Water
California Arts League is proud to present “Water” and I am honored to have ‘Cosmonaut’ and ‘Buoy’ in the show.
At The Betsy Leuke Creative Arts Center
1100 W Clark Avenue, Burbank, California
Opening Reception is September 6th, 7-9
The show runs until September 26th, 2024
A Woman’s Voice in a Pivotal Time
Juror, Kim Abeles selected ‘What the Pharaohs Knew’ for the Southern California Women's Caucus for Art 'A Woman's Voice in a Pivotal Time' exhibition at The Makery. There will be a potluck opening reception Saturday, September 14, 12-2 pm.
During the opening reception, at approximately 12 pm, our juror Kim Abeles will do a short walk-through of the exhibition.
Closing Reception with Artists Talks: Saturday, Sept. 28, 12-2pm.
The Makery, 260 South Los Angeles St, Los Angeles, CA 90012. Gallery hours: Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, Noon-6pm.
FIBER IN 3D
On view: July 20 to November 30
Featuring contemporary dimensional fiber works by over 25 national artists juried by Fiber Art Now. Explore a breadth of unique materials, methods and themes interpreted through fiber and fabric techniques such as installation, weaving, basketry, sculpture, felting, surface design, knitting, wearables, and mixed media.
Gallery hours
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday: noon – 5 p.m.
Wednesday: noon – 7 p.m.
Public Reception
August 17: 3-5 p.m., Gallery and Kulchin Courtyard
Refreshments and live music will be available.
ART DIVISION
‘Madame X’ is up for auction to raise money for a wonderful Los Angeles charity.
Art Division presents ART + SOL, our first annual, month-long fundraising campaign to raise awareness and support for Art Division's arts education programming. Our goal is to raise $1 Million to continue offering our students free, focused arts education, individualized tutoring, and personal support - everything they need to pursue higher education, achieve self-sufficiency, and obtain careers in the arts.
This year’s auction includes work by celebrated established and emerging artists from around Los Angeles and beyond, including:
Allegra Pacheco, Astrid Preston, Charles Arnoldi, Dan McCleary, Danae Falliers, Daniela Schweitzer, Danielle Raigoza, Demian Flores, Devin Yalkin, Frank Romero, Graciela Iturbide, Gronk, James Griffith, James Hayward, James H.D. Brown, Javier Carrillo, Joe Fay, John Nava, Judithe Hernández, Julius Shulman, Kelly Berg, Kevin Kowalski, Kim McCarty, Laurie Steelink, Leopoldo Peña, Lou Beach, Luis Mateo, Mark Posey, Natalie Obermaier, Ned Evans, OTISWOODS, Robin Mitchell, Salomón Huerta, Shaun McCracken, Stephen Hannock, Victor Reyes, Vilma Ronzon, Wyatt Mills
Illuminated
California Art League's Illuminated presents The Gold Medal Exhibition at Sasse Museum of Art - 300 South Thomas Street Pomona, CA 91766.
Exhibition runs from July 1st to August 31st 2024
Delaplaine Arts Center
Opium was chosen by Laila Abdul-Hai Jadallah to be a part of the National Juried Exhibition at the Delaplaine Arts Center in Frederick MD from May 4 to July 7th, 2024.
Longlisted for the Homiens Prize
Aplomb Gallery
‘Bubble Gum’ was awarded “High Contrast Champion” in the exhibit Challenge The Norm at Aplomb Gallery in Dover, New Hampshire, from April 6th, 2024 through May 31st, 2024.
There will be an opening reception Apr 6 from 5-8 PM at 15 Mechanic Street, Suite 117, Dover, NH 03820
Expand & Contract
‘Emotional Outpouring’ won an Honorable Mention and will be included in the exhibit Expand & Contract, curated by Dr. Rotem Rozental.
Fiber Art Now
‘Chroreographed’ with be included in the April 2024 issue of Fiber Art Now.
Cut and Paste
‘Bubble Gum’ and ‘Choreographed’ were in Connecticut from February 15th, 2024 - March 3rd, 2024 at The West Hartford Art League.
