Tamar Zinn
Tamar Zinn is a visual artist whose work balances light-infused romanticism and reductive structure. Both oil paintings on panel and oil stick drawings on paper are integral to her studio practice and distinct in both intention and process. Zinn works loosely, and intuitively, alternately building up and sanding down layers of paint until she finds, as she describes, “the just right balance between activity and calm, between reasoned decision making and intuition.”
Her marks reflect her experience of nature and the world but are not of it. She says”
“The thread that runs through my paintings and drawings is the embrace of the transitory nature of our experiences. While the gestures may be evocative of many things, my drawings depict nothing in particular.”
Recent exhibits of Zinn’s work include Where I find myself, a 2021 solo exhibit of paintings at Markel Fine Arts, NYC, and Liminal Space, a 4-person show at Bryant Street Gallery, Palo Alto, in 2020 where Zinn exhibited a selection of drawings. Zinn has curated several group exhibitions and periodically blogs about contemporary art. Her work is included in corporate and private collections throughout the United States, including Her work has been placed in public and private collections throughout the United States, including Citibank, Fidelity, IBM, McKinsey, MD Anderson Cancer Center, and NYU-Langone Medical Center. Tamar Zinn lives and works in New York City and her oil paintings on panel and paper are represented by Kathryn Markel Fine Arts with two locations in New York City.