LORRAINE TADY
Photo of Inter-Spatial Installation by Allison V. Smith
Tady (American, b.1967) is an artist living and working in Dallas, TX. She has been represented by the Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX, since 1994, with various shows of her paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture.
Her first solo exhibition with the gallery was in 1999 and her eighth solo Inter-Spatial took place May 2024. Her most recent group exhibitions and publications include On Screen/Off Screen: Contemporary Painting and Technology, Barry Whistler Gallery; Texas Women: A New History of Abstract Art, San Antonio Museum of Art; The Adjacent Possible, Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, VA; and MULTILAYER Vision 20/20, Stiftung Konzeptuelle Kunst, Germany. The Dallas Museum of Art awarded her a Kimborough Award (1993) and a Dozier Travel Grant (2015).
Artist Statement:
For nearly three decades, my work has explored a process-oriented conceptual abstraction. My "painting" has always been about a wrestle between painting, drawing, sculpture/building, and printmaking. My unique visualizations of architectonic engines or machines, satellite-like hoverings or activated, interconnected energy systems have vacillated over the years between "things" or "activities" within spatial or sonic data fields. Writers have suggested my work as "graphing the invisible" in a saturation of geometric vectors. My line building in space engages the viewer to watch the scene unfurl as imagery leads the eye towards shifting perceptual observation.
My artwork is arrived at through a method of investigative diagramming, translation and re-translation of my visual vocabulary. Images are intuitively found, extracted, analyzed, shifted and represented in various arrays. Orthogonal projections, plan, elevation, cross-section, stellations, and extrusion have enabled me to distill the known and unknown from my work to build an imaginary world---but not with computer assisted drawing. All are my "one of a kind" visionary interpretations of engineering and architectural language.
Drawing is at the heart of my image-making, whether drawn with brush and paint on a grey BFK heavyweight paper ground, incised on a copper plate, or ink or oil directly on prepared canvas with color grounds. Printmaking reveals itself as a transformation tool, whether printing on a press or with a UV printer onto painted canvas. Elements are incised on mutiple plates, and the printed layering of several individual images make new, singular images. Sometimes these resulting images are simply re-drawn and newly explored. Recognizing technology as an artistic tool, but not using CAD drawing, sections of my drawings may be re-examined in digital explorations (printed, altered, re-scanned) and either used as ground layers for painting, digital paintings or new hybrid prints. Both my traditional and digital works of art are influenced by a fertile back and forth visual dialog where onscreen explorations instigate important off-screen paintings, works on paper and vice versa---contemporary "painting/drawing/printmaking" moving with the future of art.
Instagram and Facebook: Lorraine Tady. Contact: lorraine.tady@utdallas.edu
Latest SOLO SHOW "Inter-Spatial" May 18 - June 22, 2024
Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
Installation images:
https://www.barrywhistlergallery.com/exhibitions/lorraine-tady-inter-spatial
Artsy:
https://www.artsy.net/artist/lorraine-tady
Review:
https://glasstire.com/2024/06/21/surreal-in-texas-two-exhibitions-in-dallas/
Previous reviews:
https://linktr.ee/Lorraine_Tady