Featured Portfolio Natalie Obermaier: Mistakes as Discovery
13 Page Featured Portfolio in the January/February 2024 issue of Shadow & Light Magazine. If you are interested in purchasing a copy, you can do so here.
Into The Light:
Analog Photography Now
Incredibly honored to have my image Nøkke chosen as 1st place winner by Marisa Caicchilo, PhD, of Building Bridges International Art Foundation, Artist, Curator and Art Historian
Opening Reception: Monday, January 29, 2024, 6-8 pm
LACP, 252 S. Los Angeles St, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Small Things
‘Kitty’ won First Place! The opening reception will be on Saturday, January 13, 2024 from 5-9 pm via California Art League at The Artists Gallery. The exhibit will also be online on the CAL web site www.californiaartleague.org.
Interview in the September 2023 Issue of Ebby Magazine
Honored to have been selected as one of LA Photo Curators’ top 40 of 2023. My image ‘Panache’ will be included in the upcoming Siblings book.
I was just about to walk out the door and board a plane for Albuquerque in November 2022 when I felt a little tickle in my throat. One covid test later and I most certainly was not going anywhere. Center allowed me a raincheck for the following year, which turns out to have been a major win, as the temperatures were in the 40’s and 50’s instead of 2° in 2022. A three day event meant I could rock my best jumpers and befriend only those who showed up in COLOR.
I was the yahoo dragging a suitcase filled with 8 one of a kind framed collages AND a portfolio of silver gelatin prints (just in case) up and down those stairs again and again, but Brad and Rocky made it all possible with VIP room placement and the most ridiculous, spin-to-win ride available at Hertz. Good times were had and friendships were made.
My wall at the Pershing Square pop up, September 12-14, 2023
Catalyst Contemporary will be taking 14 of my collages to Art on Paper, Pier 36, Booth D13. If you are interested in a complimentary pass, please reach out, I may have a few left!
Art on Paper, New York City’s celebrated, medium-driven fair, returns to downtown Manhattan’s Pier 36 during September 2023’s Armory Art Week with 100 galleries featuring top modern and contemporary paper-based art. The fair’s ninth edition will showcase unique and powerful projects curated by Artistic Director Nato Thompson, with a focus on can’t-miss performances highlighting the creative potential of paper.
Gallery Exposed
Sloan Projects is pleased to present an exhibition of traditional black and white photographic prints and hand cut collage. Presenting work by Natalie Obermaier, Jeff Charbonneau & Eliza French, Rachael Short and Viktor Klinger. On view through June 4th, San Carlos between Ocean and 7th, Carmel Square- Carmel, California
South X Southeast Magazine
Editor’s Choice
Jennifer McClure curated the Constructions/Connections Exhibition and selected ten of the artists to be featured in South X Southeast Magazine. You can peruse the portfolios here.
Center for Photographic Art
Curated by Paul Kopeikin, this show will be on view from November 19 through December 29th, 2022 at
San Carlos and 19th Avenue,
Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA 93923
There will be an opening reception on November 19h from 4-6pm Pacific Time and Paul Kopeikin will be in attendance and announcing awards during the reception.
Constructions
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Connections
Curated by Jennifer McClure, this show will be on view at South By Southeast Gallery, 945 McCrary Road, Molena, GA 30258
October 22 - December 2022
Closing Reception November 27th, 5pm-8pm
The other art fair
Part of my booth at The Other Art Fair at Barker Hangar in Los Angeles.. The show is hosted by Saatchi and they put on a great fair with DubLab DJs and world class artists. I loved the experience. It was clear that people were really hungry for art going experiences after a long pandemic.
A selection of my silver gelatin prints, some toned and some solarized, mounted to wood.
Fraction Magazine 14th anniversary issue # 157
Curated by Leo Hsu and Bree Lamb, June 2022
Forging Reflections in the sun
Forging Reflections in the Sun presents the works of Natalie Obermaier that are the result of her 2021 artist-in-residence at Full Circle Fine Art. The selected pieces - sculptures, paper weavings, and solarized photographs - invite us to continually question and renew our perspectives, reorient the way we view ourselves, value each other, and displays layers of history and memory for us to radically reimagine the very thing we inhabit our entire lifetime, our bodies.
