Press release:

ART EXHIBIT – NORMANDY PARK CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS

Nathan DiPietro - "Green on Grey Exhibit"

Open House Reception: Thursday, August 8th at 7:00pm

We are most fortunate to have Nathan DiPietro exhibiting at Normandy Park City Hall, as his unique egg tempera paintings exemplify aspects of
development which concern every community. This exhibition explores a newNorthwest where the lush overgrowth of the native landscape has been
replaced with neatly platted developments, leveled fields, and manmade greenbelts. In their regional focus and tight linear detail, DiPietro’s works are reminiscent of early 20th-century American painters such as Grant
Wood, but in contrast to those warmly nostalgic scenes from everyday life,
DiPietro’s images have the air of stage sets - uninhabited and artificial.

The exhibit will be on display in the Normandy Park City Council Chambers,801 SW 174th St, Normandy Park, through September 2013. The exhibit may also be viewed during city business hours, Monday-Thursday.

The City of Normandy Park Arts Commission invites you to join us at the
artists’ reception and celebration on Thursday, August 8th from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. for refreshments, conversations with the artist and a truly
enjoyable evening.

Please RSVP your attendance for the open house so we can plan the
refreshments: 206-248-8248 or artscomm@ci.normandy-park.wa.us

or 206-285-1730 or bob@LakesideAdvisors.com

Nathan received his B.F.A. from Central Washington University in Ellensburg,in 2003. He has had solo exhibitions at Woodside/Braseth Gallery and Punch Gallery, Seattle, as well as at galleries in Ellensburg. I have had the pleasure of showing his works twice at the Lakeside Advisors gallery.

Nathan's work is currently included in the exhibition Creating the New
Northwest – Selections from the Herb and Lucy Pruzan Collection at the
Tacoma Art Museum, and he has participated in group shows at The Evergreen State College, Olympia; Western Oregon University, Monmouth; and Eastern Washington University, Cheney; as well as in galleries in Washington, Los Angeles, New York, North Carolina, and Texas.

Nathan recently was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, and received grants from 4Culture in 2010 and 2011. His work has been reviewed in Art in America, The Stranger, The Seattle Times, and on artsjournal.com, and can be found in the collections of Swedish Hospital and University of Washington Medical Center.

He is represented by Woodside/Braseth Gallery, Seattle.