Gallery Ehva ~ Contemporary and Early Provincetown Art: Tasha Depp

I am a painter, making painterly paintings, but with a concern for the connection of painting to the real world. For example, can painting make a piece of trash beautiful enough to hang on the gallery wall? Are some pieces of trash beautiful on their own? And likewise, is a detailed painting of underbrush a "throw-away" view or can it be as interesting and compelling as the distant vista with mountain and sky? So my painting practice asks questions....

My paintings are representational. They are detailed elaborations of architectural incidents as they occur in nature; overlapping tree branches, overgrown undergrowth, and networked branches, interlaced grasses.

I am currently exploring painting on non-traditional surfaces such as cast off fiberglass, metal, plastic. Afterall, these surfaces are not bio-degradable, perhaps that makes them archival?

-- Tasha Depp

Gallery Ehva, Tasha Depp, Detritus #6 oil on linen

Tasha Depp, Detritus #6, 9 x 12, oil on linen, 2007

Tasha Depp

Tasha Depp, Trashflower - Morning Glory Platter, 15 x 15, oil on disposable serving tray

Tasha Depp

Tasha Depp, Trashflower #17, 19 x 10, oil on cardboard toy packaging

Tasha Depp

Tasha Depp, Autumn Underbrush, 16 x 20, oil on linen

Tasha attended Cooper Union Art School in NYC when she was 18, and then lived and worked in the city for the next 20 years. She and her family moved to Catskill, NY, 7 years ago.

She is a painter who teaches graphics, drawing, and painting in the Catskill area. Additionally, she homeschools her children and cultivates a massive vegetable garden.

Tasha Depp resume (pdf document)