Opalka Gallery welcomes artist Nathaniel Donnett for an informal lecture. This talk will be on zoom at this link: https://russell-sage.zoom.us/j/9508845079

Included in Opalka’s current exhibition, “Shifting Gaze: A Reconstruction of the Black and Hispanic Body in Contemporary Art,” Nathaniel Donnett is a multi-disciplinary artist who works and lives in Houston, TX. He is currently in residency at MCLA’s Art Lab in North Adams, MA. Donnett is interested in the metaphysical and phenomenological connections between imagination and experience. His piece, “Reflect 6,” on display at Opalka, features a portrait of a young girl holding a mirror–a painting made on patched together brown paper bags. Using varied materials while juxtaposing unrelated ideas to depict the poetics in the everyday, Donnett seeks to find the nuance and meaning in the overlooked and undervalued, revealing humanity’s imaginative and practical cosmologies.