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Artist Statement:
When I paint I am standing in
the desert alone, facing the
vast horizon, the pale
gradations of sand,
sand-colored rock,
sand-colored plants,
sand-colored sky. There is
nowhere to look for relief.
I work on a canvas in layers
over days or weeks. The
painting's past affects its
present, leaving traces and
influences that subtly or
dramatically guide what
happens next. Acrylic is the
perfect medium for me because
it dries fast. I work quickly
while the paint is wet,
covering the whole canvas. The
next day I rework it.
When I go to the blank canvas
it is upright on an easel.
Loud music plays in the
background. I dig deep for the
anger, the melancholy, the
inexplicable energy and
exhaustion of daily life, to
express it in a large gesture.
Audacious color. Reckless
line.
I struggle with the canvas,
building it up and breaking it
down. Very often a hideous
accident occurs: the paint
does not flow evenly from the
tube; colors clash in careless
abandon; irregular drips and
splotches dot the surface. My
eye is offended by what it
sees.
My passion is to tease this
ugliness, this unlikely blend
of colors and ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
Solo Exhibitions:
2007 Abstract Refractions,
Upstairs Gallery, Ithaca, NY
2006 Black & White & Color,
Tompkins County Airport,
Ithaca, NY
2004 Featured Artist, Arts
Crawl, The Gallery at
Hawthorne Plaza, Overland
Park, KS
2004 Fundamental Energy,
Shangri-La Gallery, Ithaca, NY
2002 Color on Color, Borders
Books Cafe Gallery, Ithaca, NY
2001 ...
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Artist Galleries:
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Artist Reviews:
Excerpts from COLOR CONTRAST
by Stan Bowman, Professor
Emeritus of Cornell University
Art Department
Review reprinted from The
Ithaca Times, 12/12/01, p. 14
Red is the color of fire, hot,
moving, sometimes dangerous.
It is also the color of blood,
that vital substance necessary
for all human life. ...
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Collections:
Let's Gel, Inc., Austin, TX
Educational Testing Service,
Princeton, NJ
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute,
Boston, MA
Real Capital Analytics, New
York, NY
Stratum Developments, Inc.,
Alberta, Canada
Advanced Liquid Logic, Cary,
NC
Matrix Public Health Cons.,
Inc., New Haven, CT
DG Groep, The Netherlands
T-System, Inc., Dallas, TX
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Commissions:
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Lynne Taetzsch Biography:
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Lynne Taetzsch was born in East Orange, New Jersey and grew up in Irvington and Newark, New Jersey. She was interested in art from the time she was a child, spending her allowance on arts and crafts supplies, painting the school windows for the holidays, and winning a class drawing contest in eighth grade. As a teenager she took oil-painting lessons from a local artist and was president of her high-school art club.
At Rutgers University, the University of Southern California, and the University of California, Lynne took art classes in painting, print-making, drawing and pottery. But the biggest influence on her art was the two years she spent at Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City where she had classes in calligraphy, architectonics, one and two dimensional design, life drawing, and painting. This is when her work gradually became more abstract as she experimented with collage materials in an intense focus on composition.
Lynne has lived in Florida, California, New Jersey, Virginia, Kentucky, and now in the beautiful Finger Lakes region of New York State . She's worked as a secretary, a writer, an editor, a publisher, a junior-high English and Math teacher (six months), a business trainer and manager, a Kirby vacuum cleaner salesperson (one week), a leather crafter, and a college professor. Through most of it, she kept painting, and since the spring of 2000 she has been painting full time in her studio in Ithaca, New York.
In the early eighties Lynne switched from oil paint to acrylics. She found that acrylics fit her style better because they dry quickly. She works on a painting over many days, adding layers that accumulate without totally eradicating the previous layers. She paints standing up, listening to loud music. The process or action of the painting allows her to express her intentions through the motion of the brush or palette knife. Like jazz, the heart of her art is improvisation.
Lynne's work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums throughout the United States and abroad. Stan Bowman, retired Chair of the Cornell University Art Department, said in a review of Lynne's recent show At the Clinton House ArtSpace in Ithaca: "Taetzsch is a painter very much in the tradition of the best of 20 th century abstraction."
Describing her painting process, Lynne says: I am of course indebted to all the artists who came before me, for the wonderful ways they have transmuted color, line and shape. Some of my very special art connections are Miro, Kandinsky, Matisse, DeKooning, Hans Hoffman, Helen Frankenthaler, and Joan Mitchell.
In the early stages of a painting, I work very fast. This helps give my art its sense of energy and spontaneity. I like to trick my conscious mind by not letting it have too much control over what happens. In some ways I'm creating a mess or a problem that I then have to solve in order to make the painting work.
It's the painting surface that I love - the lusciousness of color in its thick and thin varieties, flat and opaque to keep the eye on the surface, or transparent and airy to suggest deep space. My goal is to stay as close to the edge as possible, to keep that sense of organic happening, as if the painting had grown itself rather than having been crafted by me. |
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