Page 168 - Famous

LYNNE TAETZSCH

Lives and works in Ithaca, NY, USA
www.ar tbylt.com

What I find intriguing in the acrylic paintings of Lynne Taetzsch, currently Taetzsch has spoken about her work almost like a piece of music, as if she
at the Artspace at the Clinton House Gallery, is that every work on display were constructing an orchestral movement. She says, “I struggle with the
has some red in it. Some paintings are even dominated by this color, calling canvas, building it up and breaking it down. Space is there to be enclosed
us to stop and look at them. It is as if energy is emanating from the works, and disclosed; defined and defiled by line; shaped and misshaped by form;
bouncing off the walls in this room of modest size that can accommodate made subtle, empty or blatant through color. Form. Line. Color. Some
perhaps only 10 to 20 works. Standing in the middle I could feel an energy days we dance together, some days we engage in a bloody fistfight.”
to this space created by the art, and myself attracted to examine each work What is of great interest to me is that, as a viewer, I do not really see this
carefully to find the sources of this power. But the color red is only one part struggle she speaks of so eloquently. I see an artist who has a very masterful
of the story. Taetzsch is a painter very much in the tradition of the best of control over her works, creating a coherent and forceful expression on
20th century abstraction. She understands how to organize a canvas, how canvas. But then perhaps this is the role of the artist, to create order and
to arrange elements with extraordinary control over their placement. One expression out of a chaotic mixture of color and shape. This is surely the
of the most interesting aspects of this show is that I found both works that role of the abstract painter, and a role that Taetzsch takes on and handles
have a clear visible sense of structure around some particular object while superbly.
others have a looser balance of shapes and brush strokes. Both approaches
work equally well. Color Contrast by Stan Bowman, Professor Emeritus, Cornell University Art
Department (Reprinted from the Ithaca Times, December 12, 2001, p. 14)

 FEATHERED NEST THREE, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 44X44 IN. / 112X112 CM.
BLUE CITY, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 36X36 IN. / 91X91 CM. 
PERENNIAL, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 48X48 IN. /122X122 CM. 

168
FAMOUS
CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS