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Nathan Anspaugh

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Nathan Anspaugh

Biography

Nate Anspaugh was born in Dayton, Ohio in 1981. He attended the University of Central Florida, earning his BFA in painting and graphic design in 2004. For 3 weeks in 2011 he was an artist in residence at Stiftung Starke in Berlin, Germany. For 2 weeks In 2008 he was an artist in residence in Caracas, Venezuela & Acarigua, Venezuela through the Venezuelan American Endowment for the Arts. His work has been exhibited at Pocket Utopia, Lower East Side, Manhattan / English Kills Gallery, Bushwick, Brooklyn / Centotto Gallery, Bushwick / Bushwick Gallery, @ the 2012 Fountain Art Fair @ Park Ave Armory, Manhattan / Gallery Bar, Lower East Side / Haven Fine Arts, Bronx, NY / Iron Works Gallery, Bronx, NY / Ryan Chelsea Clinton Center, Hells Kitchen, Manhattan. His work was included in a traveling exhibition sponsored by the Venezuelan American Endowment for the Arts, 5 x 5 Real 2013 / Real- Unreal, which showcased the work of ten emerging artists – five from the US and five from Venezuela. The exhibition was on view at the Museo de Art Acarigua Araure, in Venezuela from November 2012 – May 2013 and later in New York City from November 7th to December, 2013 at One Art Space, in Tribecca, Manhattan. Nathan Anspaugh lives and works in Berlin, Germany and is currently doing a residency program with the Stark Foundation. 

About the Artist…

Nathan Anspaugh’s mixed-media artworks consider how individual realities are shaped by advertising and other cultural forces. His stacked works—made from innumerable bits of appropriated street art and advertising—reference the stream of corporate and cultural messages that continually invade the individual’s consciousness in American society. What effect does this bombardment have on a person’s desires and motivations? Are these desires real, or created for them? Is an individual capable of parsing these messages and separating real thoughts and wants from those manufactured for them, or does the rush of messages push past one’s consciousness and shape one’s desire without their input? Anspaugh expresses this process through his three-dimensional masks and collages made of advertisements, and in the oil painting Gwynplaine, which takes its title from a character in Victor Hugo’s novel The Man Who Laughs. The character, with its grotesque smile, is at once delighted and appalled by its own insatiable, manufactured desires.

by Conor Risch, 2012

To download Nate Anspaugh complete resume  na_bio

Publications + Write-Ups

*MoMA P.S.1 Studio Visit

http://momaps1.org/studio-visit/artist/nate-anspaugh

*Scrape Off A Poster With Nate Anspaugh

Bushwick Daily , 06 September 2011

http://bushwickdaily.com/?p=4276

*Pro Tips from Bushwick Open Studios: Nate Anspaugh

The Bushwick Dream , June 2011

http://bushwickdream.com/news/s/313

*Penetrating Empathy

Perfect 8 Magazine , Issue 1 2006

http://www.perfecteight.com/issue1/PE_11.html

 

Contact information 

Nathan Anspaugh | antspaws@gmail.com 

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