Natalie Krick

Natalie Krick was born in 1986 in Chicago, IL. She recieved her BFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2008. Her work has been shown at the Visual Arts Gallery in New York and at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Fort Collins, Colorado. Natalie Krick's work was recently featured in the Daniel Cooney Fine Art's Photographers Auction. She is currently living in Colorado where she shoots most of her photographs.

About her current work, Ambiguity and the Masquerade, Natalie said, "In my recent body of work, I examine the ways photography contributes to the construction of identity and gender. Women are encouraged to create a socially acceptable feminine appearance. I want to explore how this construction of sexual identity influences gender roles and sexual stereotypes. The women I photograph are dressed in excessive costumes to emphasize the artfice of femininity. I am interested in how transforming a woman into an exaggerated cliche of femininity results in her gender becoming ambiguous."

Her work has a blown out, flash bulb appearance, which I find to be truly beautiful. It has a fashion forward look, both in the lighting style and in the appearance and dress of her models. The colors are vivid against the bright whites, yet seemingly somewhat de saturated at the same time due to the bright flash. The high contrast of the photographs also help to give the photos a fashion photography feel. Although these photographs are posed, they are posed in a very natural way, capturing raw human emotion and natural actions.

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Posted By: Kim Steinhilber