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TAMARA TARASIEWICz

Lives and works in Chicago, USA

SEARCH THE ARTIST ONLINE www.tamaratarasiewicz.com

The current work encompasses both the abstract paintings of the spontaneous, free use of color. In the viewer’s euphoric reaction, the
series windows to Nature and the imagistic canvases of Spirituality. The sound of color, is the inner world made visible. In all of the work, the
former group suggests the realm of the intellect, a garden that balances process is intuitive, but under strict conscious control. Although no
growth, order, and geometry. In Spirituality, the rows of round forms sketches are used, the artist has a vision in mind of the process of the
have morphed into the outlines of figures in an active organic space. paintings from beginning to end.
In Spirituality, the figures retain a connection to life, while their A work begins with the artist painting random patches of color on the
forms have become less substantial. Although they may appear as canvas with acrylic and metallic pigment, and ceramic paste. Next, the
just outlines, they are part of the vibrating energy around them. The canvas is placed on the floor and acrylic and oil paint are squeezed
artist seeks to depict both the visible material world and also invisible from tubes, and liquid acrylic is poured, creating the outlines of people,
dimensions, such as thoughts, dreams, emotions, imaginations. In animals, plants, and other imagined forms. Brushes and wooden sticks
these paintings, there is an evocation of spiritual feelings and a sense are used, along with scratching and textures.
of our passage through this existence, the entrance into a non-material Running through the artist’s work is her concern with the visual and
world, and the continuity after life. emotional poetry of painting. Her focus is on the process of continual
In both groups of paintings is the artist’s use of simple forms and invention. The message is the freedom to imagine and express. It is the
lines that are both strong and mysterious, translating onto canvas her artist’s intention for the viewers looking at her art to experience their
thoughts and observations on the life that surrounds her. There is a own vision, complex feelings, and positive attitude toward life.
John Mendelsohn

 FIsHING, 2007 ACRYLIC AND OIL ON CANvAS 147x172 CM. / 58x68 IN.  rIDers, 2007 ACRYLIC AND OIL ON CANvAS 147x172 CM. / 58x68 IN.

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