American, French born artist Nathalie Chikhi began her practice with painting & drawing, before moving to sculpture, video, and large-scale installations. Her work is intricate, fragile and play with temporality, and it doesn’t fit in a visual genre, but is informed by this concept of “impermanence”, which she sees as a reflection of our physical life. Her mixed media work is based on self-exploration, thoughtful randomness and imperfection in a way that it invites viewers to interrogate, examine the artist’s vision and the possible reason of their spatial arrangement.
About
Nathalie Chikhi is an abstract modern contemporary artist based in Texas, United States, practicing in the field of painting, drawing, art installations, video art, textile, NFTs and Generative AI art.
Statement
After few years focusing on art installations, I’ve decided to come back to paintings. As I grow slowly this picturesque body of work, I have found a visual signature by layering accidental textured paints, with more thoughtful accents of oil sticks, over the canvas. The various landscapes illustrates abstract interpretation of nature, such as clouds, mountains or architectural details. The aesthetic language uses lines, cloudy effects and dark colors animated by subtle string of hues underneath the upper layer. The interpretation is left to the viewer who will determinate a meaning of the rendered pictorial images.