Solo Exhibitions
Abstract Meditations, CAP ArtSpace Gallery, Ithaca, NY 2016
New Abstract Expressionist Paintings, The Frame Shop Gallery, Ithaca, NY 2013
Improvisation on Canvas, The Kitchen Theater, Ithaca, NY 2012
Abstract Paintings, Salati Gallery, Binghamton, NY 2011
New Abstract Paintings, CAP ArtSpace, Ithaca, NY 2010
Patterns in Abstract Art, Cayuga Museum of History & Art, Auburn, NY 2009
Abstract Refractions, Upstairs Gallery, Ithaca, NY 2007
Black & White & Color, Tompkins County Airport, Ithaca, NY 2006
Featured Artist, Arts Crawl, The Gallery at Hawthorne Plaza, Overland Park, KS 2004
Fundamental Energy, Shangri-La Gallery, Ithaca, NY 2004
New Work by Lynne Taetzsch, Clinton House ArtSpace, Ithaca, NY 2001
Improvisation in Color, Community School of Music & Art, Ithaca, NY 2000
Recent Paintings, Tompkins Cortland Community College, Dryden, NY 2000
New Acrylic Paintings, Gallery for the Arts, Mt. Sterling, KY 1998
Recent Works, Astrea Gallery, Washington, DC 1991
Acrylic Paintings, Division of Cultural Affairs Gallery, Tallahassee, FL 1990
Selected Paintings, President's Gallery, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 1990
Recent Acrylic Paintings, Hartley Gallery, Winter Park, FL 1990
Paintings by Lynne Taetzsch, Friends of Jung, San Diego, CA 1988
Oil Paintings, The Revelation, New York, NY 1971
Recent Oil Paintings, Paula Insel Gallery, New York, NY 1964
Group Exhibitions
Spring Floral Exhibit, Quintus Gallery, Watkins Glen, NY 2016
Homegrown: The Harriott Collection, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, 2011
Juried Exhibition, State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY, 2011
Art Trail Exhibiton, CAP ArtSpace, Ithaca, NY 2010
Past, Present, Gateway Regional Center for the Arts, Mt. Sterling, KY 2009
Mainly Blue, Community School of Music & Art, Ithaca, NY 2009
Landmark Gallery, New York, NY, 2009
Sola Gallery, Ithaca, NY, 2009
Ithaca Artists, Upstairs Gallery, Ithaca, NY 2008
2008 Invitational, State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY 2008
Group Exhibition, Syracuse Technology Garden, Syracuse, NY 2007
Global Tribe, 6-person show, Monkdogz Urban Art, New York, NY 2007
The New Abstractions, 3-person show, Hopper House Art Center, Nyack, NY 2007
Maj'Beldd, 8-person show, Monkdogz Urban Art, New York, NY 2006
ALTERnatives, four-person show, Wired Gallery, Bethlehem, PA 2005
Group Show, Bellaza Dentro, Nevis, West Indies 2005
Alchemy of Color, eight-person show, State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY 2005
Fifteenth Anniversary Group Show, State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY 2003
Women's Issues-A Commentary, Avenue Art Gallery, Endicott, NY 2003
Past Tense-Present Perfect, Autumn Leaves, Ithaca, NY 2003
Redefining Art, Avenue Art Gallery, Endicott , NY 2002
Summer Invitational, Period Gallery, Omaha, NE 2002
2002 Invitational, State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY 2002
Greater Ithaca Art Trail at Red Newt Cellars, Hector, NY 2001
A Woman's Work Is Never Finished, International Museum Gallery, Baltimore, MD 2001
Greater Ithaca Art Trail at Red Newt Cellars, Hector, NY 2000
Recent Works by Lynne Taetzsch & Wyman Rice, Kentucky Gallery, Lexington, KY 1999
Six-person Show, Soho South, West Palm Beach, FL 1999
Juried Show, 33rd Annual Central South Art Exhibition, Nashville, TN 1998
Juried Show, Masterpieces of Maturity, Loudon House, Lexington, KY 1998
Juried Show, Art on the Lake, Reston Art Gallery, Reston, VA 1992
Cultural Resources Juried Exhibition, LeMoyne Art Foundation, Tallahassee, FL 1992
Three-person Show, Artforms Gallery, Sarasota, FL 1991
Tenth Annual September Competition, Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA 1991
Juried Show, Hoyt National Art Show, New Castle, PA 1991
Juried Show, Aesthetics 91 Exhibition, McPherson, KS 1991
Juried Show, Westmoreland Arts National, Greensburg, PA 1990
Juried Show, Thirteenth National Art Exhibition, World Trade Center, New Orleans, LA 1990
First Place Prize, Juried Show, Foothills Festival of the Arts, La Mesa, CA 1989
Exhib.of Korean and American Women Artists, Modern Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1989
Group Show, Cosmopolitan Art Association, Seoul, So. Korea 1988
Three-person Show, Robin Hutchinson Gallery, Maplewood, NJ 1987
National Juried Color Show, Castle Gallery, Billings, MT 1985
Group Show, Art in Architecture, Windermere, FL 1985
Group Show, Goff Galleries, Winter Park, FL 1985
Group Show, Ithaca House Gallery, Ithaca, NY 1972
Juried Show, Donnell Library, New York, NY 1964
Juried Show, Dollar Savings Bank, New York, NY 1964
Group Show, Design Center-Mason Art, New York, NY 1964
