Taneya Lovelace
b. 1975, San Francisco ∙ CE artist since 1998
Taneya Lovelace creates dramatic abstract mixed media works, layering rich colors and organic forms to build complex compositions with much visual movement. Lovelace is a determined and focused artist while at practice, painting in meditative stints, usually color by color. Lovelace’s expansive abstractions can sometimes be interpreted as landscapes composed of basic painterly forms – circles, dots and marks.
Occasionally, Lovelace will use an ink wash over large portions of her work, obscuring even more layers of marks and washes underneath. Lovelace’s practice of layering The building of colors and interplay between complex layers of marks and soothing pools of color, becomes more evident as the viewer settles into the work. Lovelace has taken this process a step further, by layering arrays pages from books and magazines into her work.
Several of Lovelace’s more recent large-scale works are prominently displayed in the lobby of Avalon at Mission Bay, a San Francisco residential development. For Creativity Explored's highly acclaimed 2015 exhibition, Super Contemporary, she collaborated with Alicia McCarthy, prominent member of San Francisco's Mission School.
Select Exhibitions & Projects
2016
Tabula Rasa, Creativity Explored , San Francisco, CA
2015
Forte, Creativity Explored , San Francisco, CA
Super Contemporary, Creativity Explored , San Francisco, CA
2013
Breaking Barriers: Bay Area Artists with Disabilities, Marin Community Foundation Offices, Novato, CA
2012
Out of Order, Creativity Explored, San Francisco, CA
2011
Black and White and Read All Over, Creativity Explored, San Francisco, CA
Structure, Creativity Explored , San Francisco, CA
2008
The Untitled, Creativity Explored, San Francisco, CA
2006
Vessels, Creativity Explored, San Francisco, CA
2004
Spirits and Saints, Creativity Explored, San Francisco, CA
You Are Here, Creativity Explored, San Francisco, CA
Critters, Creativity Explored, San Francisco, CA
Heads n' Tails, Creativity Explored, San Francisco, CA
Contextual, Creativity Explored, San Francisco, CA
