Nathalie Guarracino

bio

Nathalie Guarracino was born and grew up in the Cevennes Mountain region of southern France. From a young age she revealed a passion for drawing and painting, spending hours working in pencils, pastels, and gouaches on paper.

She moved to the US at the age of 22 where she graduated from Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts with a BFA focusing on painting. While at Rutgers she was awarded the Caroline Wagenseller Prize — first prize for excellence in the visual arts. Guarracino studied with well-known NYC painters Emma Amos and Joan Semmel, and sculptors Gary Kuehn and Melvin Edwards.
Upon graduation she moved to New York City. Her studio is currently located in midtown Manhattan.

Working primarily with oil on canvas, Guarracino takes her inspiration from the contrast between the natural and the industrial, the kinetic and the static, the light and the dark. She is captivated by the combination of these different textures, colors, and dynamics. “I look to unite by dividing and to harmonize by setting up tensions.”

Nathalie Guarracino has exhibited throughout the US and France. She was featured in a 1999 documentary by Nelsena Burt. Her work is in collections in both North America and Europe.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2004- Gallerie Odile Mauve, Paris, France
2001- Woodenhead Gallery, Key West, Florida
1996- Chapelle de Le Vigan, Le Vigan, France
1995- La Mediatheque de Pezenas, Pezenas, France

Selected Group Exhibitions

2007- Conrad Wilde Gallery, “Per Square Foot”, Tucson, AZ
2007- Studio 37, All studio artists group show, New York, New York
2007- Selby Fleetwood Gallery, All gallery artists group show, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2006- Studio 37, “Blip”, New York, New York
2006- Studio 37, All studio artists group show, 2005- Gallerie Odile Mauve, Paris, France
2003- Baker Center for the Arts, Juried Exhibition, Liberal, Kansas
2003- Earl Gallery, New York City painters, New York, New York
1999- Art Tank Gallery, New York artists, New York, New York
1998- The Art Machine Gallery, New York City painters, New York, New York
1997- Tenri Gallery, New York City artists in relation with Tenri Japanese Institute, New York, New York
1996- Earl Gallery, New York City painters, New York, New York
1994- The Raritan Valley Gallery, “The Faculty Invites”, Sommerville, New Jersey
1993- Walter Hall Gallery, Relative Foundations, New Brunswick, New Jersey

Documentary

1999- Featured artist in the documentary “ Artist from the meat packing district”, directed by Nelsena Burt
Chelsea, New York City

Awards

Caroline Wagenseller Prize
First Prize of Excellence in the Visual Arts from Rutgers University

Education

BFA from Rutgers University