Design Spotlight: Nat Lazakis

Our Design Spotlight falls on the lovely and colorful floral paintings of  Nat Lazakis, a new artist who joined GCU in December 2013.

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This garden-themed series explores the transformation of observed objects into visual memories. The point of departure is realistic depiction, but the goal is to gain insight into how we often tend to remember complex patterns, not discrete units. This ongoing process is suggested here through pictorial techniques which destabilize the boundaries between units. Distinct planes, for instance, are flattened into an exaggerated unity. What starts out as a crisp outline crumbles into a shadow. The empty spaces between individual plants collapse. Viewers are invited to reflect on the mysterious mental afterlife of a briefly glimpsed patch of ground.