Natasha Loewy

Lives and works in Oakland, CA, USA

Artist 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 a connection between our psychological conditions, material reality, and embodied experiences.

Artwork

• pressing time, 2022. large yellow balloon, plexiglass
• it's ok to let go (iii), 2022. 5 rubber-bands 2.5”x6”x2” (wxhxd)
• how are you holding up?, 2021. two cinder-blocks, wall, floor
• bent out of shape, 2021. cinder-blocks, cart, time
• "a" tunings / attuning, 2023. video, found sound
• 134,407 stickers to bring you a little bit of joy, 2021. forty feet of hand stacked color coding dot stickers
• in time (takeaway), 2021. construction paper drawings, pedestal
• one and two and three and, 2022. stacked hand colored vellum, plexiglass pedestal
• wait / weight, 2021. cinder-blocks, packing band, time
• one thing leads to another (repairing watches), 2023. rubberbands, pins
• one thing leads to another (repairing watches) (ii), 2023. rubberbands, pins
• one thing leads to another (repairing watches) (iii), 2023. rubber-bands, pins, balloon, rock from our garden