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MITCHELL-INNES & NASH TO PRESENT ‘NATALIE FRANK: WHERE SHE STOPS’

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NEW YORK CITY — Mitchell-Innes & Nash announces an exhibition of new paintings by Natalie Frank, on view in the Chelsea gallery September 7–October 13. The exhibition will include several large-scale, multifigure contemporary history paintings, as well as portraits and domestic scenes.

Frank’s paintings explore relationships of power as they function within issues of identity, sexuality, religion and history. The personal, political and theatrical collide in her representations of the beautiful and the grotesque.

Frank’s paintings are peopled by figures of the in-between — characters ill-defined by gender and sexuality, reality and fantasy, presence and absence. Her life-sized figures assume a variety of roles, both allegorical and highly personal, which recur throughout the paintings.

New York-based painter Frank was born in Austin, Texas, in 1980. In 2003–04, she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for study at the National Academy of Fine Art in Oslo, Norway.

This will be Frank’s first solo exhibition at Mitchell-Innes & Nash. She has been included in various group exhibitions in the United States and abroad, including “Aggression of Beauty” at Arndt and Partner in Berlin this spring.

Mitchell-Innes & Nash Chelsea is at 534 West 26th Street. For information, 212-744-7400 or www.miandn.com.