Nathan Doty is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice combines collage, drawing, painting, and traditional printmaking processes. His work is rooted in layered image-making, using repeated symbols, fragmented imagery, and bold contrasts to build compositions that explore larger ideas through visual storytelling.

Repetition plays a major role throughout Doty’s practice. He often creates multiple originals through different forms of printmaking and reproduction, then layers and arranges them across surfaces in ways that resemble wheat-pasted posters or accumulated public imagery. Through this process, repeated symbols begin to shift in meaning, helping to reinforce the emotional and narrative direction of each piece.

Doty’s work is heavily driven by symbolism and contrast, balancing graphic immediacy with more personal themes connected to memory, identity, and lived experience. By layering images and allowing forms to reappear throughout a composition, his work examines how meaning changes over time through repetition, placement, and context.