Nadia Yaron

Hudson-based sculptor Nadia Yaron creates works inspired by the natural world from wood, stone, and metal. Working in upstate New York in a studio surrounded by nature, Yaron’s sculptures are inspired from the substance of her everyday life— walks with her family, deep observations of nature, and the land on which she lives. The resulting works are bold, weighty shapes in variations of balance. Yaron is thinking about rendering the impermanence of nature into the most permanent materials we have. Constructed in calm, monochromatic color palettes of browns, creams, taupes, and grays, these are organic shapes boiled down to their most reductive yet evocative state. Clouds might teeter upon a mountain, which sits on rock— a visual haiku to provoke the senses. 

“A fallen leaf, a cloud, the first spring flower, the wind in the tree. It’s human nature to try to grasp onto things and hope and wish for them to live forever. I think in some way I am attempting to catch these moments and freeze them in time with more solid heavy materials like wood and stone: it’s an attempt to hold on to that which I can’t.”

Yaron began sculpting in 2017 after a career in wood furniture making. She was born in São Paulo, Brazil in 1978 and raised in New York, and studied Women’s Studies and Sociology at Hunter College, NYC. In 2018, her wood sculptures exhibited for the first time at an Architectural Digest Design show, and won best in show for fine art. 

“I love observing nature everyday. We are in a valley surrounded by mountains, and there is so much movement. It is something you have to surrender to. You have to give yourself to the stone and let it be.”