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Natalie Kuenzi

Natalie Kuenzi explores ideas of growth, movement, and acceptance. Working across high and low art media, her sculptures and installations embody seemingly incongruous states simultaneously. Using tactile and accessible materials—clay and plastic—and motifs from natural and built environments, the forms are both real and unreal, amplifying the tension between what is fixed and what is free and evoking parallels between natural and supernatural forces. The formal constraints—both familiar and strange—ultimately arrive at a balance that is at once specific and boundless. Kuenzi’s work cites traditions of craft and art making that celebrate the artist and viewer as agents of change and connection. She is curious about the distinctions drawn between hobby craft and fine art practices within American contemporary art—especially as they relate to cultivating community and creating social change. Kuenzi is interested in balancing artist let efforts to foster connection and imbue form with meaning by using craft as an entry point for making, transforming commonplace materials and expressing open-ended, unstructured ideas. Inspired by her own personal heritage, her work honors family tradition and challenges the hierarchy associated with art media, with an eye towards specific and meaningful action to address solutions for a changing world. Through reclamation, material innovation, and the liberating power of the imagination, Kuenzi seeks to transform how we make, how we consume, and how we connect through creative expression.
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