After a job of almost two-decades at the New York design firm, Smart Design (famous for Oxo Good Grips kitchen gadgets), Tamara immersed herself in her art work full time in 1999. She has a BFA (1976 Syracuse University) and an MFA (1980 Virginia Commonwealth University), both as a painting major, and her recent large-scale interiors and landscape watercolor paintings reflect a return to this first proclivity as an artist--painting. In the last decade, participation in open studios through artist organizations in Brooklyn provided exposure for her work to enthusiastic local audiences. Recent group exhibitions in 2010 (Nurtureart, Brooklyn Navy Yard Arts) and activity on sites like 20x200.com, as well as inquiries about work on her website have generated positive feedback and new collectors.
Tamara lives the Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. Her studio is at the nearby Brooklyn Navy Yard. She was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota in 1953.
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