio, Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH
2019 Dazzled: OMD, Memphis Design, and Beyond, MOCA, Tucson, AZ
2018 Material Translation, Neon Heater Gallery, Findlay, OH
2017 Mulitverse, Radial Gallery, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH
2016 Contemporary Sculpture from Midwest, Ella Sharp Museum, Jackson, MI
2015 NEO Geo, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
2014 95th Toledo Area Artists Exhibition, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
2011 Wall Works, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
2008 ^^^^^ The Allegory of the Mountain, Mahan Gallery, Columbus, OH
2007 SCOPE International Contemporary Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland 2006 Photography and Contemporary Tactics, Steuben Galleries, Brooklyn, NY 2005 Eat Sugar Spend Money, Newsense Gallery, Cleveland OH
2005 M.A. Thesis Art Exhibition, CWRU Art Studio Gallery, Cleveland, OH
Awards
2021 Individual Excellence Award, Ohio Arts Council
2020 Vermont Studio Center / Ohio Arts Council Fellowship
2019 20 Under 40 Leadership Award, Toledo, OH
2019 Accelerator Grant, The Arts Commission, Toledo, OH
2018 Accelerator Grant, The Arts Commission, Toledo, OH
2017 Merit Award, The Arts Commission, Toledo, OH
2017 Individual Excellence Award, Ohio Arts Council
Public Commissions
2022 Cleveland, OH, "Glacier Caves," W. 25th Street and Walton Avenue
2019 Toledo, OH, "Stripes" and "Pixelated Painting," Lighting Design, Veteran's Glass City Skyway
2018 Toledo, OH, "The Dazzle Colonnade," Promedica Headquarters, Promenade Park
2016 Cincinnati, OH, "Swing Around Rosie," 1606 Pleasant Street, Over-the-Rhine
2015 Toledo, OH, "Island Sanctuary for the Ghost of Moses," 19 S. St. Clair Street (collaboration with Douglas Kampfer)
2012 Cleveland, OH, "City of Light, City of Magic," George V. Voinovich Bridge, Ontario Street
Collections
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Cuyahoga County Public Library, Cleveland, OH
The May, Cleveland, OH
Promedica, Toledo, OH
Fine Art Collection of Lock Haven University, Lock Haven, PA
IDEA1, San Diego, CA
The Putnam Collection at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
Fidelity Investments Corporate Art Collection, Boston, MA
Xavier University Department of Art, Cincinnati, OH
Press
2022 Mishak, Shawn. "New Mural, 'Glacier Caves' by Natalie Lanese, Celebrated Thursday in Clark-Fulton," Cleveland Scene, October 6, 2022.
2021 Letts, KA. "Paint Piles by Natalie Lanese." New Art Examiner, Winter Quarter 2021
2019 Regan, Margaret. "Visual Arts: Razzle-Dazzle Art." Tucson Local Media, February 13, 2019.
2018 Kaplan, Phillip. "Art Worker: Natalie Lanese paints the town all the colors." Toledo Blade, October 18, 2018.
2018 Wachunas, Tom. "Of Place and Planes." http://artwach.blogspot.com, March 12, 2018.
2017 Butz, Michael C. "Working the Multidimensional." Canvas, Spring/Summer 2017.
2017 Nigam, Anmol. "In the Mind of an Artist." The Observer, March 31, 2017.
2016 New American Paintings, Midwest, Issue #125
2015 Usmani, Josh. "Northeast Ohio's Deep History and Bright Future in Geometric Abstraction Is Showcased at the Akron Art Museum," Cleveland Scene, November 18.
