Natalie Eva Clark is a Chicago-based fiber and installation artist, building imagined environments through hand-dyed color, layers of texture, and a legacy of handworked detail. Through the micro lens of her own matrilineage, her work explores the discordance and duality of belief systems in relationship to the natural world, myth and labor valuation between existences in rural self-sufficiency and contemporary urbanism.
These ideas inspire her choices of hand-dyed fibers, invented and traditional craft techniques, slow, sustainable materials, and the abstracted imagery with which she explores the blurred boundaries between reality, fantasy and the self-materialization of certainty.
Natalie has undergraduate degrees in Painting and Art History, and a Masters degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.