Artist: Paulette Tavormina
Title: Botanical VII, Tulips, 2015
Year created: 2015
Medium: Archival Digital Photographic Print
Edition: open edition
Height (inches): 8
Width (inches): 8
Signed by the artist
Signed Area: back
This piece is unframed.
Artist bio:
Paulette Tavormina lives and works in New York City. Amidst the bustle that defines the city, she can often be found at one of the city’s many farmers markets searching for the perfectly imperfect flora that characterize her photographs. Her arrangements often recall the sumptuous detail of seventeenth century Old Master still life painters and serve as intensely personal interpretations of timeless, universal stories.
With a painterly perspective reminiscent of Francisco de Zurbarán, Adriaen Coorte and Giovanna Garzoni, Tavormina creates worldly still lives. She was awarded the Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant in 2016. Her monograph book, Paulette Tavormina: Seizing Beauty was published by The Monacelli Press, 2016 and reviewed by The New York Times and Architectural Digest. Tavormina’s photographs are in museum, corporate and private collections and have been exhibited in Paris, London, Moscow, Lugano, New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Palm Beach, Boston, Palm Desert and San Francisco.
Tavormina also works as a commercial photographer - she has photographed works of art for Sotheby’s, collaborated with The Fabulous Beekman Boys on their three heirloom cookbooks and photographed The Del Posto Cookbook with chef Mark Ladner, published by Hachette. She has been commissioned by National Geographic Magazine and The New York Times among others.
Previously, Tavormina was a prop and food stylist in Hollywood, her work seen on the silver screen in seven films such as Nixon, The Astronaut's Wife and The Perfect Storm. Solo Museum Shows The Academy Art Museum, Easton, Maryland, 2016 Snite Museum of Art at Notre Dame University, South Bend, Indiana, 2016 Museum Collections Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, Michigan Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana Alimentarium, Musée de l’Alimentation, Vevey, Switzerland Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida.
Photo courtesy of the artist and Robert Mann Gallery.