About Natalie Gordon

Natalie Gordon is an interdisciplinary artist who creates work that is a vivacious take on existentialism. She experiments with the concepts of impermanence, mortality, and surrealism through various types of mediums. Natalie’s work peaks through a window, exposing truths about human nature. She creates work that is an exploration of the idea that people, places, and life are not always what they seem. She places her amorphous figures in a definitive place in the world, giving them autonomy, and a connection to the ideas of space and time. Her pieces are full of the peculiar, whimsical, and often absurd places that her mind takes her. She is especially inspired by her incredibly vivid dreams, her self-identity, and her abundant love for films. She is drawn to the subject of dreams because she has always had vivid, intense dreams that make her feel as if the dream is real life and real life is just a dream. Instead of waking up from her bizarre dreams dizzy and questioning if what she just witnessed was actually a figment of her own imagination, she decided to turn them into something tangible, something undeniably real. Natalie’s work often blurs the lines between her passions for illustration, animation, painting, and video art. She makes connections between her exaggerated figures, and the fantastical spaces her mind can conjure up. The color palette choices in her artwork are either saturated, candy-colored hues or timeless black and white; there is no in-between.

Natalie translates bits and pieces of her own self-identity into those daunting heuristics of life such as death, birth, and love. She aspires to spark imagination and newfound curiosity in her audience, to see things as simply as we did when we were children. She wants her viewers to question everything they think they know and to remain inquisitive about the things that make them feel most vulnerable. Her artwork is a direct reflection of her own identity; it is a sum of all of her unique life experiences and beliefs. Sometimes, her work can be political and highly subjective, or comical and nonsensical, yet it always contains a sense of relatability. The recurring theme of “home” in her work is a metaphor for our own bodily autonomy—a sanctuary from the things in life that we cannot begin to control or understand. When she is creating analog works such as animation, it’s cerebral and makes her feel extremely connected to herself and the world around her. The variations of mediums that she uses aid her in making statements about the world in ways that words alone cannot. In the future, she will be honing in even more on animation and film, but she will always continue to illustrate and interweave it into her video work. For now, she will continue creating work that pushes the boundaries between the curious and the absurd.