The Pittsburgh Foundation and The Heinz Endowments have funded the artist’s independently initiated residency and project with the Tonsor Evolutionary Biology Laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh. This funding recognizes the ongoing work of the social sculpture, a living work of art in which the scientists and artist are seeking to shift and influence each
Tapped to be Assistant Curator and Essayist for The Warhol’s Museum’s exhibition of artist-industry collaborations
Factory Direct, The Andy Warhol Museum, opening June 23, 2012 The Andy Warhol Museum has invited the artist to serve as Assistant Curator for the museum’s upcoming exhibition Factory Direct featuring collaborative works between national and international artists and Pittsburgh industries. She will also write the main essay for the exhibition catalogue. Eric Shiner, former curator
Marginal: A New Wall Drawing Environment
Friesen Galleries, Northwest Nazarene University, Nampa, ID, Oct. 28, 2011 – Jan. 27, 2012, The new wall drawing environment Marginal populates the gallery’s interstitial spaces with a wallpaper pattern by the Victorian designer and botanist, Dr. Christopher Dresser. The artist replaced parts of Dresser’s pattern with drawings of individual Arabidopsis thaliana plants – the first
New works on paper at California Polytechnic
Sept. 30 – Oct. 29, 2011 Curator Jeff VanKleeck has included the drawings Chimera and External Factors in Drawn In, an exhibition of contemporary drawing practice by five diverse artists. Chimera and External Factors explore the tension between pattern and chaos in the natural world. The artist draws Victorian design motifs as blinding voids that
Settles to present at the National Academy of Sciences
Keck Center, Washington DC, Sept. 15, 2011, 5:30pm The artist has been invited to present her work based in the University of Pittsburgh Tonsor Laboratory of Plant Evolutionary Genetics at the DC Area Art and Science Rendezvous (DASER) at the National Academy of Sciences. watch the video: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Photo
Large-scale wall drawing commissioned for the 2011 Pittsburgh Biennial
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, June 10 – Oct. 23, 2011 Ornament and Architecture is a new large-scale wall drawing environment commissioned for the 2011 Pittsburgh Biennial. The work entitled Ornament and Architecture fills four walls and the ceiling of the gallery. This immersive drawing employs quotes from wallpaper motifs designed by Victorian designer and botanist
Invited to offer feedback during the New Art/Science Affinities Booksprint
Studio For Creative Inquiry, Carnegie Mellon University, February 18, 2011 Natalie Settles had the pleasure of offering feedback on the exciting booksprint led by curator Andrea Grover surveying current work at the art/science/technology interface. The booksprint is a fast an furious way of cataloguing the history and current interdisciplinary work among these fields to create a publication
Artist-in-Residence with an evolutionary biology laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh
Natalie Settles is embarking on a multi-year residency with the Tonsor Laboratory for Plant Evolutionary Genetics, University of Pittsburgh. The artist initiated this residency with the evolutionary biology laboratory as a social sculpture to potentially reshape each other’s practices in art and in science and to create the conditions for new work to emerge that
Artist’s Lecture about the Natural Motif series of drawings merging Victorian design and topics on biology
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, April 6, 2009 The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMoCA) is hosting a talk by Natalie Settles in the lecture hall at MMoCA. Settles will discuss her work, with a particular focus on the new drawings in the Natural Motif series. The talk will feature this new body of drawings,