Gallery 1: Event Horizon, Nataliya Hines

Nataliya Hines draws from art history, utilizing the visual language of academic portraiture and religious iconography. Her work explores human inventiveness, symbols, and the identities we attribute to our creations. She merges traditional techniques with modern tools, using both slow-drying acrylics and digital illustration.

Inspired by historical themes and the rise of AI, Nataliya was deeply impacted by Mo Gawdat's Scary Smart. She processes this through her paintings, privately depicting the face of emerging intelligence by drawing parallels with preternatural deities. As we approach a technological precipice, she seeks to preserve true human connection, transcending algorithms to cherish authentic bonds.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Nataliya Hines is a painter, printmaker, and mixed-media artist based in the New York Metro area. She completed interdisciplinary studies in traditional print processes at the School of Art and Design at Purchase College and art history at the Institut d’Études Supérieure des Arts in Paris.

Since 2019, Hines has been exploring the subject of symbolic femininity in a series of representational acrylic paintings, drawing from the motivic traditions of academic portrait painting and religious iconography, while exploring some of the narrative threads that run through Slavic and Scandinavian folklore.

Nataliya lives in western Connecticut where she continues to work primarily as a painter and collage artist in her home studio. Outside of her primary practice, Hines works as a freelance artist in traditional and digital media, as a portrait painter as well as album cover and logo design.