Tuesday, January 28, 2020
Pictured is Natalie Dotzauer’s “Hide Out” 2019.
Artist Natalie Dotzauer will exhibit her art entitled “What We Take” in the North Idaho College Corner Gallery Nov. 18 to Jan. 31.
“I feel as though memories have some kind of personhood with eternal feelings, traces of lessons, survival instincts, reminders, sweet, naïve, forever caught in a pageant of my deepest regrets or fondest regards,” writes Dotzauer in her artist statement. “But where can I find a memory? Where do they exist? When do they exist? I’m struck by the impermanent nature of remembering. At times a name or an old photo can trigger a thought. A smell, a walk through an old neighborhood can bring back such vivid memories; it’s as if we pass our younger selves in the same space. I exist both as the thought and the person remembering.”
For the NIC exhibit, Dotzauer has built an actual roof inside the gallery.
“This installation is generated to trigger the senses and thoughts of nostalgia, as the act of play and sugar sensations are pulled together in unusual combinations. I am attempting to unfurl the physical nature of each material, the visceral act of understanding and conjuring the delightful of play,” she writes.
The Corner Gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Friday. Admission to the gallery is free.
Information: (208) 769-3202