Tamara Wasserman

« Art making is an asynchronous diary of daily events. The process is extreme and the result is surprising. »

Tamara Wasserman is an artist based in the United States whose paintings have been featured in solo and group exhibitions nationally. She describes her most recent works as resulting from the fusion of observation with emotion. Omitting the details of faithful observation, Wasserman concentrates on the essentials, allowing "intense emotion to find its free abstracted expression". She creates using oils, acrylics, oil pastels, and charcoal on canvas or wood.

Tamara was born in Riga, Latvia, and raised in Israel where she graduated from the Bezalel Art Academy in Jerusalem. Tamara is a visual artist, performer and writer. Her work is in private collections in the US, Israel, Switzerland and England. Tamara has exhibited in galleries of New York City, Chicago, Boston, Tel-Aviv, and Ann Arbor, Michigan. Tamara’s studio is at Bridgeport Art Center in Chicago. Wasserman's artistic family includes: Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Paul Gauguin, and Edvard Munch. Her work is deeply influenced by early Surrealism and DaDa.

Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel, 1987

"In the Garden of Gods"
Solo Exhibition, Timeless Arts Gallery, Chicago, 2024
"Local Color" Artists Showcase, Oak park, Illinois, 2024
Migrations in Black and White
Group Exhibition, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Stitched Time - Oliva Gallery, Chicago, USA, Oct-Nov.2023, Curator and Participating Artist
Freeport Art Museum Annual Juried Show, Finalist, Freeport IL USA, May-July 2023
Solo Exhibition - VISCERAL, at Oliva Gallery, Chicago, USA, May 2022
GEOGRAPHICALLY SPEAKING
Solo Exhibition at 136 ENCLAVE, Oak Park, Il, USA
January - April 2022

DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES
Group show @ Fulton Street Collective in Chicago, USA

October - November 2021
BAC 9th Competition and Juried Show.
Summer 2021, BAC, Chicago, USA
Jan. - Febr. 2021

REST IN POWER
Juried exhibition honoring the Life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg at Stola Contemporary Art Gallery, Chicago
Sept. - Nov. 2020
WHERE'S THE REVOLUTION?
Curated Group Show at Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago.
Curator Marci Rubin
June - September 2020
MUSIC UNITES US on display in Oak Park Public Library's window in support of BLACK LIVES MATTER Movement
July 17 - Sept. 3
SUMMER INVITATIONAL Group Exhibition at Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago
Dec. 2109 -Jan.2020
Elephant Room Gallery 1...