this is my STOry
AND I'M STICKIN' TO IT.
I’m an artist. I make drawings on paper and ceramics and add found objects as collage elements or assemble them as stand-alone sculptures . I’ve made art since I was a kid. Mom always kept me supplied with crayons and chalk. She also taught me to look closely, pay attention to detail, and keep my found objects in manageable order.
I like clean and simple – black blacks on white whites. Franz Kline’s paintings at MOMA (I cried when I saw my first), Robert Motherwell’s “Elegy” series (I miss his monumental painting at the entrance to the National Gallery). Gesture and movement – Calder’s wire sculptures and Cartier-Bresson’s “Decisive Moment” photos. Matisse’s color and translucent under-paintings, Picasso’s contour and line drawings, Irving Penn’s North Light Studio portraits (thanks Tony), Jean Michel Basquiat's paintings on everything, Richard Diebenkorn’s “Ocean Park” series, Wayne Thiebaud's cityscapes and Alice Neel’s figure paintings.
My art is about the process and feel of drawing and assembling. My best work is spontaneous and without plan. Subject matter centers around relationships, architecture, road trips and landscapes. Recurring symbols are figures, houses, mountains, pitch-forks, animals and wheels.
I look up AND OUT when I walk.
EILEEN TANTILLO
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