2015 Turner, Anderson. "Open your mind to 'Neo Geo' at Akron Art Museum," Akron Beacon Journal, December 4.
2014 Lane, Tahree. "95th Toledo Area Artists' Exhibition shakes up Toledo Museum of Art," Toledo Blade, November 16.
2013 Schroeder, Nicholas. "Artists Zig and Zag at SPACE Gallery," The Portland Phoenix, July 25.
2011 Cook, Greg. "The deCordova thinks about 'murals'," The Boston Phoenix, July 19.
2009 Grennan, Colleen. "Traversing Wilderness," NYArts. January/February.
2007 Baker, R.C. "Best In Show: Where the Mechanical Things Are," The Village Voice, May 2.
2007 McAdams, Shane. "Art 38 Basel and Beyond," The Brooklyn Rail, July/August.
2005 Bly, Lyz. "Kitchen Metaphysician," The Cleveland Free Times, June 8.
2005 Tranberg, Dan. "Shedding Sweetness and Light on Our Society's Heavy Subjects," The Plain Dealer. August 5.
Visiting Artist Lectures
2023 Kent State University, College of Architecture & Environmental Design, Kent, OH
2022 Xavier University, Department of Art, Cincinnati, OH
2021 Cleveland Institute of Art, Painting Department, Cleveland, OH
2020 Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH
2018 Kent State University at Stark, North Canton, OH
2017 Lock Haven University, Lock Haven, PA
2017 Cleveland Institute of Art, Painting Department, Cleveland, OH
2017 University of Dayton, Dayton, OH
2013 University of Toledo, Toledo, OH
2012 Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
2007 Xavier University Galleries, Cincinnati, OH
Curatorial Projects
2018 Agency, River House Gallery, Toledo, OH
Klemm Gallery, Siena Heights University, Adrian, MI:
2018 Carl Ostendarp, Works on Paper
2017 Barbara Cervenka, 1000 Cranes for Iraq
2017 Ouizi, Daisy Chains
2017 Mike Nemire, Hue-Chroma-Luminance
2016 Sarah FitzSimons, Three Houses
2016 Christopher Kardambikis, Inconclusive Endings
2016 Andy Curlowe and Jenniffer Omaitz, Hypothetical Constructs and Translucent Boundaries
2015 Mad Mohre, IN/Explicable Situ
2015 Todd Forsgren, Ornithological Photographs
2015 Kelly Burke and Brett J. Lawrence, 2015 Alumni Exhibition
2015 Jefferson Nelson, Artist/Curator, The Sprawl Too
2014 John R. Wittersheim, A Retrospective Ben Godward, Turnpikes and Rabbit Holes
2014 Christi Birchfield, Above the Fold, Below the Surface
2013 Nia Burks, Diamond Formations and Other High Pressure Performances
2013 Nick Barbee, CATO Sarah Carter, Alumni Curator, Following a Lead: The Photographs of Mary Joe Young Stacia Yeapanis, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
All sales on original artwork are final. No discounts apply.
Flashe, acrylic, oil, pumice and flex paste on canvas.
14" x 11".
Unframed.
Natalie Lanese
Natalie Lanese's work is recognized for its punchy color palette and layered patterns. She makes paintings, collages, and installations, which The Village Voice described as "enigmatic narratives heightened by keen color clashes and jazzy textures" when covering her exhibition at Jack the Pelican Presents in Brooklyn in 2007. Ms. Lanese has exhibited her work at MOCA Tucson, the Akron Art Museum, and the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, MA, and has installed permanent public artworks in San Diego, Cincinnati, Toledo, and Cleveland, OH. Her work has been featured in New American Paintings. She has attended residencies at Yaddo, the Vermont Studio Center, Otis College of Art + Design, and Sim Residency in Reykjavik, and is the recipient of the Ohio Arts Council's Individual Excellence Award and the Arts Commission's Merit Award.
Ms. Lanese received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. She earned her Bachelor's degree at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio, and a Master of Arts degree at Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Institute of Art. She lives and works in Cleveland, Ohio.
Artist Statement
I make abstract geometric paintings and site-specific installations that play with perception of space. Relying on repetition, line, scale shifts, and collage techniques to push and pull on the picture plane, the resulting image manipulates and challenges spatial expectations. I create rules as I go, making decisions that are spontaneous and slightly measured, allowing for mistakes and corrections. DayGlo colors, a signature of the palette, challenge adjacent colors and disrupt a comfortable space. After years of making hard-edged patterns, slick geometric painting has eroded into gestural mark-making and heavily layered textures. The marks are expressionistic, at times smooth and controlled, and sometimes demonstrate struggle and confrontation. The resulting punchy surfaces and dizzying color contrasts inhabit a frontal, shallow, optical space.
