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J. Natasha Kostan
310-473-1796
jnatashak@verizon.net
www.jnatashakostan.com
J. Natasha Kostan lives and works in Los Angeles and has been painting in multi-media for the past 30 years. She has studied Fashion and Interior Design in England and Fine Arts and Art History in the United States, and received her BFA from Immaculate Heart College. Her work includes oils, acrylics, mixed media and collage on canvas and on paper.
She studied printmaking extensively under Maurizio Barattucci, a well-known and highly respected artist and instructor. The printmaking process has been an inspiration for developing intriguing primary surfaces and the metamorphosis of Natasha’s works on paper. Natasha states: Ancient, and far away places and their unique moods created by light and changing color evoke intense responses and compel me to create my work. In order to capture every mood to my personal satisfaction, the surfaces have to be superimposed and juxtaposed, creating major and minor accents with some kind of harmony.
Her eclectic style is a manifestation of her multi-hued vision of the world. Her work expresses her experience of living in and traveling through several cultures. “Her palette reflects warmth, balance and strength,” said the late Barbara Hagar, California artist, teacher and mentor with whom Natasha studied for many years. Numerous corporations as well as private collectors throughout the United States and England own her paintings. She has exhibited in solo and in group shows in the U.S and Armenia.
“My works generally are the result of a continuous refinement of established techniques and experimentation painted on canvas or paper with mixed media materials. Mostly subjects are based on abstracted impressions and memories of different architectural sites I have visited throughout the world. Ancient, and far away places and their unique moods created by light and changing color evoke intense responses and compel me to create my work. In order to capture every mood to my personal satisfaction, the surfaces have to be superimposed and juxtaposed, creating major and minor accents with some kind of harmony.
I feel that the completion of my paintings is a journey unto itself, of color and feelings. At times I insert snapshots and add text in different languages representing my fascination with different peoples and cultures in the world. I try to enable the viewer to enter these timeless places that were once inhabited, and now exist only in my mind.”
EDUCATION
1980 BFA - Immaculate Heart College, L.A CA
1983 UCLA Adult Education Credential (ART and ESL)
1972 Interior Design Guild, Beverly Hills, CA
1954 - 1956 Barrett St. School of Fashion Design London UK
1955 Paris Academy - Fashion Design Studies London UK
EXHIBITIONS
2009 Blue 7 Gallery, “Caution, Fragile, Bodies,”Santa Monica, CA
. 2009 Brand Library, “Man’s Inhumanity to Man: Journey out of Darkness”,Glendale. CA.
2009 Community Art Gallery, St. John’s Hospital, Santa Monica, CA. 2008 Lark On Line Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
2008 H. Kazan Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, CA “Holiday Showcase Exhibition”
2008 TARFEST- KCC Galleries – (Juror: Howard N. Fox - Curator/Modern Art - LACMA)
. 2008 J Paul GETTY Underground Exhibit, Los Angeles, CA.
2008 City of Brea Art Gallery - “Made in California”, Juror: G. Williams Sander, (Norton Simon)
2008 University of Michigan, Anne Arbor, MI – “rEVOLTION – Making Art for Change”
2008 H. Kazan Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, CA “Voices of our Time”
2007 H. Kazan Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, CA “Transitions”
2007 Mar Vista Arts Gallery, Culver City, CA
2007 VIVA Gallery, Studio City, CA (Mixing Materials and Personalities)
2007 The Source on the Lake, Pasadena CA
2007 Blue 7 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (Duo Exhibit)
*** J.Natasha Kostan has had numerous exhibitions previous to 2007 ***
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* None of the artworks may be copied or reproduced without the written permission of the Artist