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Hester’s pop-punk world borders on the surreal. Alternating between slapstick capers and trancelike dreamscapes, his drawings, animations and projections explore the charming if disquieting incongruities of the places, communities and bodies to which we all yearn to belong.

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Not only does Nathaniel possess the skill to complete the execution of such a complicated process, but also the strength of vision necessary to see it through without losing focus. The varying transparency in the ink allows the viewer to trace back and forth from foreground to background creating a complex sense of space.

Eli J. VandenBerg

The Print Center

Hester has a wealth of experiences, a great deal to say artistically and the means to communicate his ideas.

Adam Cave

Adam Cave Fine Art

Nate Hester is able to capture complex ideas often layered in his elegant prints. This is an achievement attained only by master printmakers. And, he is one.

Larry Wheeler

Former Director of the North Carolina Museum of Art

Nate is a virtuoso with a pen, brush, stylus, or quill. His masterly strokes reveal his credentials at studying traditional form yet his work has a thoroughly contemporary, often playful nature to it.

James Keul

Artist

Nate holds a unique skill-set that allows him to flow seamlessly between contemporary and traditional, craftsmanship and expression, oftentimes within a single piece.

Joshua Cross

Professor of Art, Pfeiffer University

Nate Hester’s work is nuanced, delicate and powerful. He creates with an immediacy and exuberance that is evident in his work. That excitement is evident from his wood blocks to his collage; his is a work that provokes thoughtful consideration of a well crafted aesthetic.

Joel Christian Gill

Associate Professor, Chair of the Master’s of Fine Arts in Visual Narrative, Boston University

I am so impressed with Nate’s breadth of artistic styles. They run the gamut of fine, precise florals that look like silverpoints, to bold figures and landscapes that verge on abstract expressionism. He is very well respected in the artist community.

Maureen Dunlap