Mark Tambella, "Water Study"

Artiist Statement

My paintings continue along a figurative path drawn from earlier expressionistic landscape, portrait work, still life and combined painterly groupings of people working, participating in a moment; energetic, sexualized and often indecipherable. The work is about painting and drawing and attempts through it to inspire a kind of spiritual curiosity, like decoding a dream and reassembling it another day. My work is basically conceptual and relies on imagined and devised thinking rather than representation. I see painting and drawing is the medium for deliberate reflective decisions, working on multiple pieces often with different subject criteria, requiring the time in between and time away. Thinking and reflecting time. This forces a kind of meditation and structure on my otherwise unfortunate tendency to strangle the work or despair of its progress.

Artist Bio

Mark Tambella - marktambella@yahoo.com

Education School of Visual Arts, NYC 1971-1974

Solo Exhibitions

2020 LaMaMa Gallery NYC 'a body of painting' 2017-John Davis Gallery Hudson NY 2017-LaMama Gallery NYC 47 Great Jones 2015-John Davis Gallery Hudson NY 2013-LaMaMa Gallery NYC 2012-John Davis Gallery Hudson NY 2010-John Davis Gallery Hudson NY 2009- LaGalleria, 6 E 1st St NYC 2008- John Davis Gallery Hudson NY 2005- Marmara Manhattan Gallery 2001- LaGalleria /Paintings 6 E 1st St NYC 1997- LaGalleria/Paintings 1990- LaGalleria /Paintings 1980- TheBar/68 2nd Ave NYC

Selected Group Exhibitions 2004- LaMama Group Exhibition at LaGalleria 2003- LaGalleria/Dieter Hall and Mark Tambella /Flowers and Nudes 1991- Portrait Show/ PS122/ NYC 1990- Benefit Show for St Vincents Hospital 1990- LaGalleria/4on4 1985- Bill Rice Studio Show

Drawer 4- water study, gouache on rice paper 11x17 2011 100.