New York City, New York (PressExposure) October 29, 2011 -- Sleek, serene colors, tempered with celestial light, distinguish the works of painter Tarah Nutter. With opulent nuance of texture, paint cascades through Nutter's paintings with startling poeticism. With a soft, ethereal treatment of her subjects, the artist paints fantastic, whimsical landscapes with a sensuous sensitivity towards the essence of her focus. Transfixed by the wonders of the natural world, she observes the fields, trees and flowers in her sight with a distinctive, mystical eye for the capriciously stunning. Nutter believes that painting mediates the vibrations that constitute the essence of painting and thus, between our selves. "As in meditation the goal is to refine the inner vibration," she explains. "In painting it is the vibrations and relationships between forms and colors within the work that I'm interested in." In speaking to these relationships through painterly, delicately lavish brushwork, Nutter portrays the beauty inherent in all facets of the natural world.
Born in Hollywood, Tarah Nutter lives and works in Santa Rosa, California. |
Art Medium: Oil, Gouache, Water Color, Ink, Charcoal
Education: UCLA, Bennington College, Boston Conservatory, Banff School of Fine Arts, American Conservatory, Chapman University, Monterey Peninsula College, Dick Crispo Shows: Towers Gallery Exhibition 2013 - Towers Gallery, Cloverdale, CA 07/05/13 -10/06/13 Art @ the Source Open Studio Tour 2013 -Sebastopol Art Center Petaluma Art Center Members Show 2012 Ancien Wine/Art Show - Napa 2012 Ocean of Art 2012 R. Blitzer Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA The Persistence of Form 2011 Agora Gallery 530 W. 25th St. New York, NY Games People Play - Occidental Center for the Arts 2011 Petaluma Art Center Members Show - 2010 View Points Gallery, Point Reyes, CA 2010 Tarah Nutter Retrospective - West Lynn Library, Oregon - 2006 Endangered Landscapes/2000 Salinas Courthouse 11th & 12th Annual Monterey County Studio Art Tour/ 1999-2000 Lisa Cosino Gallery, Pacific Grove, CA 2000 Day in the Life of Pacific Grove/1999 Pacific Grove Art Center Henry Miller Library/Gallery, Big Sur, CA 1998 |