Tammra Sigler

Facets, fragments, random ideas
Float, stop and land without plan
Or reason
Only to create form
And pattern
Recognizable repetitions
To be dealt with
discovered
uncovered
understood.
If we are open
The story of happenstance can tell all.

When I step up to the canvas I make a mark... and then another...and another. I let the marks create their own journey on the surface...weaving, constructing, and interacting until patterns and relationships begin to speak to each other and to me. I play and talk to the canvas with my brush. It speaks back. If I listen carefully, I learn what my paintings are about. I am always amazed at their truth.

As a working professional artist for over forty years, I have moved through and experimented with many different phases. Looking back, I can always see the logical evolution and flow into every new area. My paintings take me to each new place....I just follow. I like to work in a series....trying to develop and push an idea to see how far I can dig and how much I can learn from it.....to ask it more questions. I discipline myself to stay with an idea until, one day, it is all painted out. Although my subject matter and conceptual ideas may appear to change as I mov...

-Syracuse University School of Fine Arts

-Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore MD. BFA in 1965 with Honors in
Painting

Tammra Sigler has shown her work extensively and been awarded many prizes in the Baltimore/Washington area as well as Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, Lexington, Palm Beach, and throughout South America. Tammra’s work has been acquired by The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. and the Baltimore Museum of Art. It is included in many private collections both nationally and internationally. Her work has been selected twice (1994, 2000) to be represented in the national publication “NEW AMERICAN PAINTINGS” by OPEN STUDIO PRESS. Some of her corporate collections include Chase Manhattan Bank of New York, Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co., Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, Health Insurance Association of America, Federal Reserve Bank of Virginia, Ayres/Saint/Gross Inc., Equitable Trust Bank, Shelter Development Corporation, Murdock Development Corporation of Los Angeles, Deloitte and Touche, The Johns Hopkins Oncology Center, Percontee Corporation, Commercial Credit Corporation, W. B. Doner Inc., Advertising Agency, United States Consulate, Spain, Health Insurance Association of America, Washington, Gordon Feinblatt Rothman Hoffberger and Hollander, Piper and Marbury, University of Maryland, Tows...