Nathaniel Mather at Rice Polak Gallery
Hailing from Nashville Tennessee, I have the great pleasure of welcoming Nathaniel Mather to the gallery!
The paintings of Nathaniel Mather with their rich textures and rough-edged patches of color evoke early 19th century primitive art, and yet a rich symbolic allusiveness and playfulness of spirit gives this narrative work a sophistication and poise that are emphatically contemporary.
Mather claims that his work was influenced by the design genius of Motherwell and the color and texture of Klee. “As I developed my own style and voice I started to combine several mediums including acrylic paint, oil pastel, paper, ink and sand on canvas. I start each painting with color, line and texture and allow the markings to follow their own story, rearranging, adding and subtracting, layer by layer.”
“The process mirrors how I experience life, bit by bit, day by day adding up to something I could not have imagined at the beginning of the painting. It also allows me to express emotions, allows for improvisation and taps into a place I cannot arrive to any other way. That’s the gift painting has given me and I try to share that experience with the viewer.”
The gallery will be open on Saturday’s throughout the month of April. Please stop by or email or give me a call at 508-237-5499 with any questions or inquiries. And please visit our website as new work is arriving daily!
