Natale Adgnot is a sculptor and fiber artist who uses mixed media to explore cognitive bias and logical fallacy. Best known for wall sculptures made of painted thermoplastic adhered perpendicularly onto panels, she increasingly incorporates a variety of materials that are emblematic of her personal history into her work.
Adgnot earned a BFA in graphic design in Texas and studied fashion in Paris, eventually becoming a dual American/French citizen. Her experience making garments for haute couture runways led her to focus on sculpture. Later, while living in Japan, she began using thermoplastic (an artist-grade shrink plastic) to work three-dimensionally and has expanded her mediums to include fabrics, horse hair, and other materials that signify all of these places.
She has been featured in solo and two-person exhibitions in the U.S., Canada, and Japan. Group exhibitions include SPRING/BREAK, “Black & White” at BWAC juried by Jenée-Daria Strand of the Brooklyn Museum, and “I was not born alone” at Transmitter. Adgnot is also the owner and director of the seasonal art gallery N/A Project Space and a curator-member of Underdonk gallery. She lives and works in Brooklyn and New Paltz, New York.
Statement
I use abstract sculpture to explore bias and faulty perception as byproducts of a monocultural upbringing. At its core, my practice is a dismantling of the dogma of my childhood. The daughter of a horse trainer in Texas, I was raised with little awareness of the world beyond my town and church. My exposure to different cultures and viewpoints came later while living in France and Japan.