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September 2025
Silk Wrangler: Artist Natale Adgnot explores the reconstructed autobiographies of materials and self
in her new solo exhibition at Established Gallery
The artist also participates in New York Textile Month and several group exhibitions throughout New York and Miami this fall
Stirrup Tread (Redneck), 2025, Denim snap shirt, silk, tulle, horsehair, cotton tape, thermoplastic, 18 x 10 x 9 in Photo: Paul Takeuchi
New York, NY – Franco-American artist Natale Adgnot presents Silk Wrangler, a new solo exhibition at Established Gallery, on view October 3 – November 2, 2025. The exhibition debuts on the heels of the artist’s inclusion in this year’s New York Textile Month at Fiber in Focus, and precedes upcoming group exhibitions at The CAMP Gallery, Gowanus Wharf, and Sweet Lorraine Gallery.
In Silk Wrangler, Adgnot continues her autobiographical explorations from her series Saddle Couturage, reconstructing materials and sculptural forms to create new relationships with identity and bridge cultural gaps. Adgnot, the daughter of a Texas horse trainer, highlights saddle forms in her latest works, using vintage garments like a kimono, Western snapshirts and denim together with horsehair and thermoplastic.
Rather than forming literal saddles, these works abstract saddle patterns, stitched, stuffed and painted into hybrid sculptures. These forms become a kind of personal map, tracing influences from Adgnot’s childhood in Texas, a decade working in Paris couture, and years spent living in Japan.
“When sewn together using intuition instead of instructions, these works inevitably leave holes. I fill them with horsehair and tulle or with little thermoplastic windows that reveal or obscure what’s underneath, using techniques and materials I picked up in France while working in couture. Everything is stitched together with gold thread, a visible mending method that was inspired in part by the Japanese tradition of kintsugi.” – Natale Adgnot
Adgnot’s thermoplastic hooves, horsehair stuffing, and wave-like patterns echo Japanese art traditions, while her use of bleached, dyed, and gold-leafed Western garments reimagine the equestrian culture of her upbringing. The resulting works oscillate between couture, craft, and cultural artifact, embodying the transformation and reconstruction of both materials and self.
In addition to Silk Wrangler, Adgnot exhibited work at Fiber in Focus in this year’s New York Textile Month. She will also participate in The CAMP Gallery’s 7th annual juried fiber show, Women Pulling at the Threads of Social Discourse: Don’t Be Absurd, opening on October 17th in Miami, as well as group exhibitions at Gowanus Wharf and Sweet Lorraine Gallery in October in New York.
Adngot will be giving an artist talk at Establish Gallery on Friday, October 24th, from 6:00 – 7:30 pm. There will be a closing reception on November 2nd from 2:00 – 4:00 pm.
Rear Jockey (Coral), 2025, Denim, silk, tulle, horsehair, thermoplastic, cotton tape, wood, 15 x 9.5 x 7.5 in Photo: Paul Takeuchi
About Natale Adgnot
Natale Adgnot is a sculptor and fiber artist who uses mixed media to explore cognitive bias and logical fallacy. Best known for wall sculptures made of painted thermoplastic adhered perpendicularly onto panels, she increasingly incorporates a variety of materials that are emblematic of her personal history into her work.
Adgnot earned a BFA in graphic design in Texas and studied fashion in Paris, eventually becoming a dual American/French citizen. Her experience making garments for haute couture runways led her to focus on sculpture. Later, while living in Japan, she began using thermoplastic (an artist-grade shrink plastic) to work three-dimensionally and has expanded her mediums to include fabrics, horsehair, and other materials that signify all of these places.
She has been featured in solo and two-person exhibitions in the U.S., Canada, and Japan. Group exhibitions include SPRING/BREAK, “Black & White” at BWAC juried by Jenée-Daria Strand of the Brooklyn Museum, and “I was not born alone” at Transmitter. Adgnot is also the owner and director of the seasonal art gallery N/A Project Space and a curator-member of Underdonk gallery. She lives and works in Brooklyn and New Paltz, New York.
Website: https://www.nataleadgnot.com
Instagram: @natale_adgnot
