Nathalie O’Brien at The Ramp Gallery

Featured image: The Lovers

About the exhibition

My Itemized Pink Home

Nathalie O’Brien’s current body of work explores possessions and how they interact with identity, home, and ancestry. She uses a mixture of figurative and still life painting techniques to explore how personal possessions and loved ones are essential to one’s home environment. The artist believes that a home is created by the people who live in it and the objects they brought to the space, whether it’s collected or passed down. Her creative process varies, she works with acrylic paint and glitter glue, creating medium to large scale paintings on canvas and wood panels, ranging from creating collages in her sketchbook for figurative paintings, to taking pictures of her possessions for her still life paintings.

Nathalie’s exhibition is on view from December 12, 2021–February 7, 2022

About the artist

Nathalie O’Brien received a BA with a Concentration in Studio Art in 2020. She is currently a Studio Artist at Root Division and has exhibited her work in Introductions 2020, Root Division’s Annual Auction, and Art Auction 2021 for the Coalition on Homeless.

To learn more about their work please visit nathalieobrien.com

Artwork in the show

Small case

Bangles
Acrylic and glitter glue on wood panel
32” x 24”
2021

Big case
Left to right

Hearts
Acrylic on canvas
24″ x 18″
2021

Gold Chain
Acrylic and glitter glue on canvas
24″ x 18″
2021

The Lovers
Acrylic on canvas
24″ x 18″
2020

The Ramp Gallery is an artist-driven exhibition space at SOMArts that is currently accepting applications for four-week long solo and group shows. An opportunity for entrepreneurial artists to ramp up their careers by exhibiting at one of San Francisco’s most dynamic hubs for art and community, the high-visibility location of The Ramp Gallery is adjacent to the main entrance of SOMArts and open to all local artists in the Bay Area. To learn more about the space please visit, The Ramp Gallery.