Emily Lowe Competition, New York, NY 1964
Bibliography
Selected as New York State artist of the year by TOSCA, Fall, 2011
Exhibition Catalog, Homegrown: The Harriott Collection, Johnson Museum of Art, June 2011
Deeana Franklin, "Visionary Art," Clinical Psychiatry News, March 2007
Arthur Whitman, "Highlights In Winter," The Ithaca Times, 1/31/07
The Artful Home 2005, The Guild
Nancy Geyer, "Color Play," The Ithaca Times, 2/9/05
Katherine Klein, "Color Chemistry," The Ithaca Times, 2/1/05
Sarah Cotrupe, "Cyber Art," The Ithaca Times, 7/28/04
"Trendsetters: Emerging Artists," Art Business News, February, 2002
Stan Bowman , "Color Contrast," The Ithaca Times, 12/12/01
David Minton, "Poet's Art About 'Play, Ambiguity," Lexington Herald, Lexington, KY: 1/11/98
Ex. Catalog, Tenth Annual Competition, Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA: 1991
"Three Worlds at Artforms Gallery," Pelican Press, Siesta Key, FL: 12/27/00
P. Foster, "Artist Evokes Colorful Mindscapes," Florida Flambeau, Tallahassee, FL: 7/5/90
Rebecca Stephens, "Taetzsch's Paintings Erupt with Riot of Color and Motion," Florida Flambeau, Tallahassee, FL : 12/27/90
"The Prez's Place," Tallahassee Democrat : 6/15/90
"One-Woman Show," Tallahassee Democrat : 11/9/90
Ex. Catalog, Korean and American Women Artists, Modern Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Lynne Taetzsch chez Paula Insel," France-Amerique : 3/1/64
"Paula Insel," Park East, New York, NY : 2/20/64
Art Publications
Color reproductions of six paintings in The Art of Raw Living Food, Hay House, 2009
Color reproduction of acrylic painting on cover of The National Poetry Review, Winter, 2008
Color reproduction of acrylic painting on cover of Hot Flashes: Women Writers on the Change of Life, Faber & Faber, 1995
Color reproduction of acrylic painting on cover of Sundog, Spring, 1990
Reproduction of acrylic painting on cover of Pacific Review, Spring, 1989.
Line drawing in Pacific Review, Fall, 1988
Reproduction of acrylic painting and line drawings in multi-genre, multi-media essay "Hang the Critic 'and/both' Resurrect the Author," in Central Park, Fall, 1989
Art Talks and Literary Readings
Cayuga Museum of History and Art, Auburn, NY 2009: art talk
Hopper House Art Center, Nyack, NY 2007: art talk
Upstairs Gallery, Ithaca, NY 2007: art talk
Avenue Art Gallery, Endicott, NY, 2003: art talk
Community School of Music and Art, Ithaca, NY, 2000: art talk
Gallery for the Arts, Mt. Sterling, KY, 1998: art talk to board of directors
Bison Books, Mt. Sterling, KY, 1998: reading of poetry and prose to celebrate art opening
The Carnegie Center, Lex., KY, 1998: reading of short story at A Midsummer Night's Reading
Twentieth Century Literature Conference, Louisville, KY, 1998: reading of short story
The Carnegie Center, Lex., KY, 1996: reading, Hot Flashes, sponsored by The Writer's Voice
Adron Doran University Center, Morehead State University, 1996: reading of essay from Minding the Body in celebration of Women's History Month
Joseph Beth Bookstore, Lexington, KY, 1996: reading of essay, "Fighting Natural"
Prairie Lights Bookstore, Iowa City, IA, 1996: reading from Hot Flashes with discussion following, aired live on public radio
Border's Books, Des Moines, IA , 1996: reading from Hot Flashes
Astrea Gallery, Washington, DC, 1991: reading of poetry and prose at solo show opening
Education
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA : Fine Arts major, 1959-60
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science And Art, New York, NY : Fine Arts major, 1961-63
University of California, Los Angeles, CA : Fine Arts major, 1965-66
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL : PhD in Creative Writing, 1992
Monkdogz Urban Art, Chelsea, NY
Hartley Gallery, Winter Park, FL
Soho South, West Palm Beach, Florida
Orazio Salati Gallery, Binghamton, NY
Cayuga Museum, Auburn, NY
Division of cultural Affairs Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
The Kentucky Gallery, Lexington, KY
Corporate and Institutional Collectors
Holiday Inn restaurant, Knoxville, TN
Let's Gel, Inc., Austin, TX
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
Real Capital Analytics, New York, NY
Stratum Developments, Inc., Alberta, Canada
Advanced Liquid Logic, Cary, NC
Matrix Public Health Cons., Inc., New Haven, CT
DG Groep, The Netherlands
T-System, Inc., Dallas, TX
Kaiser Permanente, CA
Cubist Media Group, LLC, Philadelphia, PA
Parkside Partners, Atlanta, GA
Sheridan In Home Care, Inc., Los Angeles, CA
Clear Perspective Group, Medina, OH
Spark LP, New York, NY
Star Promotions, LLC, Indianapolis, IN
Samwoo Chemicals Ltd., North Point, Hong Kong
