TALYA BAHARAL painter

TALYA BAHARAL | Painter

TALYA BAHARAL selected paintings

Looking at asphalt road repairs, broken ice sheets on a river, a mended seam on a garment or a mangled wire on a trash heap I marvel at unintended compositions. In my mind those fugitive lines are re-imagined, in ltrate and chart new boundaries.

Paint stretches like skin over the ink armature and becomes the connective tissue that suggests form.

However, the intention of line, whether an audacious gesture or a delicate insertion, punctures the opaque skin and asserts its presence. Intricacies of line are at the core of my work. I like to disturb surfaces. By disrupting perceptions of harmony through digging back into the layers, exposing previous visual thoughts, a dialog emerges telling the story of the painting.

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I am absorbing, feeling, thinking and exploring my journey through and with paint. I paint for moments of clarity. I paint for the times I nd the courage to destroy and rebuild. I paint to feel alive.

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Blue Re ection. 2019 Acrylic and ink on watercolor paper mounted on wood panel. 22”h x 30w x 2”d

What Remains #4.

2018 Acrylic, ink and collage on heavy watercolor paper 42” X 42”

Untitled (1283).

2020.

Acrylic, Ink and collage on wood panel.

43” x 43” x 2”

Extended Across.

2021 Acrylic on watercolor Paper. 38”x50”

Stimulus. 2021 Acrylic, ink and collage on heavy watercolor paper 38” x 50”

Pink Madness. 2019 Acrylic, ink and collage on watercolor paper 22”h x. 30”w

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Growing. 2019

Ink and Acrylic on ve watercolor paper panels

15”h x 75”w

Crossing. 2021

Ink, acrylic and collage on heavy watercolor paper. 38”h x 50”w

Earthbound. 2020 Acrylic on watercolor paper. 11” h x 15”w

Navigational Challenge.

2021.

Acrylic on heavy watercolor paper 38”h x 50”w

Riding It Out. 2021

Ink, acrylic and collage on heavy watercolor paper. 38” X 50”

Red Tilt. 2021. Acrylic on heavy watercolor paper

38” x 50”

What’s In A Voice#10. 2021 Ink, acrylic and collage on watercolor paper 12” x 12”

Striations.

2019 Ink, acrylic on Watercolor paper 32” x 40”

Conversation.

2018 Acrylic on wood panel 35.5” x 47.5” x 2”

Blue October. 2021 Acrylic on watercolor paper. 38” x 50”

Voices. 2021 Acrylic, ink and collage on wood panel 11” x 15” x 1.5”

Thinking of Miro. 2021 Acrylic and collage on wood panel 11” x 15” x 1.5”

Best Laid Plans. 2021 Acrylic, ink and collage on wood panel 20” x 20” x 1.5”

What’s In A Voice #14. 2021 Ink and acrylic on watercolor paper 9” x 12”

Submerged.

2019 Ink, acrylic and collage on watercolor paper 30” h x 22”w

Top: Quarantined Window. 2020 Ink and acrylic 9”h x 12”w Bottom: Fugitive Lines #13. 2021 Ink and acrylic 9”h x 12”w

Uncomfortable. 2018. Acrylic and Ink on watercolor paper mounted and framed. 40”h x 64”w

BIO While living on the coast of Maine, in 2013, I began to focus exclusively on painting. Studied with Steve Aimone in Thomaston Maine; in workshops and marathons at the Woodstock School of Art and at the New York Studio School of painting and sculpture in NYC with Fran O’Neill and John Lees.

A solo show of my paintings was recently exhibited at Five Points Gallery, Torrington CT. Several paintings were part of group shows in Chelsea, Sonoma County and the Hudson Valley. I am represented by Galley Lulo in Healdsburg, CA, and my work is included in private collections in the US and abroad.

Born in Tel Aviv and raised there and in London. I worked in television production in advertising (in London) and then for CBS News in Tel Aviv during the peace process of the historic visit of President Saadat to Jerusalem. In 1979 moved to NYC and worked on the Foreign Desk at CBS News in New York and as a researcher for Universe show with Walter Cronkite.

A passion for the art of jewelry led me to create wearable objects in 1984.

For over three decades my work was widely exhibited, published and sold nationally and abroad, garnering awards and grants. In 2007 I was a NYFA fellow and in 2011 a juror for the NYFA sculpture/Craft category. I was the curator of the “500 Silver Jewelry Design” book published by Lark Books/ Sterling Publishing in 2011.

Now back in the Hudson Valley I paint in my studio in Kingston NY.

Talya Baharal. 2021

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