Natalie Collette “Wood Splendour”

Freight and Volume

[Image: Natalie Collette "A Rose at Dawn, Broke by Noon" (2019) Digital print, acrylic, ink, and mixed media on canvas, 63 x 124 in.]

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Freight+Volume presents Natalie Collette Wood Splendour - the debut exhibition of mixed media collages by Natalie Collette Wood.

The work in Splendour features keyed up versions of a fantasy life filled with fast cars, wild animals, and Vegas dancers distorted through repetition, physical rupture, and aggressive painting. The works have a transcendental element - feeling both familiar but also beyond physical and spiritual limitations and possibilities. Wood’s new work departs from a series of found photographs of Wood’s mother dancing to “House of the Rising Sun” in 1968 at the Tropicana Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. The photographs function as a starting point for futuristic universes and psychedelic dreamscapes that are created first through handmade collages and then translated into large-scale media collages.