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