Holden Luntz Gallery - 23.04.2024

Paulette Tavormina: Breathing Life into Stillness

The still-life photographs of Paulette Tavormina are anything but still; on the contrary, they are full of life. Recalling sumptuous details of seventeenth-century Old Master painters such as Francisco de Zurbarán, Adriaen Coorte, Juan Sánchez Cotán, and Giovanna Garzoni, Tavormina’s painterly compositions serve as intensely personal interpretations of timeless, universal stories and themes of of life and love, of joy and sorrow. Having previously worked in Hollywood movie sets as a prop specialist, Paulette Tavormina has been creating still life compositions from early on in her career. Her interest in photography developed later in her life, when she learned how to develop film and attended photographic workshops on black and white studio photography while living in Santa Fe in the late 80s.