Nat Mayer Shapiro. Rigor and Joy. La rigueur et la joie

Nat Mayer Shapiro explores worlds of line and color, new places and spaces: a geometry of chance and impulse. With irony and an almost childlike lightness, he deploys an inquisitive, facetious spirit, a poetic sense of humor, and pokes fun at religion. Line plays with space; at times thin, light and aerial, sometimes abundant, always organized. With echoes of Klee, Kandinsky and Op Art, he asserts his distinct style and personality, combining abstract and figurative forms, dynamics and clarity of composition, color and depth, and modulation of the chromatic palette.
Born in New York in 1919, American artist Nat Mayer Shapiro worked in Chicago before settling in Paris in 1961. He returned to New York in 1985, where he died in 2005.