Tara Geer received her M.F.A. from Columbia University School of the Arts where she received the Joan Sovern Prize, & the Loius Sudler Prize, and a B.A. from Columbia University with a double major in Art History and Visual Arts. She is an artist who works exclusively on paper and creates large abstract drawings based on the close observation of insignificant details from her surroundings--a fold in a bag, a tar stain on the roof. Her compositions balance intricate tangles of lines, scrawls, and smudges, with empty areas of white paper. Mixing media such as charcoal, chalk, and pastel, she gives her drawings a broad range of tonal values and rich sense of texture.
Discipline:
Visual Art – painting
Tara Geer
Discipline:
Visual Art – painting
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2002, 2003
More:
tarageer.com
Studios
Firth
Tara Geer worked in the Firth studio.
Originally a working barn perched atop the namesake hill of Hillcrest Farm, this building was converted to serve the arts in 1956. A grand set of windows was installed to make the large interior suitable for visual artists, bringing in abundant natural light from the north. The addition of a screened porch and accessible entrance ramp…