Artist Profile | Nate Schnell

Schnell's works blend a carefully lined illustrative style with landscapes that border on impressionistic - littered as they are with fuzzy trees and lush tonal color fields. The effect gives all of his works a sense of collage, mixing styles that manage to simultaneously evoke the quaint nostalgia of weathered advertisements and sharp edges of specimen drawings. That juxtaposition seems an invitation to imagery, an inticement to imagine the alien terrain just out of focus, and perhaps to imagine yourself part of the odd and unfamiliar place - perhaps (to paraphrase the artist) to imagine taking off. "Sometimes, I have an idea or sometimes I just start with a block of color," Schnell says. "There's no regular patterning. I like to start from non-living objects, and then give them life."

- Excerpt by Carla Kocurek - Rare Magazine - June 2008




Nate Schnell
Joe's Fro Blows Above His Nose
36x24
Acrylic, Silk Screen on Wood Panel

$ 800



Nate Schnell
And Then He Knew He Was
Part of it Too

36x24
Acrylic, Silk Screen on Wood Panel

$ 800



Nate Schnell
The Children Were Relentless
23x19
Acrylic, Silk Screen
on Wood Panel





Nate Schnell
Larry Parts The Trees High Above The Motorists Knees
24x20
Acrylic, Silk Screen
on Wood Panel

$ 700


Nate Schnell
The Book The Crook At The Nook
20x24
Acrylic, Silk Screen
on Wood Panel


Nate Schnell
Orange Jumper and the Alpha Bird
24x20"
Acrylic, Silk Screen
on Wood Panel

$ 700





Nate Schnell
It was Harder Than it Looked
29.5x12.5
Acrylic, Ink, Pencil mounted on Screen Print Wood Panel

$ 700


Nate Schnell
He Was the Best At It
20x24
Acrylic, Silk Screen
on Wood Panel

$ 700



Nate Schnell
Speak Up, Nancy
12x12
Acrylic, Ink, Pencil on Wood Panel




Nate Schnell
This Is A True Story
30x20
Acrylic, Found Objects on Wood Panel



Nate Schnell
One Day Soon
20x24
Acrylic, Silk Screen
on Wood Panel





Nate Schnell
He was Getting too Old for this Game
44x24
Acrylic, Silk Screen
on Wood Panel


Nate Schnell
Rosita Walks the Line
34x20.5
Acrylic, Ink, Pencil mounted on Screen Print Wood Panel



Nate Schnell
Half Ton of Fun
24x20
Acrylic, Ink, Pencil mounted on Screen Print Wood Panel




Nate Schnell
That's a Lot of Work for Such a
Little Word

12x12
Acrylic, Ink, Photo on Wood Panel



Nate Schnell
A Possible Non-Delicious
Encounter

24x24
Acrylic, Silk Screen
on Wood Panel



Nate Schnell
Birdman Thinks
38x31
Acrylic, Silk Screen on Wood Panel




Nate Schnell
Birdman Flies
16x31
Acrylic, Silk Screen
on Wood Panel




Nate Schnell
Hungry, Fella?
12x12
Acrylic, Ink, Pencil on Wood Panel



Nate Schnell
One Planted and the Other Out the Door
48x24
Acrylic, Ink on Wood Panel




Nate Schnell
Phant
12x12
Acrylic, Ink on Wood Panel




Nate Schnell
...Make Friends with Birds
12x12
Acrylic, Ink on Wood Panel




Nate Schnell
Ketchup Loves Hotdog
12x12
Acrylic, Ink, Photo on Wood Panel