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Artist Statement:
Growing up in communist
Czechoslovakia, as the
daughter of Holocaust
survivors, I learned to
mistrust authority and
question official doctrines.
The current political
landscape with the erosion of
civil liberties, the
misinformation fed to us by
our leaders and the
manipulation of facts by the
media has motivated me to
refocus my artistic concerns
from exploring my personal
history, albeit political, to
taking a direct stance on
contemporary politics.
I use media, especially the
newspaper, as my primary
source material. The images
and text fragments are
processed in a way that
parallels political
maneuvering (deal making). My
work is tactile. Layers of
inky marks form the images.
The inherent messiness
references political
corruption, loss of innocence,
and encapsulates a specific
moment in time. History
defines us. History haunts us.
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| Your Personal Biography |
Tatana Kellner is a visual artist with over 20 solo exhibitions in USA and Canada.
Tatana’s current work is perhaps the most direct commentary, in that it records people and texts found in the news. She uses the simplest means of drawing and collage to create her work. Covered in dust, rubble and layers upon layers of sediments, history and politics are only revealed after digging up a lot of dirt, both physically and figuratively. She works with images in a similar way, digging through layers of information to arrive at the final images.
Tatana’s work has been featured at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Fort Collins, Co, Center for Photography in Woodstock, NY, Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA and Creative Concepts in Beacon, NY, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY and District Fine Arts Gallery, Washington, DC among others.
In 2005 she received the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant. Tatana is also the recipient of two New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships, two Photographer’s Fund Award from the Center for Photography at Woodstock and Ruth Chenven Foundation Grant. She was awarded residencies at The MacDowell Colony (three times), Yaddo, Banff Centre for the Arts, Lightwork, Visual Studies Workshop, Saltonstall Art Colony, Millay Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Artpark Blue Mountain Center, Jentel and Ragdale Foundation.
Tatana is the founding member and Artistic Director of Women’s Studio Workshop, an artists’ workspace in Rosendale, NY where she is instrumental in helping artists publish and market limited edition artists’ books. Her work encompasses printmaking, photography and installation and she is the author of 11 limited edition artists’ books.
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