Artist Statement
My work is created with foraged soils and rocks, earth-based pigments, and lake pigments from plants. I create abstract and textural paintings built on memories of landscapes and our interconnectedness with the natural world.
My process often entails discovering what is underneath the surface and responding to the unpredictable forms that emerge. I repeatedly build up and erode the image to break down layers of color, mirroring the erosion of the environment. A constant exploration of the ephemerality of a material, landscape, and memory.
By recasting seemingly ordinary moments as profound, my work encourages a deeper intimacy with, and urgency towards, protecting our natural world.
Bio
Natalia Torres del Valle is an artist who works out of her studio in Hillsborough, NC and a 2023 Acadia National Park Artist-in-Residence. She is a Registered Expressive Arts Therapist through the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association and a teaching artist at the North Carolina Museum of Art. Natalia is a member of Pigments Revealed International, Spilt Milk Gallery, the National Art Education Association, the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association, and the Durham Art Guild. She has been featured in the Orange County Art Commission’s The Underline, VoyageRaleigh Magazine, and All She Makes magazine. Her work has been shown in museums and galleries across the U.S.
Publications
Mulling it over with Natalia Torres del Valle, Charlotte Russell Contemporary
Artist Natalia Torres del Valle’s Strikingly Sculptural Textured Paintings, The Underline
Issue 4, All She Makes Magazine
Daily Inspiration: Meet Natalia Torres del Valle, VoyageRaleigh
NCMA Recommends, North Carolina Museum of Art
Residencies
2023
Acadia National Park Artist-in-Residence
Exhibitions
2023
Object as Vessel, Greensboro Project Space-Greensboro, NC
Reclamation, Diamante Arts & Cultural Center-Raleigh, NC
We don’t Care: reclaiming our environment, Pop Box Gallery-Durham, NC
30×30: Art, Nature, and Science, Museum of Life+Science-Durham, NC
Invitational Latinx show/Invita Arte Contemporaneo Latinx, Frank Gallery-Chapel Hill, NC
Coalesce, Eno Arts Mill Gallery-Hillsborough, NC
Open Source, Sertoma Arts Center-Raleigh, NC
Open Source, Lump Gallery-Raleigh, NC
2022
They can be Both, Truist Gallery-Durham, NC
Ephemeral/Eternal, Visionary Art Collective-Virtual Exhibition
Construyendo Puentes/Building Bridges, Eno Arts Mill Gallery-Hillsborough, NC
Experiments in Form, Charlotte Russell Contemporary + Hartwell-Raleigh, NC
Taking Up Space, Pocket Gallery-Raleigh, NC
Spring to Life, 311 Gallery-Raleigh, NC
Fresh, Artspace-Raleigh, NC
Landform Meditations (solo), Halle Cultural Arts Center-Apex, NC
HOME?, Eno Arts Mill Gallery-Hillsborough, NC
An Evening of Local Art, Eno House-Hillsborough, NC
2021
Herencia, Diamante Arts & Cultural Center-Raleigh, NC
Durham Art Guild 67th Annual Juried Exhibition, SunTrust Gallery-Durham, NC
COSO (Contemporary South) 2021 Biennial, VAE-Raleigh, NC
The Art of Water V, James May Gallery-Virtual Exhibition
Rise, Play + Inspire Gallery-Virtual Exhibition
Reintegration (solo), Yonder-Hillsborough, NC
Beauty in the Mundane, Art Mums United-Virtual Exhibition
Members Extravaganza, Durham Art Guild-Virtual Exhibition
Catharsis, Play + Inspire Gallery-Virtual Exhibition
2020
FRESH, Artspace-Raleigh, NC
Paint it Orange: En Plein Air Paint-Out, Hillsborough Arts Council-Hillsborough, NC
Reintegration (solo)-Hillsborough, NC
If she could do it all, she would., Spilt Milk Gallery-Virtual Exhibition
2019
Community Art Show, The Carrack-Durham, NC
Latino Arts Exhibition, Halle Cultural Arts Center-Apex, NC
Herencia, The ArtsCenter-Raleigh, NC
Monster Drawing Rally, NC Museum of Art-Raleigh, NC
Final Community Art Show, The Carrack-Durham, NC
Art of the Natural World, Halle Cultural Arts Center-Apex, NC
Hispanic Heritage Month Art Exhibit, North Carolina Department of Administration-Raleigh, NC
2018
Community Art Show, The Carrack-Durham, NC
Latino Arts Exhibition, Halle Cultural Arts Center-Apex, NC
2017
Community Art Show, The Carrack-Durham, NC
Latino Arts Exhibition, Halle Cultural Arts Center-Apex, NC
Nasty Women, The Carrack-Durham, NC
2016
The Politics of Love, Halle Cultural Arts Center-Apex, NC