Meet Natasha Loewy

Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Natasha Loewy. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Hi Natasha, thank you for joining us today and sharing your experiences and acquired wisdom with us. Burnout is a huge topic these days and so we’d love to kick things off by discussing your thoughts on overcoming or avoiding burnout

This is a work in progress and everyone does it differently. Being an artist is a full time job outside of having what usually constitutes as full time work. This can be overwhelming and can easily lead to burnout. I come from a family with a lot of musicians. Growing up, I witnessed a lot of daily routines as it relates to craft and interpretation. I think this has had a profound impact on my personality. The importance of daily routines/practice is integral to my studio process. I have projects that I work on slowly, which allows me to maintain a day to day relationship with my art. When I don’t have time for complete studio immersion (which is often), I can fall back on those projects. Bit by bit.

Thanks, so before we move on maybe you can share a bit more about yourself?

I am an artist based in Oakland, California. After teaching elementary, middle, and high school art for seven years, I made the decision to go back to school myself and pursue a Masters of Fine Arts Degree. I graduated from San Francisco State University in 2022.

Through sculpture, drawing, performance, and video, I create works that use tension, anticipation, and fragility to explore the relationships between humor and healing.

My artwork is often both very abstract and very personal. I strive to stay attuned to my own sorrows and joys, and to express them in art that is drawn from that place of attunement. Using abstraction, I leave room for viewers to bring their own sorrows and joys to the interpretation of the work. Abstraction is the middleground where we can hopefully meet.

As of now, my next exhibition will be in December of 2026. It will be a two-person show at Your Mood Projects along with my partner, Owen Takabayashi. Please follow me @natashaloewy on Instagram to stay tuned and check out my website at natashaloewy.com to learn more about my art practice.

In addition to my personal art practice, I am part of MUZ, a three person art and curatorial collective with Shirin Khalatbari and Beril Or. We are currently planning our next curatorial project inside of a closed container cargo trailer for the Spring of 2025. We are also excited to expand and offer mobile arts education workshops for youth, which will debut this March. Please follow @muzcollective on Instagram for updates.

There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?

1. trust yourself
2. trust yourself
3. trust yourself

Alright, so before we go we want to ask you to take a moment to reflect and share what you think you would do if you somehow knew you only had a decade of life left?

It can be very hard for me to be honest with myself and others about my ambitions. My skin has gotten much thicker but rejection is still hard so it’s sometimes easier to avoid it all together. One of my resolutions is to be very clear with myself about my goals and to start working more intentionally towards them.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.natashaloewy.com
• Instagram: @natashaloewy

Image Credits

Images 1 & 7-
Hadley Raysor