moderndallas.net features Tamara White

FEATURED ARTIST
TAMARA WHITE

Art has always been
a part of my life. My
earliest exposure to
art was my great-
grandmother who
worked with
charcoal making
squiggly lined
landscapes. We
would sit side-by-side
creating art
together and from
her came only words
of encouragement. I
remember being
especially drawn to
her colored charcoal
drawings, multitudes
of tiny colorful marks
that created a
scene.

Although our styles could not
be more different, color has
stayed with me. Though I have
worked with both oil and
acrylic paint, oil is my choice of
medium. The lushness that
comes from oil is irreplaceable. I
prefer to paint straight from
the tube using a palette knife
as an extension of my hand,
letting each color determine
what happens next. Each
color has a different viscosity
and when placed on top of
another reacts differently
depending on the amount of
pressure applied with the
palette knife. Within each
painting something new is
discovered and inspiration is
found.

My latest series expounds on my
multiple layered paintings by
scraping through and
manipulating the wet paint to form a
mirage of tiny paintings within the
canvas. With a massive amount of
leftover paint from the scraping, I will
begin a new painting by building
texture from the latter…reduce,
reuse, recycle

Typically, I will have at least five to
ten paintings working at
a time on various shapes and sizes
of canvas. Each painting inspires
the next.

The ladder series coincides with
the scratch series. It deals with
the loss of someone who has
impacted my life. The technique is
the same using multiple layers of
paint and color as a metaphor.
The ladder is the last image to
appear.

The thicker the paint, the better,
this is what my white paintings are
about. I begin by applying color
after color and then use white on
top to “erase” and build more
texture. I will repeat this process
until I am pleased with the end
result.

I hope it is apparent to the viewer
that I am passionate and have
fun at what I do.

for more details:

www.tamaraspaintings.com

Red Car Lot

Ladder for Winston

1 x 1 Offset

Lego House

Airstream

Heavy Traffic

Car Lot

Saltine

TAMARA WHITE

EDUCATION:

Arts Magnet at Booker
T. Washington

University of North
Texas, Creative
Photography

The University of Texas
at Dallas,
Interdisciplinary Studies

Brookhaven Continuing
Education, Studio
Classes

EXHIBITIONS:

2007 Star Chef’s
benefiting March of
Dimes

2007 Dallas Junior
League benefit at The
Ritz Carlton

2007 Art Party Dallas,
benefiting The March of
Dimes