Natalia Moroz
Along the Bridges and Canals, linocut, 2007, 12"x16"
nataliamoroz.com
Contact Me: natalia_ny@yahoo.com
Artist Statement
From childhood reading and drawing were my passions, and I combined them by illustrating my favorite books. The further I develop professionally as an artist, the more I use literature only as a starting point to express my personal views, ideas, and feelings. Uniting strong concepts and expressive graphics, I create visual metaphors with multiple layers of meaning.
During the last few years the main focus of my work has been on relationship between people. I have been exploring the inner motivations behind the way people treat each other. Recently ancient mythology became for me a great source of inspiration, for it contains the very basic human emotions in the most intense and purified form. My interpretations are far from the traditional, and I try to add new dimensions to those well-known stories.
My life-long love to poetry had a great impression on my work. I believe that like a short piece of poetry that can say more with less words than a long novel, so a black and white graphic image, laconic and powerful, can convey much "on a limited budget". Black and white linocuts helped me to polish my layout sense, to refine engraving technique and to develop my present laconic style.
Lately, I tried a new painterly approach in my linocuts. I started using multiple plates, reduction technique, and gradient inking (also known as rainbow inking) to produce complex prints with subtlety and uniqueness of a monotype.
Gallery Representation
Gallery C - Raleigh, NC www.galleryc.net
The Frame Shop and Gallery, Lambertville, NJ
Crow Valley Gallery, Eastsound, WA
Merrill-Jennings Gallery, Davidson, NC
Selected Exhibitions
2008 ACPS 66th Members Exhibition at Free Library, July 14-Sep 5, Philadelphia, PA
2008 Reflections of Self, July 04 - July 25, Charlotte Art League, NC
2008 Art and Soul of South End, April 26 - 27, Charlotte, NC
2008 "Table Manners" Exhibition, Mar 29 - Sep 14, The Arizona Museum for Youth, Mesa, AZ
2008 Art on the Green, April 19 - 20, Davidson, NC - Best of Show
2008 ACPS 65th Members Exhibition The Chestnut Hill Gallery, April 1- 26, Philadelphia, PA
2008 Dogwood Festival, Apr 4-6, Lenox Square, Atlanta, GA
2008 28th Annual National Print Exhibition at Artlink, Apr 11 - May 21, Fort Wayne, IN
2008 American Impressions: Contemporary American Printmaking, Feb 4-Mar 7, Ben Shahn Galleries, Wayne, NJ
2008 Delta National Small Prints Exhibition, Jan 17 - Feb 17, Arkansas State University, Bradbury Gallery, AR
2008 The Art of Love: Erotic to Romantic, Jan 4-25, Charlotte Art League, Charlotte, NC
2007 Northville Print Show, Oct 5- Nov 4, Northville, MI
2007 ACPS 64th Members Exhibition, The Plastic Club, Philadelphia, PA - Jeanne Claire Award
2007 Fall Into Art, Charlotte Art League, Oct 5 - Oct 26, Charlotte, NC - Merit Award
2007 ArtFest of Matthews, Matthews, NC - Best of Show
2007 Fall N2 Arts Festival, Columbia, SC - First Place
2007 Outside Looking In, Charlotte Art League, Charlotte, NC - Second Place
2007 "Russian Block Party" Exhibition, Sep 3-Aug 3, Crow Valley Gallery, Eastsound, WA
2007 SAGA 74th Member Show, The Old Print Shop, July 9-Aug 17, New York, NY
2007 27th Annual National Print Exhibition at Artlink, May 25- July 5, Fort Wayne, IN
2007 Spring Into Art Juried Show, Charlotte Art League, April 13 - May 11, Charlotte, NC - First Place Award
2007 World Affairs Conference Exhibition, University of Nebraska, Kearney, NE
2006 Delta National Small Prints Exhibition, Arkansas State University, Bradbury Gallery, AR - Purchase Award
2006 Printmaking Currents, Print Arts Northwest, Portland, OR
2006 Seeing God, Dadian Gallery, Washington, DC
2006 25th Annual Print Exhibition, Silvermine Guild Galleries, New Canaan, CT
2006 INK and IDEA, Platt Gallery, University of Judaism, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Sun and Shadow, The Tang Gallery, Bisbee, AZ
2006 The Transferred Image, 33 Collective Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006 26th Annual National Print Exhibition at Artlink, Fort Wayne, IN
2006 The Art of Printmaking, Spring Bull Gallery, Newport, RI
2006 61st Exhibition of American Color Print Society, The Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA - Honorable Mention
2006 Impressit, A Curated Exhibition of Artist-Pulled Prints, Mar 23 - Apr 20, Minnetonka Center for the Arts, Wayzata, MN
2006 Los Angeles Printmaking Society Juried Membership Exhibition, Jan 6 - Jan 26, Creative Art Center, Burbank, CA
2006 Border Crossings, The Ink Shop Printmaking Center & Olive Branch Press, Nov 4, 2005 - Jan 17, 2006 Ithaca, NY
2006 Los Angeles Printmaking Society, The New Members Show, Nov 10, 2005- Jan 7, 2006, Downtown Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005 60th Members Exhibition of American Color Print Society, Nov 6- Nov 23, The Plastic Club, Philadelphia, PA - Honorable Mention
2005 Delta National Small Prints Exhibition, Oct 21-Nov 18, Bradbury Gallery, Arkansas State University
2005 Another View 2: Selected Works from Contemporary American Printmakers, Oct 24- Nov 17, Saddleback College Art Gallery, Mission Viejo, CA
2005 Washington Printmakers National Small Works Exhibition, Washington, DC
2005 The Print Show, MFA City Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2005 Watermark 2005 - Works on Paper, Southeastern Community College, Whiteville, NC
2005 25th Annual National Print Exhibition at Artlink, Fort Wayne, IN
2005 59th Members Exhibition of American Color Print Society, The American College, Bryn Mawr, PA
2005 IMPRINTED: Contemporary Printmaking, El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, NM
2005 58th National Open Print Exhibition, American Color Print Society, Cheltenham, PA
2005 18th Parkside National Small Print Exhibition, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha, WI
2004 Art and Antique Show, Waxhaw, NC
2004 Naked Truths: Women and Love, StoneMetal Press, San Antonio, TX
2003 Delta National Small Prints Exhibition, Bradbury Gallery, Arkansas State University
2003 Printmaking: Personal Impressions, Makeready's Gallery 214 ArtSpace, Montclair, NJ
2003 Studies in Black and White, Blue Pony Art Gallery, Charlotte, NC
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