Michael Nauert
Slipping in and out of the familiar through abstract mark-making,
my paintings draw parallels between nature and human nature.
Paint application ranges from thin, willowy, fanglike strokes to
thick juicy plumages of clustered marks. These shapes coalesce
into landscape and figure, eventually dissipating into abstract
impressions. My hope is that viewers will encounter their inner
realities by engaging the work’s limbo state.
Within this innate reflection, I question the potential fears and
inspirations, the knowns and unknowns the observers might
meet in themselves. This interaction mirrors the sublime that
landscape painting historically aspired to. My goal is to uncover
the possible hidden landscapes of being human: who we are,
our bodies as organic technology, and humans as spirit beings.