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Brooklyn, NY
Tamara Zahaykevich, "Pearl Onion", Bellwether Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2003, bellwethergallery.com
Tamara Zahaykevich, Arena @ Feed, Brooklyn, NY, 2001
Artists Imagine Architecture, ICA Boston, Boston, MA, 2002, icaboston.org
End of the Rainbow, Bellwether Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2002
Shitter, Get Off the Pot, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL, 2000
Domain, The Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY, 1998
Museum Studies: Contemporary Artists' Responses to the L.C. Bates Museum, L.C. Bates Museum, Hinckley, ME, 1995
Macdowell Colony Fellowship, Peterborough, NH, 1998
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME, 1995
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Fellowship, 1995
Tyler School of Art Fellowship for Skowhegan, 1995
"Artists Imagine Architecture". Morgan, Jessica. ICA Boston, May 22, 2002.
"Architectural Visions Keep Dreamers Awake". Cotter, Holland. NY Times, July 12, 2002
"Supermodels". Temin, Christine. Boston Globe, May 24, 2002
"Frank Webster - Tamara Zahaykevich, Arena @ Feed". Cotter, Holland. NY Times, Feb. 16, 2001.
"Frank Webster- Tamara Zahaykevich, Arena @ Feed". Hamburger, Susan. Waterfront Week, Vol. 11-2. Jan. 25-Feb. 7, 2001.
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Sculpture, Tyler School of Art, 1995.
Tyler School of Art in Rome, 1991
Tamara Zahaykevich's works are quasi-architectural models of spaces, fragments and cross sections of imagined places. In the miniature scale of maquettes, they are self-sufficient entities. Their execution is deliberately imperfect, displaying an awkwardness and vulnerability like a community of misfits.
The traditionally rigid and dimensionless material is teased with straight cuts and scoring, bending and forcing to become rounder and organic, like fissures on stone or cumulus clouds. The works are somewhat rough-hewn in their exposed foam-core joinery; holes filled with bits and scraps; and showing glue seams. Nods to building convention, such as buttressing and keystone-like cuts are fantastical and absurd.
Drawings, 2-D inspirations and scraps are starting points and windows of opportunity. Color choices range from model-maker's landscaping beiges and greens, to acid neons, some logical, and many nonsensical. It also implies texture-as in one work, a kind of "dust storm"-referencing these spaces in their environment. A constant tension between the abstract and representation exists.
Informed by everyday experiences and individual responses to space and containment, these works reflect a desire to create environments that reflect ourselves, to project our personalities on every place that we live, to create something perfect out of a process of imperfection.
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