Catalyst Contemporary Gallery, 523 N Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21201 May 13th to July 2022
A virtual walk through is available here, and the works are still available for purchase there. It’s the coolest.
Solo Exhibition: Forging Reflections in the Sun
Another view of Forging Reflections in the Sun
IntertWined: images of connection
Winning the jurors prize at The Living Image exhibit led to a “solo” exhibition at The Halide Project in Philadelphia, PA. The show entitled Intertwined: Images of Connection, used my work as the cornerstone of the Spring Invitational Exhibition and paired 12 of my images with those of Marc LeClef (@marcleclef) and Maurene Cooper (@vanitytintype). The show ran from May 15th to June 26th, 2022.
There was a zoom artist talk on May 16th, 2022, which you can find here: Light Talk with Natalie Obemaier at The Halide Project . A casual conversation between Dale Rio, who curated the exhibit, and I in which I awkwardly share a weird chronology of my life. If you fast forward to the end you can see a little collage of some of my favorite “stand in” photos.
Stripped Down
A bold display of artworks, across all mediums, celebrating the nude form, sexuality, and body positivity.
Vestige Gallery
Pittsburgh, PA February 19th - March 2, 2022
Living Image
Chosen as the Juror’s Selection grand prize winner
The Halide Project in Philadelphia, PA
January 16th - February 26th, 2022
Pattern and Repetition
Site : Brooklyn
December 23rd, 2021 through January 23, 2022
A Perfect Moment
Cultural Center of Cape Cod
Three of my images were included in this group show December 2021
Assemblage
Los Lagunas Gallery
Laguna Beach, CA
November 2021
Nude Geographies
Praxis Photo Arts Center
Minneapolis, MN
November 2021
artist in residence - full circle gallery
I spent a perfect autumnal month engrossed in the freedom of making. Brian Miller introduced me to Forte Elegance paper, which I fell hopelessly in love with and then purchased all that remained on the internet. It is now extinct and I may never recover, but I think I honored it well. November 2021.
Alternative Facts
Colorado Photography Arts Center
Parker, CO
March 1 through April 12th, 2021
Interstellar
Shockboxx Gallery
Hermosa Beach, CA
January 2021
trust the story
Curated by Melanie McWhorter, I had three photographs and one collage in the exhibit.
Baldwin Photographic Gallery, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN
February, 2020
Read her juror’s statement here.
Moved To Act
Multicultural Arts Center
Cambridge, MA
January 11 - February 12, 2020
AND
Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts
Providence, RI
October 15 - November 13, 2020
Beyond The Surface: The Photograph as Object
On view at Cal Poly University Art Project
January 9 - January 31, 2020
CURATOR'S STATEMENT:
As the practice of photography moves farther away from the tactile process of winding film through a camera and long meditative hours spent in the wet darkroom, the contemporary digital photographer is now experiencing an entirely different relationship to the image. With the proliferation of digital capture, with Photoshop replacing the darkroom, and instantaneous digital printing at the push of a button, photographs are now equally a product of the mind and technology, with the ability for limitless reproduction.
In response to this loss of the evidence of the artist’s hand, a number of artists are reconsidering the potential of an image with a move towards making rather than taking photographs.
Read more here.
Coalescing - solo Exhibition of 26 collage works
Full Circle Gallery, Baltimore Maryland, January 12 - February 23, 2019
Unbound 8 - Candela Gallery
Richmond VA
July 5th - August 3rd, 2019
I had the pleasure of sharing wall space with fellow Drexel alumni Amanda Tinker and badass LA mover and shaker Paula Riff.
Cimarron National Works on Paper
Gardiner Gallery of Art
Oklahoma State University
September 9 through October 10, 2019
Artistic Psychologies
Essex Gallery
CCBC
Baltimore, MD
July 15th - September 27, 2019