Makes books and music and draws things

Nate Utesch is an artist
& independent publisher
living in Northeast Indiana.

Accolades

Press & Honors: How Magazine, Print Magazine, For Print Only, Grain Edit, Humanize Magazine, The CSS Awards, The Greater Fort Wayne 40 Under 40, Coudal Partners, Midwest Action, Design Work Life, The Fox is Black
Features: Studio Sweet Studio, The Fox is Black (interview), The Artfuls, Poolga, Fifty & Fifty, The Fox is Black (contribution), Silver Screen Society, Momentus, Beast Every Week, Thirty Three and a Third, Old & New Project, Help Ink, The Occupy Poster Project

Occasional Human Interaction

2012 — Alternate Endings /
Bottleneck Gallery, Brooklyn
2012 — Bordo Bello /
Redline Gallery, Denver
2012 — WMC Fest (Speaker) / Reinberger Auditorium, Cleveland
Listen to my talk ramblings
2012 — BikeIt! /
Lotus Gallery, Fort Wayne
2011 — 33.3.2 /
Shera’s, Elkader
2011 — Bordo Bello /
Redline Gallery, Denver
2011 — Star Wars vs. Dinosauars /
Conspirary, Fort Wayne
2011 — “What If…” Show /
River North Park, Chicago

 

2011 — WMC Fest /
Wall Eye Gallery, Cleveland
2011 — “The All Seeing Eye Show” / Conspirary, Fort Wayne
2011 — AVA Awards / Artlink,
Fort Wayne
2010 — Watercooler Exhibition / Pinch/Zoom, Seattle
2009 — “Hear No Noise” / Artlink,
Fort Wayne
2008 (7) — Various / SOMA Collective
2007 (2) — Various / SOMA Collective
2006 — “Seven Young Contemporaries” / Artlink, Fort Wayne
2006 — “Tolstoy Eats its Young” /
Grind, Fort Wayne

Hopelessly devoted (view in detail)

design & mktg boutique

art/fiction journal

electronic/instr quartet

art director

founder, curation/design

fender rhodes, programming

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Longform (written for WMC Fest, Cleveland, 2012)

In 2004, I visited Germany and learned I’ve been pronouncing my last name wrong my whole life. The same year I started a band. In 2010, I learned my great-grandfather’s surname was actually “Bennett.” The same year I spent every dime I had to start self-publishing a series of art journals. Currently, I am utterly confused about my heritage—yet a happily hard-working, professional side-project-accumulating art director at One Lucky Guitar, Inc. Any conscious hours left in my day are spent performing in Metavari, curating/publishing that art journal from 2010 and illustrating commissions in Fort Wayne, Indiana’s self-proclaimed “Bricktown.” I’d love to talk to you about David Lynch, 80′s music production and freestyle swimming efficiencies. And then some more David Lynch.