Collage serves as a both sculptural and conceptual expression and remains a signature procedural device. Repeating patterns and gestures reiterate the picture plane, while collaged or painted elements push against it, creating a constant, inventive dialogue between illusions of depth and flatness. The paintings expand into the viewer's space, either perceptually or physically, and create a greater sensory experience beyond seeing.
Education
2007 MFA, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2005 MA, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
2002 BA, Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH
Residencies
2025 GAPP Artist Residency, Toledo Museum of Art, Glass Pavilion, Toledo, OH
2023 La Macina di San Cresci, Greve in Chianti, Italy Casa Regis, Mosso, Italy
2022 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2019 SIM Residency, Reykjavík, Iceland
2019 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
2017 LA Summer Residency, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2023 Topographies, Dairy Barn Arts, Athens, OH Land Jam, Collaborative
2023 Project with Andrea Myers, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
2021 Paint Piles, River House Arts, Toledo, OH
2018 Multi, Kent State University at Stark, North Canton, OH
2017 Natalie Lanese: Paintings, Sloan Gallery, Lock Haven University, Lock Haven, PA
2014 Natalie Lanese: Camofleur, Survival Kit Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2013 Popscapes, Space Gallery, Portland, ME
2013 P A N O R A M A, CVA Gallery, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH
2012 flatland, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
2007 Cut and Paste, Xavier University Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2007 Wallpaper, Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn, NY
2005 Kitschen and Dish, with Gina DeSantis, Buzz Gallery, Cleveland, OH
Group Exhibitions
2024 The Limits and Outerlimits of Line, Casa Regis, Mosso, Piedmont, Italy
2024 Are We There Yet?, Reinberger Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2023 Tangents, Artist Archives of the Western Reserve, Cleveland, OH
2023 Spectrum, Emily Davis Gallery, Akron, OH
2022 Messin' With You, Yards Projects, Cleveland, OH
2020 Paper Routes: Women to Watch 2020-Ohio, Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH
2019 Dazzled: OMD, Memphis Design, and Beyond, MOCA, Tucson, AZ
2018 Material Translation, Neon Heater Gallery, Findlay, OH
2017 Mulitverse, Radial Gallery, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH
2016 Contemporary Sculpture from Midwest, Ella Sharp Museum, Jackson, MI
2015 NEO Geo, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
2014 95th Toledo Area Artists Exhibition, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
2011 Wall Works, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
2008 ^^^^^ The Allegory of the Mountain, Mahan Gallery, Columbus, OH
2007 SCOPE International Contemporary Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland 2006 Photography and Contemporary Tactics, Steuben Galleries, Brooklyn, NY 2005 Eat Sugar Spend Money, Newsense Gallery, Cleveland OH
2005 M.A. Thesis Art Exhibition, CWRU Art Studio Gallery, Cleveland, OH
Awards
2021 Individual Excellence Award, Ohio Arts Council
2020 Vermont Studio Center / Ohio Arts Council Fellowship
2019 20 Under 40 Leadership Award, Toledo, OH
2019 Accelerator Grant, The Arts Commission, Toledo, OH
2018 Accelerator Grant, The Arts Commission, Toledo, OH
2017 Merit Award, The Arts Commission, Toledo, OH
2017 Individual Excellence Award, Ohio Arts Council
Public Commissions
2022 Cleveland, OH, "Glacier Caves," W. 25th Street and Walton Avenue
2019 Toledo, OH, "Stripes" and "Pixelated Painting," Lighting Design, Veteran's Glass City Skyway
2018 Toledo, OH, "The Dazzle Colonnade," Promedica Headquarters, Promenade Park
2016 Cincinnati, OH, "Swing Around Rosie," 1606 Pleasant Street, Over-the-Rhine
2015 Toledo, OH, "Island Sanctuary for the Ghost of Moses," 19 S. St. Clair Street (collaboration with Douglas Kampfer)
2012 Cleveland, OH, "City of Light, City of Magic," George V. Voinovich Bridge, Ontario Street
Collections
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Cuyahoga County Public Library, Cleveland, OH
The May, Cleveland, OH
Promedica, Toledo, OH
Fine Art Collection of Lock Haven University, Lock Haven, PA
IDEA1, San Diego, CA
The Putnam Collection at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
Fidelity Investments Corporate Art Collection, Boston, MA
Xavier University Department of Art, Cincinnati, OH
Press
2022 Mishak, Shawn. "New Mural, 'Glacier Caves' by Natalie Lanese, Celebrated Thursday in Clark-Fulton," Cleveland Scene, October 6, 2022.
