Chris Natrop: Cut Out Paper Never Looked So Awesome

Yet another creative individual from the backlogs of archives collected by our resident blogger Katherine(@fiametta137). I decided to slap my name next to the box that says (which CF staff member is going to review this artist) because Chris’s work seemed particulary..pardon the simplicity of my verbose…awesome. As a child I remember cutting out long streamers of basic shapes and thinking it was the coolest thing on the planet; I had no idea that a person could make a successful living out of it, let alone a fantastic installation and artpiece.

Before taking a look at more of his work lets take a look at Natrop’s background. Natrop recieved his BFA in Painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a merit scholarship. Since then he’s been featured at a multitude of galleries and has been invited as a guest lecturer to the School of Art and the University of Tennessee. Not to mention the Vincent Prince Art Museum. Natrop’s work features installations of fibrious paper cut outs that immediatly give the feeling of soft fabrics and spiderwebs.

Not of all his work consists of these paper cut out installations. His work encompasses a multitude of forms and the paper cutouts can easily become static, wall-mounted pieces of art.