Lynne Taetzsch

"PAINTING IS AN ADVENTURE WHERE I DISCOVER COLOR, FORM AND LINE IN A NEW WAY ON EACH CANVAS.

I've loved art since I was a kid spending all my allowance on art and craft supplies. When I was a teenager, I sketched and painted portraits of everyone in the family who would sit for me.

At Cooper Union in NYC, I studied life drawing and two and three-dimensional design, but I also fell in love with the abstract expressionist painters I saw in the galleries downtown. My own art became more abstract until I found a way to express myself through gesture and improvisation.

Each new blank canvas is a challenge and an adventure. I paint standing up at an easel, listening to music, responding spontaneously to the image in front of me. I'm in love with color, form and movement--exploring new paths for the eye to take as it sweeps the emerging composition."

Lynne’s dynamic paintings have been exhibited widely in galleries and museums, and her work is collected by individuals and institutions throughout the world. She paints in her home studio in Ithaca, NY.

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA: Fine Arts major, 1959-60
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science And Art, New York, NY: Fine Arts major, 1961-63
University of California, Los Angeles, CA: Fine Arts major, 1965-66
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL: PhD in Creative Writing, 1992

Solo Exhibitions

Abstract Meditations, CAP ArtSpace Gallery, Ithaca, NY 2016

New Abstract Expressionist Paintings, The Frame Shop Gallery, Ithaca, NY 2013

Improvisation on Canvas, The Kitchen Theater, Ithaca, NY 2012

Abstract Paintings, Salati Gallery, Binghamton, NY 2011

New Abstract Paintings, CAP ArtSpace, Ithaca, NY 2010

Patterns in Abstract Art, Cayuga Museum of History & Art, Auburn, NY 2009

Abstract Refractions, Upstairs Gallery, Ithaca, NY 2007

Black & White & Color, Tompkins County Airport, Ithaca, NY 2006

Featured Artist, Arts Crawl, The Gallery at Hawthorne Plaza, Overland Park, KS 2004

Fundamental Energy, Shangri-La Gallery, Ithaca, NY 2004

New Work by Lynne Taetzsch, Clinton House ArtSpace, Ithaca, NY 2001

Improvisation in Color, Community School of Music & Art, Ithaca, NY 2000

Recent Paintings, Tompkins Cortland Community College, Dryden, NY 2000

New Acrylic Paintings, Gallery for the Arts, Mt. Sterling, KY 1998

Recent Works, Astrea Gallery, Washington, DC 1991

Acrylic Paintings, Division of Cultural Affairs Gallery, Tallahassee, FL 1990

Selected Paintings, President's Gallery, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 1990

Recent Acrylic Paintings, Hartley Gallery...