Pendulum 5

Jami Taback

Jami Taback’s style illuminates the thought process of an artist who addresses chaos with elegant restraint, hinting at what could be without delving into the fray. Across mediums and subjects, she layers rough, angular linework and rudimentary shapes against soft texture, building upon an idea - in this case, the passage and meaning of time - within a reactive structure that in its crooked form conveys emotion.

As she states in regards to her Pendulum series, “Here I travel on a voyage to faraway places thinking about the passage of time. The pendulum swings back and forth as if to be thinking through a problem. Perforated pathways record destinations and places of rest with ancient markings.” Indeed, “Pendulum 5" could be a map to an unknown destination.

Jami Taback was born in Queens, New York on December 16, 1953. In the 1960s, she studied at the Paul Margin Painting Studio in Westbury, New York and, in the 1970s, she studied printmaking with Ruth Leaf. Taback learned the techniques of viscosity etching under Krishna Reddy at New York University and later worked at Robert Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop in Manhattan. She continued her education at the Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina where she explored the use of the glass etch process in printmaking under Harvey Littleton. In 1980, she studied the techniques of the Renaissance painters with Mari Klarwein in New York.

Taback is a member of and has exhibited with the California Society of Printmakers and the Sebastopol Center for the Arts and she is active in the California Society of Printmakers. Her work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions and was selected for a Painting Prize at the Arad Biennale 2005 in Romania, and a Strathmore Paper Artists Award.