Logansport State Hospital, Logansport, IN
Scholar Corporation, Lafayette, IN
Pine Restaurant, Salt Lake City, UT
Full Sail, Winter Park, FL
Georgia State University, Alpharetta, GA
Dental Crafters, Marshfield, WI
American Tennis Court Contractors, Fort Worth, TX
Color Contrast
Review of Lynne's solo exhibit at the Clinton House Gallery by Stan Bowman
(Reprinted from the Ithaca Times, December 12, 2001, p. 14)
Red is the color of fire, hot, moving, sometimes dangerous. It is also the color of blood, that vital substance necessary for all human life. Red is demanding, attracting, arresting. Red is also associated with many different objects in our culture from fire hydrants to stop signs, all meant to get and hold our attention.
What I find intriguing in the acrylic paintings of Lynne Taetzsch, currently at the Artspace at the Clinton House Gallery, is that every work on display has some red in it. Some paintings are even dominated by this color, calling us to stop and look at them. It is as if energy is emanating from the works, bouncing off the walls in this room of modest size that can accommodate perhaps only 10 to 20 works. Standing in the middle I could feel an energy to this space created by the art, and myself attracted to examine each work carefully to find the sources of this power.
But the color red is only one part of the story. Taetzsch is a painter very much in the tradition of the best of 20th century abstraction. She understands how to organize a canvas, how to arrange elements with extraordinary control over their placement. One of the most interesting aspects of this show is that I found both works that have a clear visible sense of structure around some particular object while others have a looser balance of shapes and brush strokes. Both approaches work equally well.
"Red City" has a sharp-edged horizontal band of red color in the middle, bursting upwards and downward creating what can be seen as profiles of a city skyline, one right side up and the other upside down. In the background both above and below is what one might identify as a green sky. The red against the green creates a vibration of energy that grabs and holds our interest. "Seeds of Inquiry" is another painting with more clearly defined hard-edged shapes. Two circles of different size in the center of the canvas almost suggest a bullseye target, and play against outer squares of greens and browns. Layered on the circles are sweeping wave like shapes of red that move from the four outside edges toward the center, almost meeting, setting up a tension because they do not meet. A narrow horizontal strip of red almost bisects the painting and stabilizes it by suggesting a ground horizon line.
On the other hand, "Wizened" is one of those paintings that works with a looser sense of organization, with patches of overlaying colors and brushstrokes. The top two thirds has wide bands of browns and whites that almost make a circle, but the edges are soft and spread out almost disappearing into other soft strokes of similar colors. A soft-edged "X" of red is in the lower part of the painting but also melts into surrounding colors. What gives this piece its force is the sure sense of structure and movement. There is a rich exciting mix and intermingling of colors, yet there remains clarity of arrangement. Two large "X's" dominate the painting "Hidden Grace." In the background are highly gestural strokes and shapes of blues, pinks, whites, and dark reds. Perhaps more than most this is a painting about gesture and movement. It is also about layers wherein darker patches of color are overlaid with increasingly brighter and more vigorous patches of reds and whites. Moreover, there is a balance to the whole, creating a sense of a careful organizational plan.
Taetzsch has spoken about her work almost like a piece of music, as if she were constructing an orchestral movement. She says, "I struggle with the canvas, building it up and breaking it down. Space is there to be enclosed and disclosed; defined and defiled by line; shaped and misshaped by form; made subtle, empty or blatant through color. Form. Line. Color. Some days we dance together, some days we engage in a bloody fistfight."
What is of great interest to me is that, as a viewer, I do not really see this struggle she speaks of so eloquently. I see an artist who has a very masterful control over her works, creating a coherent and forceful expression on canvas. But then perhaps this is the role of the artist, to create order and expression out of a chaotic mixture of color and shape. This is surely the role of the abstract painter, and a role that Taetzsch takes on and handles superbly.
Red City
Wizened