In Space_in_Between, Steven Natal assembles an ecosystem of different images and connects them together to form a unique visual narrative. Inspired by the concept of subtext and negative spaces, Natal constructs a series of stories that capture the essence of transitional areas in which meaning takes shape, independent of any articulated explanation. He projects silent gestures into his work, allowing the viewer to transcend surface-level understanding and develop a deeper and more personal connection towards the imagery presented before them. Because within the utilization of these spaces, he gives his audience a hollow, bare spot that they can fill with their own experiences and interpretations. These are spaces of the mundane, the things we fail to notice but feel nonetheless, the silent moments that speak to us through the unsaid, and through this void; this tiny hushed universe, we find something so new, and yet it was something that has always been there. This perhaps is the general feeling that Natal’s work emanates: an obscure sorrow, a nostalgia for a memory that one has never known, an invisible beauty floating within the banal and the unknown, a word that we couldn’t really pinpoint, but yet our heart knows it as it is spoken by the gestures of our own soul.
-Dave Lock
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Subdivision Lot 1
STEVEN NATAL
Oil on canvas
14 x 16 inches
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Subdivision Lot 2
STEVEN NATAL
Oil on canvas
24 x 31 inches
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Subdivision Lot 3
STEVEN NATAL
Oil on canvas
18 x 38 inches
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Subdivision Lot 4
STEVEN NATAL
Oil on canvas
26 x 28 inches
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Subdivision Lot 5
STEVEN NATAL
Oil on canvas
26 x 30 inches
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Familiar Corners Phase 1
STEVEN NATAL
Oil on canvas, wood and acrylic sheet
46 x 54 inches
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Familiar Corners Phase 2
STEVEN NATAL
Oil on canvas, wood and acrylic sheet
50 x 58.5 inches
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Familiar Corners Phase 3
STEVEN NATAL
Oil on canvas, wood and acrylic sheet
50 x 56 inches
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Encounter
STEVEN NATAL
Oil on canvas
36 x 36 inches
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STEVEN NATAL
Oil on canvas
30 x 52 inches
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Temporary Erasures 01
STEVEN NATAL
Oil on canvas
14.5 x 10 inches
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Temporary Erasures 02
STEVEN NATAL
Oil on canvas
16 x 11.5 inches
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Temporary Erasures 03
STEVEN NATAL
Oil on canvas
12.5 x 10 inches
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Temporary Erasures 04
STEVEN NATAL
Oil on canvas
14.5 x 11.5 inches
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Temporary Erasures 05
STEVEN NATAL
Oil on canvas
14 x 11 inches
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Temporary Erasures 06
STEVEN NATAL
Oil on canvas
10.5 x 8.5 inches
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Temporary Erasures 07
STEVEN NATAL
Oil on canvas
16 x 13 inches
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Temporary Erasure 08
STEVEN NATAL
Oil on canvas
13.5 x 10.5 inches
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Temporary Erasure 09
STEVEN NATAL
Oil on canvas
18.5 x 13.5 inches
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Temporary Erasure 10
STEVEN NATAL
Oil on canvas
19 x 19 inches
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Temporary Erasure 11
STEVEN NATAL
Oil on canvas
12 x 18 inches
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Temporary Erasures 12
STEVEN NATAL
Oil on canvas
18 x 14 inches
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Temporary Erasures 13
STEVEN NATAL
Oil on canvas
13.5 x 10.5 inches
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Temporary Erasures 14
STEVEN NATAL
Oil on canvas
15 x 11.5 inches
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Temporary Erasures 15
STEVEN NATAL
Oil on canvas
12 x 10 inches
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Temporary Exposures 16
STEVEN NATAL
Oil on canvas
14 x 10 inches
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Temporary Exposures 17
STEVEN NATAL
Oil on canvas
12 x 12 inches
2024