Tanya Fletcher

Tanya Fletcher’s current body of work consists of life sized figures rendered in oil with metal leaf backgrounds on Baltic birch. These multiple panel pieces are reductively painted. A monochromatic, even layer of oil color is applied and then selectively removed with a cloth. This results in a brush-free photographic-like realism. Also, the revealed grain of the wood suggests skin and/or contours of the body endowing the forms with a three-dimensional sculptural look. The illusion of depth & space is furthered by silhouetting the figures against a bright metal leaf background…a reverse chiaroscuro. The artist’s theatrical use of size & composition imbues these paintings with a taut level of emotional intensity. Fletcher’s acutely observed realism & objective approach to her figures also communicates a blunt psychological honesty & drama. This visceral aesthetic, however, still maintains an ambiguity.

* Carnegie Mellon University, B.F.A. 1989
* Syracuse Universities Division of International Programs Abroad: London, Fall 1988, Florence, Spring. 1989

GROUP SHOWS

· Mastcove Gallery, Kennebunkport, ME 1993

· Boat House Show, Kennebunkport, ME 1993

· Gallery 33, Portsmouth, NH, 1999

· Panache, Ogunquit, ME, 1999

· Lincoln Levy Gallery, Portsmouth, NH 2005

· Irvine Gallery, River Tree Center for the Arts, Kennebunk, ME 2005

· 2ndAnnual Black Frame Art Show, Portland, ME 2005

· Joan Whitney Payson Gallery, Portland, ME 2005

· “The Figure Revealed III”, Atrium Art Gallery, Lewiston, ME 2007

· Biennial 2007, NH Institute of Art, Manchester, NH Nov 2007

· “Up Close” Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME Aug-Sept 2007

· “Solstice Salon”, Daniel Kany Gallery, Portland, ME Dec 2007

· Thomas Moser LA Showroom, Culver City, CA March-April 2008

· “Biggest Little Art Show” Franklin St Art Space, Biddeford, ME Dec 2008

· “Grand Opening Group Show” Art House, Portland, ME Feb 2009

· “Just Look at Yourself”, Center for Maine Contempora...