Light Waves is an exhibition of sculptures and chromograms by Los Angeles based artist Natalja Kent. These works explore analog processes, color and our relationship to the changing oceans. By combining movement meditation, colored light, light sensitive paper and painterly gestures – Kent reflects her feeling tones of the ocean’s presence and healing within abstract color-fields. Playful shapes, glowing forms and angles emerge and tangle across the richly layered surfaces. The chromograms – color and movement photograms – that result are both elegant and uncanny, they hearken back to her long hours spent in the ocean as a dedicated surfer and ocean activist.

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Light Moves, 2022 Situations Gallery at Foreland, Catskill, NY

Movement Artifact I, 2019 Ladies’ Room, Los Angeles, CA

Static Transmission, 2016 186 Carpenter, Providence, RI

Fortune Underneath, 2012 186 Carpenter, Providence, RI

Feminine Object, 2012 Dirt Palace, Providence, RI

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SELECTED TWO PERSON AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Atmospheres, Pace Gallery, New York, NY 2021

Orchids: Attraction and Deception, Barry Art Museum, Norfolk, VA 2021

Good Witch/Bad Witch, Museum of Museums, Seattle, WA, 2021

Camera Obscura Artist Residency Group Exhibition, 2019, Santa Monica, CA

Other Places Art Fair, 2019, San Pedro, CA

Absence 2019 Curated by Christina Valentine, Los Angeles location TBD

Cinders Gallery/ New York Art Book Fair Presentation 2018 PS1 MOMA

Color Cue: Explorations in Perception 2018 Center, Santa Fe

Humble Arts Group Show #52 2017 Alternative Facts

Raid The Icebox 2015 RISD Museum, Providence, RI

Humble Arts Group Show #47 2015 Space Jamz

Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Fellowship Exhibit 2015 Dodo Hamilton Gallery, Salve Regina University, Newport, RI

100 2014 Machines With Magnets, Pawtucket, RI

Living As Form 2014 Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Fellowship Exhibit 2011 Westerly Co-operative Gallery, Westerly, RI

Night For Day 2010 AS220 Project Space, Providence, RI

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow 2009 Stairwell Gallery, Providence, RI

Secret Rooms of the Dirt Palace Pt.3 2008 Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA

New Obstructions 2008 Mercantile Block, Providence, RI

Secret Rooms of the Dirt Palace Pt. 2 2008 PS1 MOMA, WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, Queens, New York

Secret Rooms of the Dirt Palace Pt. 1 2007 Hera Gallery, Westerly, RI

Art of Music 2007 Secret Project Robot, Brooklyn, NY

Dirty Hands 2006 Cinders Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Absorb Viral Fantasy Attack (AVAF) 2006 Hiromi Yoshii, Tokyo, Japan

AVAF XII 2005 Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England

AVAF XI 2004 Rosa De la Cruz Collection Space, Key Biscayne, FL

Possessions in the Waves 2004 Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH

Unframed First Look 2004 Sean Kelly, New York, NY

Underexposed 2004 Tyler Gallery, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

Hearth and Home 2003 Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY

John Knows Best 2003 White Box Annex, New York, NY

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SELECT PERFORMANCES, LECTURES AND RESIDENCIES

Google Artist in Residency, 2020

Santa Monica Artist in Residency, 2019-2020

Artist’s Lecture 2020 Lighbox Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA

Artist in Residence 2019 Camera Obscura, Santa Monica, California

Artist in Residency 2019 Ladies’ Room, Los Angeles, CA

Guest Artist – Year of Light Workshop 2016 Materials Lab, Harvard Art Museums

Dirt Palace Remix -- Living As Form 2014 Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Querent /The Dirt Palace performance 2008 PS1 MOMA, WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, Queens, New York

Artist Lecture 2007 School of Visual Arts, New York, New York

The Good Good (in conjunction with AVAF) 2006 Hiromi Yoshi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

The Good Good (in conjunction with AVAF) 2005 Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England

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PUBLICATIONS, AWARDS AND ALBUMS

The Blashka Glass Flowers of Harvard University 2020 Scala Publications

Wired Magazine, Making Beautiful Darkroom Images Without A Camera, 2019

Voyage LA Feature, 2019

Group Study, Unusual Colors, 2019

Mirror Door 2016 Artists’ Book with Music CD

Rhode Island State Council on the Arts 2014 Photography Fellowship Award

Rhode Island Council on the Arts 2011 Photography Merit Award

Modern Women, Women Artists at the 2010 Museum of Modern Art, NY, Book

A And P Quarterly 2008 Interview with the Women of the Dirt Palace

Querent V 2008 Artists’ Book with CD of Music

The Good Good/ Japanther, Vinyl 7” 2007

The Good Good/ Querent, Janpanther Vinyl 7” 2007

The Good Good/ Chocolat Billy, 12” Vinyl 2007 Artists’ Book

A Fem Era – The Good Good 2003 Vinyl 12” and Book