Cassandra, Agamemnon, Clytemnestra- Triptych, Pastel on Black Paper

Cassandra, Tali Gai, Pastel on Black Paper, 2009

Cassandra, Clytemnestra, Agammemnon, Tali Gai, Pastel on Black Paper 2009

ArtSpace New Haven Solo Show - Drawings, Curated by Liza Statton

Untitled, Tali Gai, 2008

Untitled, Tali Gai, 2008

Self-Portrait, Tali Gai, 2008

Untitled, Tali Gai, 2008


I had the good fortune of being chosen by curator Liza Statton of Artspace New Haven and formerly of Mass MOCA and SITE Santa Fe for a solo show this past January and February. All the drawings are still at ArtSpace being kept in their Flatfile of Artists work. Many thanks to Liza for her support of my work.

Projet Pere / Mere

These are my two drawings for the Project Pere / Mere curated by Yves Haddad and mounted at a TBA museum/ gallery in Paris and Italy. (For more info contact yvesperemere@gmail.com) I enjoyed creating these pieces. It was a real test of my command of principles as they were done from photographs. The photograph of the young girl (me, at 6) had a particular lack of information but I am proud to say that my leaning on the Tim Stotz method of asking "what must be there" works. I basically created the high points of the contour and then just made arching, draping, and twisting pathways/ eye movements to find radiating packed forms and guessing where the smaller subforms/ planes had to be based on the radiating movements from the contour. Really thinking a lot about the arching and draping of patterns of light across the form lately in order to keep my vision large as I create subforms as well as their wide to narrow 3d shape. It's all about recording eye movement, I think. Pontormo- ahhh...I trace my eyes through a pontormo drawing these days to warm up. That guy could draw like an angel. Ahhhh....the Italians...and of course, the French, too....

ARTISTES PARTICIPANT AU PROJET PERE MERE
KIKI PICASSO/KILLOFFER/ STEPHANE BLANQUET / GERARD FROMANGER
ROBERT CRUMB / WINSHLUSS (VINCENT PARONNAUD )/ JEROME ZONDER
NICOLAS DE CRECY/ /DAVID B / PASCAL RABATE/ JEAN MICHEL THIERIET
VINCENT VANOLI/ RENAUD PERRIN/ JULIEN MARTINIERE / U235 / MATT KONTUR
MARIE VDB / ADELINE LOISEAU/ MINE AKKRJJE/REGIS RIZZO/ CHLOE TALLOT
IRIS LEVASSEUR/ MAHE BOISSEL/FLORENCE RAYMOND et OLIVIER PASSIEUX
NOEMIE BARSOLLE/ JEAN LOUIS COSTES /ELSA CHA/ EMA PRADERE /SYLVIE BARDET
NICOLE CLAVELOUX / PASCAL GUICHARD /SOPHIE PIGERON/PERDITA CORLEONE
MARIE NOEL DOBY/ ANNA FOKA / MAIA SAMBONNET /FRANCK SORBIER
CECILE DE CORNIQUET/ MANYWILD /LORENZO MATTOTTI /JOKO/ LAURIE LIPTON
MARIE CELINE REY / ROCCO / IVAN SIGG / GABRIELLA MORAWETZ/ROMA NAPOLI
PHILIPPE BORDERIEUX /VALERIE DANTES MOTA / STEPHANE PENCREAC’H
PHILIPPE LAGAUTRIERE /ZEINA ABIRACHED/DELLACROIX and DELFINA/ PAUL DUCHIEN /PATRICK JANNIN
MICHAEL MOHR /MARIE B CAOS /BERNARD DEMANGE/INES TOLENTINO / TALI GAI
KARINE ROUGIER/JEROME MINARD/ YOUCEF KORICHI /CRISTINE GUINAMAND
SPEEDY GRAPHITO/BEATRICE TANAKA / PHILIPPE LEMAIRE/ANNE BRUNET/SUNNY BUICK
CATHERINE BAY / LAURIE LIPTON / LAURENT GODARD / GWENAEL SALAUN

Ode to Simone Vouet - Part I

(Copy of Vouet Nymph, Fall/ Winter 2008)

(Finished Version, winter 2008)

(Unfinished Version, Fall 2008) A copy of Simone Vouet's St. Michael. I love the radiating, fanning shapes of light. So beautiful. I didn't quite finish putting in the shadow and reflected light on the stomach and pecks and the consequent rounding and ending sequence of subforms but hope to get to it soon. I learned a lot from doing this copy - it was particularly exciting to see the "hands grabbing" of light shapes and physical structures that Tim talks about in class. I could especially see it in the terminators (i.e. the terminator between the deltoid and bicep on the arm thrust forward). So beautiful.

Egg Study

Hello again. I hope that everyone is well. I am still in France studying classical realism. I have been doing quite a few egg studies. Here is one that I just finished.

Ahhh...Heaven at Last

Hi all,

Apologies for taking so long to post something new. A lot has been going on - lots of big changes, all for the good. Hopefully I'll be posting more frequently now.

So...about now. I'm here in Argenton-Chateau for six months taking exceptional classes with Tim and Michelle. I'm a lucky lucky girl and count my blessings every day. Here's a picture of me with Michelle giving me some awesome tips about my rounding study... actually, even better, she's demoing for me on my canvas. I love it! So helpful. Becky and Tim (Arbon) are behind us.

Okay- I promise to post some pics soon. Eggs, roses, and whatnot ;)

Blue Rose

Okay. First, let me apologize for the image being sideways ! I couldn't figure out how to rotate it. That being said....This is my first attempt at a painting a day. It is a quick (relatively quick) study of a blue rose for a larger painting. I started with a burnt sienna mush (burnt sienna and a medium consisting of turp, damar, stand oil, etc) and whiped out the dark light and light light. Then I went right into a first pass. In painting this again (on the larger canvas that it's intended for) I think I'm going to do an underpainting indicating the fall of light with more accurate blue hues rather than a burnt sienna mush - because I found the warmth of the mush very distracting as it kept poking it's head through the thicker layers of paint, making areas too warm, and thus requiring a second pass where one pass could have worked. Lesson learned! Any way. I look forward to having a bit more time with this one in the larger painting that it's intended for.....

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