Isabella Amram -  Natasha Shulte

Fragmented Wholeness

From 08-02-2025 Until 05-04-2025

Exhibition Dates: Opening 4-6 PM Saturday, February 22, 2025
Location: Marian Cramer Projects, Amsterdam

Marian Cramer Projects is thrilled to present Fragmented Wholeness, a dynamic exhibition featuring new paintings by Isabella Amram and Natasha Shulte. The exhibition invites viewers to explore themes of transformation, duality, and materiality through the distinct yet complementary voices of these two artists. Opening February 22, 2025, in Amsterdam, Fragmented Wholeness offers an evocative dialogue between Amram’s ritualistic abstraction and Shulte’s ethereal forms.

Isabella Amram’s painting practice is deeply rooted in ritual. For Amram, art-making is a meditative and performative process, involving layered gestures and intuitive mark-making that explore existential dualities such as presence and absence, fragmentation and wholeness. Her works draw heavily on esoteric and occult traditions, referencing symbols of death, rebirth, and the unconscious. Through her process-oriented approach, Amram channels transformation and uncertainty, resulting in paintings that are as introspective as they are universal.

In contrast, Natasha Shulte’s work emphasizes the sensory and organic, delving into natural cycles of growth, decay, and renewal. Her flowing textures, biomorphic forms, and luminous palettes evoke unseen forces that connect the ephemeral with the eternal. Shulte’s paintings exude a tactile vitality, embodying the rhythms of the natural world.

While their approaches differ, Amram and Shulte share a profound engagement with themes of impermanence and renewal. Amram’s layered and fragmented compositions evoke transformation through ritualistic gestures, while Shulte’s biomorphic forms create a sense of fluid wholeness. Together, their works engage viewers in a dialogue about the interplay between cohesion and fragmentation.

Amram’s conceptual depth resonates with Shulte’s tactile surfaces, offering complementary perspectives on the spiritual and the sensory. Amram’s works confront dualities like life and death or unity and disintegration, while Shulte’s paintings evoke the rhythms of nature, grounding these themes in a meditative sense of continuity.

The exhibition juxtaposes five paintings by each artist, creating a visual and conceptual progression:

Amram’s abstract, gestural marks explore the mysteries of transformation, while Shulte’s flowing, biomorphic textures anchor viewers in organic vitality. By displaying the works side by side highlights their shared exploration of life’s cycles and the balance between the metaphysical and the sensory.

Isabella Amram’s painting practice is process-oriented and rooted in ritual. She uses ritual as a way of inducing and processing states of transformation and uncertainty, through material and bodily gestures of disintegration, embodiment, and enduring stillness. In this way, the work is process-oriented and of the body. Drawing from esoteric traditions and existential themes, her works reflect on the interplay between presence and absence, as well as the cycles of life and death.

Natasha Shulte creates tactile, biomorphic paintings that explore cycles of growth, decay, and renewal. Her works evoke unseen forces and emphasize the interconnectedness of natural processes.

Fragmented Wholeness opens on Saturday, February 22, 2025, at Marian Cramer Projects in Amsterdam and will run through April 25, 2025.

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