Willa  Nasatir’s  photographic  practice  investigates  the  legacy  and  limits  of  photography through  her  unique,  analogue  manipulation  of  the  medium.  Working  across  saturated, chromogenic panels and spectral, silver gelatin prints, Nasatir masks and transforms everyday objects to the point of the surreal. Beginning with a sculptural tableau in the studio, these bricolage constructions feature cast-offs and found detritus that take on symbolic weight for Nasatir in their gradual accumulation and repetition, as characters or cues in a larger narrative construct. Once surfaced in her final photographs, these initial sculptural elements take on the air of illusion, often photographed and re-photographed to the point of fracture and obscurity. In her paintings, Nasatir exploits the material conditions of painting through processes of layering  and  erasure,  distorting  images  that  begin  as  recognizable  into  abstraction.  Her paintings explore the dissociation between what is depicted and what is seen.

Chapter NY

New York City

Los Angeles

Deitch Projects

Morán Morán

Simon Lee Gallery

Berlin

Oracle

Köln

Drei

Hester Gallery

Company Gallery

Brooklyn

321 Gallery

Honolulu

Spf Projects

François Ghebaly

White Columns

Public Art Fund

New Museum of Contemporary Art

Del Vaz Projects

Buffalo

Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Philadelphia

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Whitney Museum of American Art

Willa Nasatir

Brick

Chest

Other Life #7 (Untitled)

Untitled (O)