A Little Bit About the Artist…
New York City-based artist Paulette Tavormina can often be found at one of the city’s many farmers markets searching for the perfect produce and flora that characterize her photographs. Her arrangements often recall the sumptuous detail of seventeenth century Old Master still life paintings. With a painterly perspective reminiscent of Francisco de Zurbaran, Adrigen Coorte and Giovanna Garzoni, Tavormina’s still lives reveal captivating detail and beauty, and serve as a reminder of the fragility of life.
Tavormina’s photographs are in museum, corporate and private collections. Her works have been exhibited in Paris, London, Moscow, Lugano, New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Palm Beach, Boston and Chicago. Tavormina, who is largely self-taught, currently works as a commercial photographer. She has collaborated with The Fabulous Beekman Boys on three cookbooks, including the critically acclaimed The Beekman 1802 Heirloom Cookbook. Previously, Tavormina was a prop and food stylist in Hollywood, her work displayed on the silver screen in films such as Nixon and The Perfect Storm.
{Aren’t these floral prints just breathtakingly beautiful? If you really look carefully at each one, you can see little butterflies, insects, lady bugs, sea shells, caterpillars, and even crabs. At first glance, they almost all look the same, but when you take a closer look, her composition is so very different in each. The black backdrop makes the flowers and critters POP but also reveals that old world style drollgirl mentions above, but with a fresh and modern twist… I could get lost staring right into each for hours, and I just might. ~ Maegan}
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