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The dictionary definition is 'awesome'. Everything Natalie does, or is involved in, is pure mad genius. - Mark Doyle, Editor in Chief Tribe Magazine UK
Natalie Wetzel runs a multidisciplinary performance space, studio, residency, and creative hub called The Moon with photographer Mark Andrus. She makes insane kaleidoscopic costumes and sculptures, performs with bands at music festivals, produces music videos, and the list goes on. Her output seems unedited and manic, and it's all the better for it. - Kevin Buist, Exhibitions Director of Artprize (named Wetzel as one of top ten artists)
TOP TEN ARTIST LIVING IN GRAND RAPIDS Cultured.GR. by Kevin Buist
ALIEN ARTIST LIVES IN GREENVILLE NATIVE'S SKIN Daily Advocate front page feature article
DESERT DAZE GETS ETHEREAL OC Weekly
GLITTERUS DOES LEVITATION Tribe Magazine Spread
PERFORMING TRANSDISCIPLINARY CULTURE Tribe Magazine Spread
"It's like something out of a fairy tale you'll wish you could hear." --Ann Starr The Other Paper, Columbus, Ohio
Entertainment Weekly Release of Black English Hold On Music Video
Impose Magazine photo spread Cosmic Worm Goddess Performs with Spaceface in Chicago
Impose Magazine photo spread Globular Installation at the Womb Gallery
ArtPrize video by Brian Kelly Lunartics #onthemoon
Riot Fest Chicago with Lunartics #onthemoon
Collaboration with Physicists Intriguing Intersections
Sculpture Professor Turns Heads New Bites
"Icebreaker"
Across the hallway, the "Icebreaker" exhibit pairs nicely with "Art of the Lived Experiment," highlighting local artists and events while also appealing on multiple sensory levels. Natalie Wetzel's scupture and installation "Great Glob" combines sound from a New Fumes performance with sculpture. "Great Glob" is exciting, fun and a little overwhelming. - Elena Gormley, The Rapidian
"Natalie Wetzel joins the Sculpture and Functional Art department as a transdisciplinary creative dynamo who’s worn a number of different hats throughout her career – sculptor, performance artist, prop and stage designer, model, teacher, and music video director, to name a few." -Kendall College of Art and Design
"Collaborative art making along the open road. Natalie Wetzel (G'NAT Productions and sculptress extraordinaire) had already completed works for Damn the Witch Siren and Mr. Gnome when I joined her in Tennessee for her G'NAT Art Tour. She had constructed a fitting celestial 'Space Lion Cub' suit that she wore during Spaceface's hometown performance in Memphis. Also joining us for construction was Daniel Huffman (New Fumes). After the faces were spaced, our next stop was OKC to work with Brainwasher. While in OKC we were thrilled to be fortunate enough to stay with Wayne Coyne. After seeing the sculpture we were creating in his egg shower (deformed wearable masses of tape and cellophane), he asked us to meet with him at The Womb Gallery to discuss constructing an installation for their stage. Our project was dubbed "Globular" and was constructed using only cellophane, tape, balloons, and insulation materials. We spent the month in a makeshift form of a residency, working at the Womb and living at Wayne's. In the end, the stage was named "The Galactic Uterus" and loomed over Julianna Barwick, Fox Glove, and provided an environment for a Skating Polly video. It was a spectacular example of the wondrous outcomes when artists work together through different mediums. The next stop for us will be SXSW to work on the newest project: Glittoris." -Erika Mugglin, NYC Photographer, Impose Magazine
"My favorite artist this year is Natalie Wetzel who creates repulsive creatures of bone, hair, fur, metal-that seems weightless-and silicon. There are 'eyes' or other less appealing openings which one can peer into to see scenes of domestic tranquility. The viewer becomes the voyeur, doctor, psychiatrist. The uncomely creatures push our emotional buttons from repulsion to delight. Wetzel is a skilled artisan, melding dissimilar materials into a coherent whole, yet underlying each one is a consummate knowledge of structure. The sturdiness is tempered by inventiveness and humor." --Roy van der Aa The Ink, Las Cruces, New Mexico
"Natalie's sculpture is at once scary, repulsive, whimsical and funny. She creates forms that startle and stop people in their tracks." --Rachel Stevens NMSU Professor of Sculpture
"While her most recent pieces reference her own experiences, they also convey complex and universal themes, addressing gender, growth, the struggle for survival and unity, as well as the separateness of all living things." --Marilyn Delk The Daily Advocate, Greenville, Ohio
"An aviary delight! Wetzel Shimmies and Shines!" --Angela Cappetta, NYC photographer, on Silly Goose sculptural video short
"Some artists work in clay or watercolors. Natalie Wetzel has discovered the joy of Peeps... a holiday tree that stand 20 feet 3 inches...dubbed 'The World's Largest Peeps Tree'... stands out as part of the 'Christmas on the Potomac' display at Gaylord National Resort in suburban Washington." --Nick Chordas The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio
