Nathaniel Stern

Printing Time by Nathaniel Stern (USA/South Africa) is a suite of 18 performative prints, each an edition of 5, produced especially for this show at Art at Wharepuke. Nathaniel explains his works as “ (an)ongoing series; I strap a desktop scanner, laptop and custom-made battery pack to my body, and perform images into existence. I might scan in straight, long lines across tables, tie the scanner around my neck and swing over flowers, do pogo-like gestures over bricks, or just follow the wind over water lilies in a pond. The dynamism of my relationship to the landscape is transformed into beautiful and quirky renderings, which are re-stretched and coloured on my laptop, then produced as archival art objects. This series follows the trajectory of Impressionist painting, through Surrealism to Postmodernism, but rather than citing crises of representation, reality or simulation, my focus is on performing all three in relation to each other”.

Nathaniel Stern is an experimental installation and video artist, net.artist, printmaker and writer. He has produced and collaborated on projects ranging from interactive and immersive environments, mixed reality art and multimedia physical theatre performances, to digital and traditional printmaking, latex and concrete sculpture. He’s won many awards, fellowships, commissions and residencies between South Africa, America, and all over Europe. Nathaniel holds a design degree from Cornell University, studio-based Masters in art from the Interactive Telecommunications Program (NYU), and research PhD from Trinity College Dublin. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Design at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee

Art at Wharepuke is delighted to present Nathaniel’s work for the first time in New Zealand

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