Natalie Bieser

Natalie Bieser (born December 14, 1948 in Grand Junction , Colorado ) is an American contemporary painter and object artist .

life and work

Natalie Bieser studied at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles and at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia , Los Angeles County until 1970 .

She had her first solo exhibitions in 1975 in the Galerie Mikro in Berlin and in 1977 in the Nancy Hoffman Gallery in Lost Angeles.

Natalie Bieser works in her object art with a wide variety of materials, such as wood and string, she often uses wooden sticks and strings of pearls for her wall objects. The themes of her art are spatial illusions, gravity, rhythm and light also play an important role in her work.

She mainly uses light colors in her painting. Her oil paintings are in Beige -Tönen, light gray and white or mauve held colors. She separates the individual color fields from one another in a burr-like manner. Her watercolors are also done in the same style.

Natalie Bieser participated in Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 with wall objects with strings of pearls . She had numerous solo exhibitions and took part in group exhibitions around the world. Her works have been shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, among others.

Bieser lives in Los Angeles , California .

Literature and Sources

• Exhibition catalog: documenta 5. Survey of Reality - Imagery Today ; Catalog (as a file folder) Volume 1: (Material); Volume 2: (list of exhibits); Kassel 1972
• documenta archive (ed.); Resubmission d5 - A survey of the archive on documenta 1972 ; Kassel / Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1121-X
• Rosenberg, Harold: Art on the edge: Creators and situations ; University of Chicago Press, 1983 ISBN 0226726746 ISBN 9780226726748 (Chapter 5: On the edge: Documenta 5 , p. 262ff)

Web links

• National Museum of Women in the Arts
• Materials by and about Natalie Bieser in the documenta archive