Lot 85: Nathan Slate Joseph "Untitled Longweld", 2008 Pure Pigments, Steel

NATHAN SLATE JOSEPH has been an integral part of The New York School of Art for thirty years. Joseph, born in 1943, trained at the Pratt Institute as well as the Art Students League of New York, and was nominated for a Guggenheim fellowship with the endorsement of sculptor John Chamberlain in 1979. Nathan Joseph is shown internationally, worldwide. His work is in many private collection and several museums. Joseph developed his unique methodology – seen in this show – in the 1970’s when, like Frank Stella, Carl Andre, and John Chamberlain, he began working with found objects. It was during a trip to Mexico in the ’70s that Joseph began to work with his characteristically vivid color palette. As he said, “They just have a way with color, so I was trying to get that in my work.” Joseph developed an affinity for industrial urban materials and simplified forms but he wanted however to carve out an aesthetic identity that went beyond the overt visual effect of real objects. Chamberlain has said of Joseph, “His mental capabilities reverberate off the canvas, or so it seems to me.” In the '60s and ‘70s, Joseph, powerfully aware of the alarming degradation and exploitation of the natural world, started engaging nature to create his art. This was an important breakthrough to which he then coalesced an earlier interest in the Russian Constructivist aesthetic with his urban aesthetic and concern for nature.

30" x 24" x 2"

Pure Pigments, Steel

2008

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Artist's Studio