The rivulets of color caught braiding and twisting toward form in Nancy Taplin’s paintings suggest that even the most loosely strung of coalescences yearns toward its like—and with the same energy that binds its own threads into being.
Taplin finds her preoccupation—and its resolution—in the attack and decay of a line. Her occasional opaque forms, if seen vivisected, reveal the same reaching tendrils composing both surfaces and subcutaneous interiors.
Her recent work begins with small linear drawings in graphite or colored pencil, or larger ones on rag paper with paint. She approaches large paintings on linen in much the same way as the drawings on rag paper—moving through the wet surface, drawing into it, letting it dry and working back over it again— letting the brush have its way with the layers of color, bringing different dimensions into the work.
NANCY TAPLIN holds degrees from both the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Rhode Island School of Design, and has received numerous grants, fellowships, and awards for her painting and drawing. She has shown her work widely in solo and group exhibitions at galleries throughout the Northeast.
--R Skogsberg
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