Land scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
LandEscape meets
Tanya Ziniewicz
An interview by Katherine Williams , curator and Josh Ryder , curator landescape @ europe . com
Artist Tanya Ziniewicz ' s work a channel of communication between abstraction and reality : while her photography could be considered abstract it is actually completely realistic : encapsulating a careful attention to composition and balance , her works suggest spontaneity and walks the viewers through an unconventional aestetic journey . In her Land series , that we ' ll be discussing in the following pages , Ziniewicz draws us beyond the dichotomy between the visible and the invisible accomplishing the difficult task of providing us with a multilayered experience , in which experience and imagination converge to an unexpected still consistent point of convergence . We are very pleased to introduce our readers to her multifaceted and stimulating artistic production .
Hello Tanya and welcome to LandEscape : before starting to elaborate about your artistic production would you like to tell us something about your background ? You have a solid formal training and after having earned your BFA in Drawing from Cleveland Institute of Art you nurtured your education with MFA in Printmaking , that you received from the Rhode Island School of Design . How do these experiences influenced your evolution as an artist ? And in particular , how does your cultural substratum inform the way you relate yourself to art making and to the aesthetic problem in general ?
During my college education , I began to study examples of everyday ephemera , such as oil stains on concrete , sidewalk cracks , mold spores , frost patterns , or bubble formations in toothpaste spit . I used mark-making in drawing and printmaking to mimic patterns and structures I observed around me . I have always been particularly drawn to Taoistic philosophy and its key notions of being and non-being , coming-to-be and passing away , arrival and departure . This introduced me to the idea of transience – that everything is undergoing subtle and constant transformations .