Nathaniel Gosman is a self-taught artist who seeks to illuminate the spaces between. He’s honed a visual language to explore philosophical and emotional dualities: local and universal, signal and noise, memory and place. Working in a range of found and fabricated media, including paper, wood, metal and photographs, Gosman creates singular pieces that reveal contrast, depth and rhythm.
Gosman grew up in the Midwest rust belt where he was fascinated by both the industrial decay and nature’s resilience. As a boy, he spent Sundays at his grandparent’s home surrounded by an art collection they started in the early 1950’s, including works by Rauschenberg, Dubuffet, and Avery. He was inspired by family stories of the sculptor Mark Di Suvero visiting his great uncle’s junk yard to source materials and Gosman similarly became interested in assembling objects into experimental creations.
As a young man, Gosman refined this experimentalism in the music domain, co-founding the electronic and hip label Sound-Ink Records in Brooklyn, NY, where he produced works with luminaries like MF Doom. Since then, Gosman completed his graduate studies in Energy Systems and has worked for the past 12 years advancing clean energy while developing his art practice. Nathaniel lives with his wife and two sons on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
See more of Nathaniel's work on IG at @nathanielgosmanart
StatementMy works construct a visual language to explore the superposition of lived experience, asking the viewer to collapse their own unique meaning. Deus sive natura.
