Natalia Koren Kropf is a classically trained interdisciplinary award-winning contemporary artist who combines art and science as explores current topics of change and the eternal themes of light and movement. 

 

ARTISTIC LIFE

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Upon a solid European academic foundation studies in fine art and art hisotry and having mastered classical techniques in oil painting, life drawing and composition, Natalia continued to expand her conscious and artistic horizons. She was accepted to the Parsons School of Design as an honor student to explore printmaking, and upon graduation she was offered a position as a drawing teacher, while independently continuing her education at the School of Visual Arts, and the Art Student League, experimenting with advanced printmaking techniques. Working with master printers John Ross, William Benken, Elaine Breuger, Bruce Waldman to name a few, Natalia absorbed the knowledge and hands-on experience in intaglio, aquatint, viscosity printing, silkscreen, lithography, woodblock, linocut, digital imaging, and artist’s books.

 

Later on, her love for form, gesture, and curvature was manifested in three-dimensional works. Studying ceramics with Yatsumitsu Morito she transitioned to bronze sculpture with technical support and production at the Art Students League of New York and The Modern Art Foundry.

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The scope of Natalia’s artistic inspirations takes many forms, from her lyrical landscapes and figurative brush and ink drawings, and gestural paintings in oil, acrylic, egg-tempera, to her non-objective meticulous etchings and monoprints, and her biomorphic sculptures in terra-cotta, stoneware, porcelain, bronze, mixed media. Nature, science, and music play an intrinsic part. Movement and light remain recurring themes in her artworks, which she refers to as visual poems. 

 

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SHARING WITH  COMMUNITY 

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During her tenure at Parsons School of Design, Natalia wanted to share her rich experience and skills with others more indepth, than academic curriculum offers. She opened her private studio, which focused not only on how to draw and paint, but how to express oneself, finding one’s unique voice. Art History was taught there along with studio art, lectures and trips to museums were arranged, the art of oral presentation and artists statements were a must. The KorenKropf Studio run for 15 consequitive years and was paused due to Pandemic in 2020.

Natalia was always drawn to the invisible world. Once she undertook a deep spiritual journey, which manifested in shifting focus to ecology and humanity in her artworks, earning her two diplomas, from the Kundalini Research Institute (KRI) and from the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT). Natalia has offered additional classes at her Private Art Studio to suit the personal goals of her students, combining Yogic principles with self-expression in a holistic form of Art therapy. 

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Natalia has 30 years of continuous exhibition history, as seen in her resume.

In 2010 Natalia was accepted into the National Association of Women Artists (NAWA), the oldest American Art organization founded in 1889, by women artists to promote and educate women artists, www.thenawa.org. In 2018 Natalia was elected as President. During the tumultuous years of the Pandemic, she re-directed all operations online and established new virtual routines as early as May 2020: the remote office protocols, monthly exhibitions, including the historical first 131st Annual Members’ online Exhibition, and educational programs. Due to the real estate crisis in Manhattan, NAWA headquarters had to relocate. With the assistance of an honorary member and the Board, Natalia was instrumental in negotiating a new lease at the National Arts Club,  15 Gramercy Park South. After her presidential term, Natalia remains active on the Executive Board of Directors.

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LOVE EXPRESSED IN ART

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Natalia’s love for Nature is in her studies of TREES and ROOTS and CUTS Series.

Her love to Music resonates in MUSICAL MOVEMENTS Series. 

Her love for architecture and Plein Air inspired a series of lyrical cityscapes, largely but not exclusively of NEW YORK CITY and FOREST HILLS.

Natalia’s love for people resulted in painterly and sculptural PORTRAITS.

Her love for discovery is explored in the quest of the unknown which is reflected in a body of abstract works STREAMLINES and CURVATURES and SPEED OF THOUGHT.

Natalia’s love for stories can be observed in the series MYTHOS and ANGELS.