Nathan Mabry (b. 1978, Durango, Colorado) is a Los Angeles based artist with an acclaimed body of work that includes primarily sculpture and work on paper. Mabry was formally trained as a ceramicist and his large-scale sculptures are cast from clay models and found objects. Though the scale of Mabry’s work is often monumental, the intimacy of the artist’s hand is always present. With iconoclastic fervor, Mabry melds antiquity with the contemporary, drawing inspiration from a variety of sources including archaeology, Dadaism, surrealism, and minimalism.
Mabry studied at UCLA under the satirist Paul McCarthy, a major influence on his work and from whom he has taken many of his visual clues, earning him recognition as a significant voice in contemporary sculpture. His work has been widely exhibited including in “The Sorcerer’s Burden: Contemporary Art and the Anthropological Turn” at The Contemporary Austin and the prominent exhibition “Thing: New Sculpture from Los Angeles” at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA. He had a solo exhibition at the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX.
Mabry’s work is held in permanent collections worldwide including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; the Dallas Museum of Art; the Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL; the Georgia Museum of Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO; the Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
