🌷 Welcome to the stage... W EDITIONS + NEW RELEASE!

Hello newsletter subscribers!

Thank you for being so patient with me, I know some of you have been subscribed for up to a year…

It’s Nathan, btw! I’m thrilled to announce (finally!) the launch of my new venture W Editions.

To commemorate this new beginning, I collaborated with artist Natalie Lerner on a brand new original, limited-edition print: Sewing Kit.

Sewing Kit is a lithograph on chine collé—a process that involves printing onto a hair-thin sheet of Japanese gampi paper and adhering it to a thicker cotton paper all in one pass through the press.

The challenges this print presented were both exciting and frustrating; however, despite the challenges, we made a full edition of really great quality prints, which are now available!

Before any of the prints could be made, each sheet of gampi paper had to have wheat paste brushed on by hand.

The result is a incredibly deep natural tone that really warms up the entire image which was printed only in one color—a basic black ink.

You can add Sewing Kit to your own personal art collection now! Presale is now online.

MORE ABOUT THE EDITION

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In Sewing Kit, the dark loose thread, decorated with spirals, pins, and marbles, winds around the frame of the paper; the object, in my eyes, stems from the Greek myth of the three fates. The trio are godly old crones who could weave and snip a thread to begin or end someone’s life.

Recently, I took a trip to Los Angeles and stayed with my mother. We spent the days having a coffee on her front stoop, running errands, book hunting, and carting things home from the farmers market; This was a sudden recreation of my Florida childhood acted out in the many sprawling blocks of LA.   

While cutting up these new apples, I thought of the sinking and darkening areas of the skin if gone uneaten, and I thought of keeping the doctor away. How the fruit is referent to health and schooling, an early form of schedule. I thought about the same way we prefer to have things in the kitchen, how we look down with the same eyes. We can see the apple disappearing and I think of time.

— Natalie Lerner

About Natalie

Natalie Lerner (b. 1992, Sarasota, FL) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received a BFA from Ringling College of Art & Design in 2014, where she participated in the AICAD/NY Independent Study Program. She was a resident of the Orein Arts Residency in 2023. She’s exhibited in the US and abroad, including 839 Gallery, Parent Company Gallery, SEPTEMBER, Underdonk, Mouse Gallery, Feinkunst Krüger (Hamburg, Germany), Picture Theory Gallery, Stockton University, Camayuhs, Left Field Gallery, Underground Flower (Fremantle, Australia), and Geoffrey Young Gallery.

She is currently represented by 839 Gallery in Los Angeles, CA.

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