Pressroom

Below are downloadable resources for media, collectors and other interested parties. If you are looking for print quality images, an exhibition proposal or specifications sheet, provenance information, or other materials please feel free to contact Natalie here.

Releases:

Feb-27-2009
High Honors: An Exhibition of Artwork by the 2008 Wisconsin Arts Board Visual Arts Fellows
James Watrous Gallery,
Overture Center for the Arts, Madison, WI, USA
March 24 - May 10, 2009
→ Read the review in the Wisconsin State Journal's 77 Squared (Apr-19-2009)

Jan-9-2009
The Natural Motif: New Drawings by Natalie Settles
The Charles Allis Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, USA
February 4 - May 3, 2009
→ Read the review in the Shepherd Express (Mar-30-2009)

Jan-1-2008
2008 Wisconsin Arts Board Fellowship Award
January, 1 2008


Background PDFs:

(updated 4-14-2009)

Biography

Natalie Settles earned an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2003. She has exhibited nationally and internationally since 1999 including venues in Norway, Brazil, New York, Chicago, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and California among others. Settles interned at the Smithsonian Institution in 2003 as a modelmaker and sculptor, fashioning objects for the National Museums of Natural History, American History, and the American Indian. From anatomy and anthropomorphism to domestication and minimalism, Settles' work has engaged the often-parallel concerns of art and science. Her work has lead to collaborative projects with researchers in biochemistry, zoology, and physiology. In 2007 she lived and worked in Cambridge, UK independently researching Victorian design and topics in biology for her current work in the Natural Motif series of drawings on paper and wall. Settles is a 2008 Wisconsin Arts Board Fellow now based in Pittsburgh, PA.