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CHRIS NATROP
Into the Silver See-Through
November 4 - December 16, 2006
Opening Reception: Saturday November 4, 7 – 9PM
Los Angeles based artist Chris Natrop, brings a unique approach to the traditional art practice of paper cutting. Using a standard utility knife and rolls of Lenox 100 drawing paper, Natrop cuts large suspended works and site-specific installations without a predetermined drawing or pattern. The results are arial like drawings with a sculptural and monumental presence, often referencing an amalgam of natural and urban environments.
For the exhibition, "Into the Silver See-Through", Natrop creates an installation comprised of a 30 ft. long wall relief and a room-sized installation of several suspended works. This new body of work is a broad meditation on Natrop's response to the Los Angeles landscape. As a recent resident from northern California, Natrop critiques the hidden and visual structures of this urban space and it's coexistence with nature. The work manifests as other worldly landscapes or fictionalized environments, paralleling the relationships between the organic and synthetic that are so ubiquitous today.
Chris Natrop has exhibited at the Sonoma County Museum, the Skestos Gabriele Gallery in Chicago, Overtones in Los Angeles and at the Walkers' Point Center for the Arts in Milwaukee. His work has been published in Art in America, Tema Celeste and the New Yorker among others. This is Natrop's solo debut at BANK.