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Nathan Aufrichtig

Nathan Aufrichtig

Born in Connecticut
BIO
Nathan Aufrichtig (b. 1975, Connecticut) is a contemporary abstract painter based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His practice explores gestural abstraction as a means of translating interior experience into visual form. Deeply intuitive and process-driven, his work is characterized by a nuanced sensitivity to surface, tone, and materiality. Raised in an artistic household, Aufrichtig was immersed in creative disciplines from an early age. His parents—both professional artists—instilled in him a foundational understanding of form, color, and craftsmanship. The influence of his father’s ceramic glazes continues to resonate in the tonal depth and layered surfaces of his paintings.
My practice centers on the subconscious as a generative force—a reservoir of latent imagery, emotion, and energy that I seek to access through abstraction. I approach painting not as a process of invention, but as one of discovery: an excavation of internal landscapes where color, form, and motion arise spontaneously and evolve into complex visual fields. When I close my eyes, I often encounter a black void that bursts into shifting, luminous scenes. These ephemeral visions—at first chaotic and fluid—gradually settle into more defined compositions as I translate them onto canvas. Through successive layers of texture and colors, I work toward a moment of stillness, when the painting begins to assert its presence and clarity emerges from ambiguity.
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