SANTA FE, NM.- Cover artist,
Natalie Christensen is a fine art photographer living in Santa Fe, New Mexico whose work is featured in
teNeues Books’ newest release MINIMALISM IN PHOTOGRAPHY, The Original.
Photographer Natalie Christensen’s focus is on banal peripheral landscapes unnoticed by most - commonplace architecture and streetscapes deconstructed to color fields, geometry and shadow. “Sometimes I get a glimpse of the sublime in these ordinary places.” Based in Santa Fe, New Mexico and influenced by her 25 years as a psychotherapist, her work favors psychological metaphors. “The symbols and spaces in my images are invitations to explore a rich world concealed from consciousness, tapping into something deeply familiar to our experience; often disturbing, sometimes amusing…unquestionably present.”
teNeues Publishing Company states: Minimalism in Photography, The Original is one-of-a-kind: the definitive work on minimalist photography. Featuring international newcomers and established minimalist fine art photographers.
Minimalist artists such as Maria Svabova, Maarten Rots, Matthieu Venot, and Natalie Christensen borrow their motifs from everyday life. They can be schematic depictions of topography, or purely two-dimensional, abstract compositions. Sometimes they are detailed, sometimes large-scale. The point is always reduction.
The minimalist photographer’s eye directs the viewer’s gaze to the aesthetics of the ordinary, transforming them into something extraordinary, something inspiring. Photographic objects are reduced to the essentials as an alternative to the chaos of the world. The resulting photographs always use clean lines, often arranged in geometric compositions.
For devotees of the minimalism trend and all those who want to give their eyes a break in our cluttered world. We live in turbulent times, which arouses a longing to pare down to the essentials in many people. The trend towards minimalism is reflected in the worlds of home living, environmental awareness, and mindfulness, to be sure, but it is also reflected in art and photography.
The editor, teNeues Publishing Company of Düsseldorf, Germany, is represented by ACC Art Books, one of the world’s leading publishers and distributors of books on the arts and visual culture.
Notes on the Artist: Natalie Christensen’s current solo exhibition is on view with Sahara West Gallery and Performing Arts Center, Las Vegas, NV and her work is showing at Abbaye St André Centre d’ art contemporain, Meymac, France. She has upcoming exhibitions at Pie Projects, Santa Fe, NM and her collaboration with Jim Eyre, SHIFTINGSHAPES, will be installed in two public locations in London: Mayfair and Soho. Other recent exhibitions include Galerie Catherine et André Hug, Paris, France; SITE Santa Fe, NM; Open Doors Gallery, London; Nordic Art Agency, Malmö, Sweden; Hôtel Jules & Jim, Paris, France; Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK; Embassy of the United Arab Emirates and Meridian International Center, Washington, D.C.; Intersect Arts Center, St. Louis, MO; The Trolley Barn Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY; Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX, Attleboro Arts Museum, MA; Albuquerque Museum, NM; and Yellowstone Art Museum, MT. Recent NFT exhibitions include 1st Dibs and ART3/New Art City.
Books / publications include Minimalism in Photography cover and featured artist, teNeues, Düsseldorf, Germany, 007 – Natalie Christensen, Setanta Books, London in collaboration with Open Doors Gallery, London - reviewed in PhotoBook Journal, The British Journal of Photography. Recent national and international press coverage includes Feature Shoot; The Columbia Review; Santa Fe New Mexican/Pasatiempo; ART UP MI, Milan; Art Folio 3rd Annual Book; Modern Renaissance, p.42; Pigeon Review; Kitchen Table Quarterly; Art Reveal; FStop; Western Art & Architecture; Agave Magazine; Artists Responding To…; Apricity; The Café Review; Cleaver/Philadelphia’s International Literary Magazine; CALYX, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women; Artdose Magazine; Creative Boom; Bombfire; Brief Wilderness; The Bar Bulletin; All About Photo; Another Chicago Magazine; Arlijo; Avatar Review; The Guardian; Aesthetica Magazine; Superpresent Magazine; Apero; Santa Clara Review; and MVIBE. Her tenure as Artist-in-Residence at Chateau d'Orquevaux, France is to occur at a future undetermined date due to Covid19. Interviews aired on KSFR radio, Santa Fe; KTRC radio, Santa Fe, NM; MPB Blog and UNFM – Artworld Innovators Radio, University of Manitoba, Canada.
For more information about Natalie Christensen’s fine art career:
https://nataliechristensenphoto.com
