Email me @ nathanielhendrickson (at) gmail (point) com
Artist Statement
As an artist and curator, collaboration is extremely important to me. I believe collaboration is the backbone of what makes us human. My work is a test of this belief. It is a test to my body, heart, and mind to be curious and to keep my eyes and ears open to the possibilities of flourishing collaboration. Listening to stories is resilient technique for maintaining closeness to others in an increasingly divided and information saturated milieu. Through painting, curation, song, writing, movement and multi-media installation, my work weaves, by way of poetic analogy, the skein of the many stories that I encounter. Like a patchwork quilt, these stories are deeply connected with and to one another. Understanding their connection with our own path is one way to make sure they are treated as poetic matter and not simply scraps of material. Similarly, as a curator, I like to work with artists that I feel are important to me, and inspire me to continue. Like a constellation of stars, the communities that we surround ourselves with initiate, sustain and guide us through change in dark times.
About Me
Nathaniel Hendrickson works as an interdisciplinary artist, painter, curator, documentary filmmaker and freelance producer based in Casey County, KY. Their work explores the edge of performance and visual art and has worked on collaborative projects internationally with the Open Program of the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski (Italy/Turkey/Lebanon/USA); Hyunji Park (Korea/Finland); Gianluigi Biagini (Finland/Italy); Pietro Varrasso (Belgium); They most recently staged an intervention with Pietro Varrasso at the University of Liege School of Architecture’s: Borderscapes 2023 on the unique geopolitical region of Mt. St. Pierre, and presented their work at the Multispecies Ethnography and Artistic Methodology conference at the University of Liege School of Anthropology. Currently, their focus lies on exploring themes related to the ecological crisis, human perception, and the metamorphic sublime.
Aside from their artistic pursuits, Hendrickson is committed to education. They have served as Drawing and Painting faculty at the Kentucky Governor's School for the Arts since 2022 and have co-facilitated intensive summer workshops in collaboration with Projet Daena and the Royal Conservatory of Liege in Belgium since 2019. In the academic year of 2022-2023, they served as the Art & Design Artist-in-Residence at Campbellsville University.
Hendrickson holds an MFA from Florida State University in Studio Art and currently serves as Visiting Professor of Studio art at Kentucky College of Art & Design in Louisville, Kentucky.
Kentucky College of Art + Design