2021 Letts, KA. "Paint Piles by Natalie Lanese." New Art Examiner, Winter Quarter 2021
2019 Regan, Margaret. "Visual Arts: Razzle-Dazzle Art." Tucson Local Media, February 13, 2019.
2018 Kaplan, Phillip. "Art Worker: Natalie Lanese paints the town all the colors." Toledo Blade, October 18, 2018.
2018 Wachunas, Tom. "Of Place and Planes." http://artwach.blogspot.com, March 12, 2018.
2017 Butz, Michael C. "Working the Multidimensional." Canvas, Spring/Summer 2017.
2017 Nigam, Anmol. "In the Mind of an Artist." The Observer, March 31, 2017.
2016 New American Paintings, Midwest, Issue #125
2015 Usmani, Josh. "Northeast Ohio's Deep History and Bright Future in Geometric Abstraction Is Showcased at the Akron Art Museum," Cleveland Scene, November 18.
2015 Turner, Anderson. "Open your mind to 'Neo Geo' at Akron Art Museum," Akron Beacon Journal, December 4.
2014 Lane, Tahree. "95th Toledo Area Artists' Exhibition shakes up Toledo Museum of Art," Toledo Blade, November 16.
2013 Schroeder, Nicholas. "Artists Zig and Zag at SPACE Gallery," The Portland Phoenix, July 25.
2011 Cook, Greg. "The deCordova thinks about 'murals'," The Boston Phoenix, July 19.
2009 Grennan, Colleen. "Traversing Wilderness," NYArts. January/February.
2007 Baker, R.C. "Best In Show: Where the Mechanical Things Are," The Village Voice, May 2.
2007 McAdams, Shane. "Art 38 Basel and Beyond," The Brooklyn Rail, July/August.
2005 Bly, Lyz. "Kitchen Metaphysician," The Cleveland Free Times, June 8.
2005 Tranberg, Dan. "Shedding Sweetness and Light on Our Society's Heavy Subjects," The Plain Dealer. August 5.
Visiting Artist Lectures
2023 Kent State University, College of Architecture & Environmental Design, Kent, OH
2022 Xavier University, Department of Art, Cincinnati, OH
2021 Cleveland Institute of Art, Painting Department, Cleveland, OH
2020 Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH
2018 Kent State University at Stark, North Canton, OH
2017 Lock Haven University, Lock Haven, PA
2017 Cleveland Institute of Art, Painting Department, Cleveland, OH
2017 University of Dayton, Dayton, OH
2013 University of Toledo, Toledo, OH
2012 Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
2007 Xavier University Galleries, Cincinnati, OH
Curatorial Projects
2018 Agency, River House Gallery, Toledo, OH
Klemm Gallery, Siena Heights University, Adrian, MI:
2018 Carl Ostendarp, Works on Paper
2017 Barbara Cervenka, 1000 Cranes for Iraq
2017 Ouizi, Daisy Chains
2017 Mike Nemire, Hue-Chroma-Luminance
2016 Sarah FitzSimons, Three Houses
2016 Christopher Kardambikis, Inconclusive Endings
2016 Andy Curlowe and Jenniffer Omaitz, Hypothetical Constructs and Translucent Boundaries
2015 Mad Mohre, IN/Explicable Situ
2015 Todd Forsgren, Ornithological Photographs
2015 Kelly Burke and Brett J. Lawrence, 2015 Alumni Exhibition
2015 Jefferson Nelson, Artist/Curator, The Sprawl Too
2014 John R. Wittersheim, A Retrospective Ben Godward, Turnpikes and Rabbit Holes
2014 Christi Birchfield, Above the Fold, Below the Surface
2013 Nia Burks, Diamond Formations and Other High Pressure Performances
2013 Nick Barbee, CATO Sarah Carter, Alumni Curator, Following a Lead: The Photographs of Mary Joe Young Stacia Yeapanis, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
All sales on original artwork are final. No discounts apply.
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