Natalie Jauregui-Ortiz (CV)

Natalie Jauregui-Ortiz is a visual artist of Mexican descent, living and working in Brooklyn, NY. She has exhibited her work nationally, including at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (Santa Cruz, CA), Southern Exposure (San Francisco, CA), The Greenpoint Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), The Sesnon Underground (Santa Cruz, CA), Local Project (Long Island City, NY), AlterWork Studios (Long Island City, NY), and Ground Floor Gallery (Brooklyn, NY). She has attended residencies at the New York Academy of Art (New York, NY) and at arts letters and numbers (Averill Park, NY). She holds a Bachelor of Arts with honors from the University of California - Santa Cruz.

Artist Statement

My work draws from visions and memories – images that echo; like residue that sticks and stains your hands. The paintings compose a disillusioned puzzle with missing pieces that leave behind an unresolved affection. Utilizing a myriad of intimate settings, gestural figures, and intuitive compositions, my paintings search for comfort. Shuffling through the tension of my intersectionality and in-betweenness, my work seeks to understand the lasting effects of intersecting, normative cycles. I paint intimate, intense moments that reflect back to striking images that echo.