Paulette Tavormina “Bodegón”
Robert Mann Gallery
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Drawing inspiration from Old World artists, Paulette Tavormina renders luscious fruit, flowers, and food with a painterly eye to create rich tableaux. These intensely personal pictures bring to light the evocative life cycles of flora and fauna, imperfect in their vigor and subsequent decay. Inextricably tied for the artist to sensation and memory, each still life finds particular temperament in the character and balance of its objects.
Robert Mann Gallery presents Bodegón, a new series of sumptuous works by Tavormina. Meaning “from the pantry,” Bodegón is inspired by the paintings of 18th-century Spanish still life painter Luis Meléndez. Featuring the elegant everyday cookware of the rustic kitchen, these spreads bring the artist’s signature gift for vibrant simplicity to a new cornucopia of grains, meats and sweets. Hearty loaves bookend bountiful fruits, grounded by burnished copper pots and humbly charismatic country jugs.
Accompanying Bodegón, Tavormina’s Botanicals series recalls the botanical illustrations of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, re-imagining these scientific studies as exuberant cascades of flora and fauna. A fantastical menagerie of bugs, buds, and dewy blossoms burst against velvety black depths, leading the eye in figure eights around the canvas. And yet Tavormina’s signature motifs of darkness and decay keep these works from pure flights of fancy—rather, they are visions of life in all of its subtle shades of beauty.
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from February 05, 2015 to March 21, 2015
Opening Reception on 2015-02-05 from 18:00 to 20:00