| These new canvasses will soon be visible on this art website, and even sooner, by request, the artist can send photos via e-mail to you. It becomes increasingly apparent that the deep, solid years of laying in the Old Masters Foundation, still adds a solid stature to the totally new, bright, light, airy, modern art works, ("Flowers and Bow Ties" being the first to move in this direction) especially to the major new developing 4' x 6' canvas of "Suzanne."
American Figurative 2002
(New York School)
Having made a lifetime of studying Old Master techniques ( 6.5 years at the Art Students' League, NY), Taney has studied under Masters of the New York School - a certain technique and use of light, color, including William Draper, Frank Mason, Sidney and Edwin Dickinson. Taney also studied architecture, interior design at the NY School of Interior Design, and fashion design, textile design at the Fashion Institute of Technology in NY, NY. Taney has traveled, and studied in Europe and Mexico, having lived and painted in an artists' colony, in Puerto D'Aindraitch, Majorca, Spain.
Taney opened her first studio in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1971 with a group of NY artists, with five portrait commissions. She has painted oil portraits on commission in Boston, New York, Florida, Washington, DC., (one portrait remaining unfinished in a Chateau in SW France). Upon moving the studio to Staten Island, NY, Taney participated in the group show of Staten Island Artists at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY, NY and at the Staten Island Museum
After
relocating to Sarasota, Florida, in 1974, Taney became "artist-in-residence"
in the Education Department at the Ringling Museum of Art, where they have
a superb Renaissance art collection, taking art workshops to juvenile detention
homes and schools all over the State of Florida. Some of MBT's best
oil portraits have been painted on commission in Sarasota, Florida.
She relocated her Studio to Congress Street, Boston in 1979 and became
a member of the Fort Point Artists, pioneering that area as new for artists
at that time. Having returned to New York in the late 1980's, Taney
continued to periodically return to Sarasota, Florida where she has been
reviewed by a well-known Miami art critic in Sarasota in early 1990's,
describing her warehouse studio in NY as shaking every time a train would
go by. She participated in a major show in the NY PLEIADES
GALLERY in February of 1999, then beginning the process of becoming a member
of the PLEIADES, one of NY's oldest and most respected artists' co-op galleries.
"Press of Politics"
57" x 59" plus frame (available by appointment) has been reviewed in Florida
by a prominent Miami art critic. It was started in 1989 following
a seminar at NYU Law School given by Mark Green, advocate, and Gabe Pressman,
TV journalist about the undo influence the Press has been having during
the 20th Century on U.S. Supreme Court decisions. At the same time,
the controversial Judge Borke nomination and hearings were taking place
in Washington, D.C., hence the canvass came into being. (Taney is descended
from Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney of U.S. Supreme Court under Andrew
Jackson, Abe Lincoln.) There is a small study done in preparation
for the larger work, in a private Washington, D.C. collection.
Each canvass in the PLEIADES Show represented a "set" or "art project"
in Taney's studio, some art projects or series of works such as "Symphony
in White 1996-1998" 52" x 62", plus 4 other smaller works, take place
over a period of two to four years.
Upon going to
Boston, to study with the great Maestro of Lebanon, Saliba Devihes (in
Guggenheim and M.O.M.A.), who works in Encaustic and has completed many
stained glass works for Moravian churches all over the U.S. Taney took
a Boston studio on Congress Street, where Taney started a corporation creating
out of the studio TV commercials, media ad campaigns, media plans, and
painted portraits.
Taney has traveled
and painted in England and France, recently becoming focused on an old
chateau "Mount Felix" in St. Jean, France, near Tours, France. Hence
the new and current art project "Chateau series" which got underway in
1999, has been very successful, wherein every French scene painted is immediately
sold on the INTERNET Art Website. Upon viewing a painting that
a person falls in love with on the INTERNET, Taney welcomes a client to
come and visit the Fall River Historic Highlands where she maintains her
current studio in a 100 year old church, and likes to cook delicious gourmet
French food, showing them the art works, or take them for delicious Portuguese
food nearby the Studio. All canvasses painted of the area in and
around the Villages of St. Jean/St. Germains, SW France" sell almost immediately
after completion. There are not many, and each painting takes a long
time to complete, often full of history and color. This project,
plus a new project entitled "The Circus Through the Eyes of a New York
Painter 2003" plus a continuation of the dancer series, will culminate
in a One Person Show by 2003, possibly at the Broome Street Gallery, or
at PLEIADES, will gradually appear on the Art Website.
Taney returned
to New York after Europe in 1993 to a studio at 316 Lexington Avenue, and
painted there a full length portrait "Madam X" and an ongoing series of
scenes of New York City in blizzards, and all weather. (Taney has
been invited to be published in the annual NY "Who's Who in New York",
and has currently been accepted into membership at the Artists' Equity
Union. Taney is a life member of the Art Students' League of NY,
and an honorary associate member of the Baltimore Maritime Museum.
In 1995 Taney moved to "Studio 3A" in Yonkers wherein "Symphony in White"
took place over a period of two years. It is a set of five canvasses.
Central Park & 60th street appear behind the model, a man talks on
a cell phone.
Taney studied under Edward
Laning - N.Y. muralist, for years studied the works of John Singer Sergeant,
and more recently focused on the Rembrandt School, but wants total originality
in the current work, to show more COLOR BRILLIANCY, TRANSPARENCIES, (with
the Old Masters Technique of sepia underpainting still showing through
the final work) INTEGRITY, NOBILITY OF CHARACTER, AND DEPTH OF PERCEPTION.
Taney says that it is very surprising that so many people who have studied
art at great length and have all kinds of degrees actually know so little
about how to paint - in the serious techniques one sees at the museums
in paintings completed during the 1400's, 1500's, 1600's in Italy, Spain,
Amsterdam. Most current artists are not painting at all with brush
on canvass - and are doing "shock value" art statements. It
takes years of painstaking hard work, traveling, and studying - to learn
to paint in the Old Masters' techniques - and then to maintain an active,
current, on-going studio - is no mean feat!! Not only does one have to
gain the traditional background and lay the "groundwork", but then,
one has to discover all by one's self - one's own technique - or "style"
TOTALLY NEW AND DIFFERENT, OFFERING TOTALLY NEW, DIFFERENT MATERIAL AND
COMPOSITIONS, PRODUCING HONEST WORK THAT DEMONSTRATES INTEGRITY -
"I RECORD THE WORLD AROUND ME ON THE WALLS OF MY CAVE! "
The 52" x 62"
plus frame "Martha Graham Dance Troupe Rehearsal "Song" is most recent
larger work of 1/99. It demonstrates Graham's focus on the hands
and feet, and her wonderful simplicity, abstraction of form and movement.
Taney tries to convey Graham's taste for the abstract and a certain formality,
without the intimacy that she did not like in the photographs of Imogen
Cunningham.
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