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Natalie Schmidt
Dotzauer
If Walls Could Talk
May 3 – June 3, 2007
Opening Reception:
5-8pm
First Thursday, May 3, 2007
Enter Punch Gallery this month and look down. Traffic,
an interactive floor piece, lies underfoot. Deep wear marks
suggest a pattern of untidy living and the act of backing oneself
into a corner. Traffic is one of several pieces canvassing
the gallery in May where the artist Natalie Schmidt Dotzauer
investigates routines and histories of human habitation through
her installations of domestic fragments and hand-printed wallpaper
designs.
Schmidt Dotzauer’s domestic installations explore the
connection between a physical space and one’s internal
dialog. Schmidt Dotzauer, wallpaper’s decorative balance
of color and design becomes a backdrop for her characteristically
ironic and cheeky commentary on human activity. Using subtle
and subversive pictographic narratives, she laces old adages
into these flocked and fancy wallpaper patterns. If Walls
Could Talk further explores relationships between people
and their dwelling spaces by appropriating both deliberate and
incidental patterns of daily living such as catalog designs,
coffee stains, and chairs rubbing against surfaces. By doing
so, Schmidt Dotzauer feels her works become imagined vestiges
that can conger nostalgic feelings, charged memories and latent
desires.
Schmidt Dotzauer worked for a salvage company before embarking
on a quest for higher learning. She received her MFA at California
College of the Arts and moved to Thorp, Washington where she
and her husband are currently restoring a historic building.
Schmidt Dotzauer was a 2006 Artist Trust GAP award recipient
and her work was included in Softly Threatening: Artwork
of the Modern Domestic at Bumbershoot 2006.
Hours: Noon-5pm Friday-Sunday, or
by appointment.
Next Exhibition:
Patricia Hagen
(more info)
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Wine ‘em, Dine ‘em… (detail). 2007,
Hand-printed
wallpaper w/ flocking on found wood, 18"x20"
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