My art evokes the energy and motion of the world. I am compelled by the tension between the conscious deliberation of human action and the perpetual non-conscious activity of the atmosphere that surrounds us. The volatile interaction of these two antipodes – the built environment and the natural – produces a collision of contrasting visual stimuli that I reflect upon in my work.
I am pierced and transported by the margins that construct the bailiwick of my subjective perception and ocular reality. The disparate, yet balanced edges that frame my lens and scaffold my visual manifesto produce a harmonious resonance between otherwise unlikely bedfellows – urban and rural; landscape and man; organic and inorganic; harmony and tumult; patterns and abstraction. The touchstone of my creative philosophy is the meditative inquiry into this beautiful disquiet that engulfs each of us.
Nate Herth was born in San Francisco, CA, and has been a Seattle resident since 2001. He was raised in the manifold Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, and moved to the bucolic wheat fields of Walla Walla, WA to attend Whitman College. As a student, he studied printmaking, drawing and painting and worked under Keiko Hara and Anna Hepler. Currently a master teaching artist, Nate provides immersive, multidisciplinary arts education for students K-12. The diverse nature of his upbringing, education and career expressively parallels the balanced cacophony of his work.
2018 | Coral Space, part of Equinox Studio, Seattle, WA |
2018 | Currents, The Promenade Gallery, Seattle, WA |
2010 | Transparency Installation, Queen Hotel Studio, Seattle, WA |
2009 | Transparent Storefront Works, Nancy Gallery, Seattle, WA |
2009 | Condition Paintings, University of WA Tacoma, Iron Gallery, Tacoma, WA |
2009 | Mixed Work, Icon Coffee Gallery, Fremont Art Walk, Seattle, WA |
2009 | Watercolor Basement, Icon Coffee Gallery, Fremont Art Walk, Seattle, WA |
2016 | Super Cooper 10, City Hall Galleries, Seattle, WA |
2014 | Pianos in the Parks, Seattle, WA |
2014 | Who Are U, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA |
2013 | Gage Academy, Rosen Gallery, Teaching Artists, Seattle, WA |
2011 | Open Daybook Exhibition, LACE Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, LA, CA |
2010 | Mystic Sons of Morris Graves, Rock/Dement Gallery, Seattle, WA |
2010 | Cafe Review, Café Cugini, Seattle, WA |
2009 | Surreal, Capitol Hill Watercolor Society, Café Racer, Seattle, WA |
2009 | Cops and Calder, Seattle Art Museum ReMix, Seattle, WA |
2008 | We Regret to Inform You, Joe Bar Gallery, Seattle, WA |
2008 | Youth Instructors Show, Steele Gallery, Gage Academy, Seattle, WA |
2008 | Boats, Buildings and Bridges, University House, Seattle, WA |
2006 | Disaster, Capitol Hill Watercolor Society, Gallery 4Culture, Seattle, WA |
2006 | Anthem, Composers Forum collaboration with filmmaker Randy Walker for composer Christopher DeLaurenti, Consolidated Works, Seattle, WA |
2005 | define: BOOK, Art Books Press, Seattle, WA |
2005 | Unbroken, Capitol Hill Watercolor Society, Capitol Hill Art Center, Seattle, WA |
2004 | Small Works Seasonal Show, Vain Upper Gallery, Seattle, WA |
2004 | Zine Show, Art Books Press, Seattle, WA |
2004 | Capital Hill Watercolor Society, Forgotten Works Gallery, Seattle, WA |
2004 | Capital Hill Watercolor Society, Secluded Alley Works, Seattle, WA |
2004 | Matinee Show, Marie Antoinette Gallery, Seattle, WA |
2016-2017 | Teaching Artist, Seattle's Office of Arts and Culture, Public Art Grant, Seattle, WA |
2017 | Youth Theater Co-Director, Defiance, Seattle Rep, DON Grant, Seattle, WA |
2017 | Using Arts as a Catalyst for Social Change: Columbia City Youth Theater Group, Seattle, WA |
2016 | Teaching Artist Guild: Issue 06: Intersections of Teaching Artistry and Social Justice, Seattle, WA |
2012-2015 | Arts Corps’ Creative School Initiative, Teaching Artist, Seattle, WA |
2014-2015 | City of Seattle Creative Advantage Teaching Artist, Seattle, WA |
2010-2015 | Seattle Art Museum, Teaching Artist and Facilitator, Seattle, WAst |
2010-2012 | CTE Visual Communications Instructor, SIG FTE, Stewart Middle School, Tacoma, WA |
2008-2010 | Seattle Art Museum, Museum Educator for Youth, Family and Community, Seattle, WA |
2007-2008 | Tacoma School of the Arts, Adjunct Artist, Tacoma, WA |
2007-2014 | The Bush School, Visiting Part-time Teacher, Seattle, WA |
2004-2014 | Gage Academy of Art , Youth Program Instructor, Seattle, WA test |
2005-2014 | Seattle Art Museum, Teaching Artist, Seattle, WA |
2017 | Peacemaking and Healing for Social Emotional Learning, Seattle, WA |
2015 | Trauma Stewardship with Laura van Dernoot Lipsky, Seattle, WA |
2013 | Youth Program Quality Assessment, (YPQA), Art Corps, Seattle, WA |
2013 | Arts and Social Justice Institute, Arts Corps, Seattle, WA |
2012 | White Privilege Conference, Seattle, WA |
2011 | CTE Probationary Certification Visual Communications, Tacoma, WA |
2010 | Community of Thinkers, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA |
2008 | People's Institute, Undoing Racism, Seattle, WA |
2007 | Edge Program Participant, Artist Trust, Seattle, WA |
1998 | Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Arts, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA |
1998 | Intern artist-assistant to Jim Dine and Pace Editions, Walla Walla, WA |
1997 | Intern with Walla Walla Foundry, Walla Walla, WA |
1997 | Artist Assistant to Keiko Hara, Walla Walla, WAtest |
1994 | Urban High School, San Francisco, CA |
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