Monday, November 13th, 2023
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Tasha Depp
Tasha Depp received her BFA from Cooper Union and an MFA from Rutgers University.
She embarked on a lifetime of reconciling her commitment to political and conceptual concerns to her innate painter’s sensibility. She currently lives, works, and exhibits in the Hudson Valley, in addition to sharing a digital sketchbook called Suburban Scrawl via social media.
She teaches drawing to incarcerated students and also makes live event paintings at weddings and special events. Her paintings and mixed media work express the anxiety of a culture awaiting rapture in a collapsing landscape while eating slow food in the fast lane.
https://www.instagram.com/tashadepp/
https://www.woodstockguild.org/exhibitions/tasha-depp-shifting-grounds/
Interviewer: Douglas Sheer
Doug Sheer is the only child of two painters who were WPA artists, Artist Union members and Hans Hofmann students in NYC and Provincetown and he grew up in New York's Greenwich Village. He was educated in NYC including Rhodes School where Pop artist Jim Dine was his art teacher and at Rhode Island School of Design.
A painter, he was a pioneering video artist who ran the Egg Store video facility in Tribeca in the 1970s and served fellow video artists including Nam-June Paik, Charlotte Moorman,Twyla Tharp, Bill Viola, Merce Cunningham, Carolee Schneemann and Yoko Ono. Some of his recent paintings can be seen at www.douglasisheer.com and background on his art life and the history of Artists Talk on Art can be viewed on the Woodstock Library YouTube channel in a talk delivered on October 29th, 2022. Just visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXisevryJgQ to watch it.
In 1974 he was a co-founder of Artists Talk on Art, www.atoanyc.org the art world's preeminent forum which has featured 8,500 artists in over 1,000 recorded panels and dialogues. He was board chairman and became chairman emeritus in 2019. He currently serves as its president. The ATOA archive resides at Archives of American Art of the Smithsonian Institution of which Sheer was archivist. https://www.aaa.si.edu/search/collections?edan_q=ATOA
He has shown his abstract paintings widely. He has served as a board member of the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild and currently serves on its exhibition committee. He is also a member of the education committee of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz. He created and ran the Byrdcliffe Forum during the pandemic period and was the producer of its Zoom programs including its ten part "Woodstock Masters" series events (found on the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild channel on YouTube) and curated an exhibit of those artists called "Sense of Place" in August and September of 2022.
