Barbara Zaring
Taos, NM
Movement
Acrylic and Oil on Canvas
30” x 30” x 2”
2023
$2400
About
Barbara Zaring is a painter/printmaker who has been living and working in Taos, New Mexico, for 50 years. She has been included in seventeen museum exhibits and is published in more than a dozen books. Zaring has been in over twenty solo or two-person shows and over thirty group shows. Honors include representing the United States in the Art in the Embassies Program in Zagreb, Croatia, and as Artist-in-Residence at Yosemite National Park, California. Her work has been on the program covers of some of the finest classical music festivals in the United States. Zaring attended the Semester on Contemporary Art, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey, Pratt Printmaking Institute, New York City, the University of New Mexico, Taos, New Mexico, and graduated from DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, with a degree in Art. She was born in Ohio and has been an artist all her life.
Artist Statement
Accidental is my motto. I don’t know how the painting will turn out; if I do, the painting is lost. My recent work begins with an elaborate acrylic painting over which I use oils to manipulate the surface creating an image of beauty and confusion. Using poured paint, and invented tools, I present a fusion of fifty years of work. It is abstract, brightly-colored, emotional, watery, often pockmarked and agitated. Both one’s mind and the earth are in a constant state of building up and eroding, layering and revealing. Mimicking the process of nature—dripping, pouring, wearing away, sanding, splattering, I am concerned with the degradation of our earth. I am also concerned with making the paint do something and of making something out of nothing. I want people to see in a different way. My work is ugly but beautiful at the same time.
Portfolio
Representation
Palette Contemporary
Art and Craft
Albuquerque, NM
Art from Barbara Zaring in other TAAC exhibitions