AdgnotNatale

Natale Adgnot is a Franco-American artist who uses abstract drawing and sculpture to explore cognitive bias and logical fallacy. Best known for wall sculptures made of painted thermoplastic, adhered perpendicularly onto birch panels, she challenges the viewer to consider her work from multiple perspectives

Adgnot earned a BFA in graphic design in Texas and studied fashion in France. Her experience making garments for haute couture runways led her to focus on sculpture. While living in Tokyo, she began using thermoplastic to work three-dimensionally.

She has been featured in solo and two-person exhibitions at Established Gallery in New York, Myta Sayo Gallery in Toronto, and Midori-so in Tokyo. Recent group exhibitions include “Black & White” at BWAC – a show juried by Jenée-Daria Strand of the Brooklyn Museum – where she won an award and “Sound & Sight: A Duet” curated by nAscent Art and The Brooklyn Conservatory of Music. She lives and works in Brooklyn and New Paltz, New York.

Artist Statement

I use abstract drawing and sculpture to explore human perception and the social consequences of cognitive bias and its close cousin, logical fallacy. My sculptures are made of painted and hand-cut thermoplastic (an artist-grade “shrinky-dink”) mounted on birch panels. Often beginning with a black and white line drawing from my ongoing sketchbook series, I reinterpret sketches as sculptures by raising the lines up from the surface. By mounting the sculptural details perpendicular to the panel, I give the resulting object a multitude of appearances depending on the observer’s viewpoint. When viewed frontally, the sculptures often appear as little more than lines on a page. They reveal their dimensionality when viewed from other angles, challenging the notion that the truth can be fully known from a fixed perspective.