TANEYA LOVELACE

Untitled (2025)

Mixed media on paper,15 x 25.5 in.

Framed

Courtesy Creativity Explored (San Francisco, CA)

Taneya Lovelace creates dramatic abstract mixed media works, layering rich colors and organic forms to build complex compositions with much visual movement. Lovelace is a determined and focused artist while at practice, painting in meditative stints, usually color by color. Lovelace’s expansive abstractions can sometimes be interpreted as landscapes composed of basic painterly forms – circles, dots and marks.

Occasionally, Lovelace will use an ink wash over large portions of her work, obscuring even more layers of marks and washes underneath. Lovelace’s practice of layering The building of colors and interplay between complex layers of marks and soothing pools of color, becomes more evident as the viewer settles into the work. Lovelace has taken this process a step further, by layering arrays pages from books and magazines into her work.

Several of Lovelace’s more recent large-scale works are prominently displayed in the lobby of Avalon at Mission Bay, a San Francisco residential development. For Creativity Explored's highly acclaimed 2015 exhibition, Super Contemporary, she collaborated with Alicia McCarthy, prominent member of San Francisco's Mission School.

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  • Creativity Explored was founded in San Francisco in 1983 by Florence and Elias Katz, an artist and a psychologist. Sparked by the nationwide deinstitutionalization of disabled people, the duo launched a movement that expanded defined notions of artistry when they founded three Bay Area organizations – Creativity Explored, Creative Growth, and NIAD (Nurturing Independence through Artistic Development).

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