Alicia Nauta
Alicia Nauta is a Toronto based artist. She makes screenprinted posters, prints, wallpaper, installations, books, printed textiles and other multiples. Her focus is on analog ways of making, using xerox material culled from older publications found in thrift stores and reference libraries to create collaged compositions. The natural vs. manufactured world are often in tension with each other in her work; spaces are inhabited by plants and strange, shifting perspectives, suggesting possibility found in the uncertain and unwritten future. The compositions reflect on the dualities and exchanges present in all forms of human and natural life: with light, there is darkness; with progress, there is a decline. Much of her work serves as speculative windows into past, present and future realities. She is interested in multiples, created through various print methods, for their democratic and accessible qualities. Her work has been shown at the Toronto Public Reference Library, the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto Ferry Terminal Docks, Gallery 44, Art Metropole, Burnaby Public Library (BC), Printed Matter (US) and Koganecho Art Centre (JP). She is currently the artist in residence at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Her giant collaborative book and library project and exhibiton, 'A book from the world tomorrow' was supposed to open March 14, 2020.
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