Ann Tarantino: Land Strains | Davis Editions / Davis Originals

Ann Tarantino’s new body of perform explores, combines, and pushes forward the visual language applied to explain natural and created landscapes. Natural and organic varieties reminiscent of flora and fauna intermix with geometric designs, this kind of as visitors cones, street markings, or the shapes of buildings. The ensuing images are energetic landscapes stitched alongside one another with pockets of order, bursting off the frame to recommend their existence outside the panel or paper’s edge. Combining laser-etched backgrounds that resemble topographic maps with colorful airbrushed layering, the works refer right to the artist’s time expended living and working in São Paulo, Brazil Kyoto, Japan and other urban and rural settings all through the United States. The paintings and operates on paper in Land Strains are both exuberant abstractions and commentary on the recent world context, in which ownership of and movement by way of land and civic area are not neutral functions.

Tarantino’s perform has been exhibited widely in the US and overseas, and has appeared in options ranging from museums and galleries to botanical gardens and metropolis streets. Recent initiatives involve public commissions for the Pittsburgh Worldwide Airport and the New York Metropolis Division of Transportation. She graduated with an honors degree in Visual Arts from Brown University and an MFA in Drawing and Painting from The Pennsylvania State College. Ann currently lives and works in Pennsylvania.

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