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ABOUT ARTIST - Tamara Tsurkan


2008
	January, 2008 Full Gallery Exhibition at Nilda Chocolates - 2611 E. Johnson St., Madison, WI
	January - February, 2008 Full Gallery Exhibition at The Social Justice Center., 1202 Williamson St. Madison, WI
	January - November, 2008 Indigo Coffee and Tea Café and Gallery Verona, WI
	March, 2008 Full Gallery Exhibition at Ward-Brodt Music Piano Galleryz - 2200 West Beltline Hwy
	April-May, 2008 Whole Foods Market at 3313 University Avenue Madison, WI
	April-May, 2008 Full Gallery Exhibition at Bartell Theatre 113 E. Mifflin Street Madison, WI
	May 3, 2008 Madison Audubon Art Fair at Olbrich Botanical Gardens, 3300 Atwood Avenue 9:30 am - 4:30 pm Madison, WI
	June, 2008 >> Full Gallery Exhibition (Dairy Month in Wisconsin, FOLK ART) at Ward-Brodt Music Piano Gallery - 2200 West Beltline Hwy Christmas pieces for December 2008
	June, 2008 >> Ancora Café, Monroe St, Madison, WI
	September , 2008 >> Ancora Café, King St, Madison, WI
	September - October, 2008 >> Overture Center, State Street, Madison, WI
	September - October, 2008 >> Overture Center, State Street, Madison, WI
	October , 2008 Open Art Studio! Madison, WI
	October, 2008 Full Gallery Exhibition E5/2 Main Entrance Gallery (UW Hospital building), 600 Highland Ave Madison, WI
	November, 2008 (10am-4pm) Oak Park Holiday Fair, Oak Park, IL

2007
	November 4, 2007 (10am-4pm) Oak Park Holiday Fair, Oak Park, IL
	November -December, 2007 Indigo Coffee and Tea Café and Gallery Verona, WI
	November - December, 2007 Bramble Patch, New Glarus, WI
	October - December, 2007 Indigo Coffee and Gallery 300 South Main Street at Verona, WI
	October 6 & 7, 2007 >> Open Art Studio! Madison, WI >>
	October 2007 >> Full Gallery Exibition at Health Sciences Learning Center (UW Hospital) Madison, WI >>
	September 24 - October12, 2007 >> Overture Center, State Street, Madison, WI >>
	August 24 - September 29, 2007 WRAP Pyle Center, Madison, Wi
	June 2007 >> HOME PARADE. Madison, WI >>
	May 23 - May 26, 2007 Main Lounge University of Wisconsin Memorial Union, 800 Langdon Street, Madison, Wi
	May 2007 Exhibition at 556 East Main Street , Stoughton, WI
	January 2007 >> Full Gallery Exhibitionat Froth House 11 N. Allen Street, Madison, WI >>

2006
	9, 10 Dec. 2006 Open Studio: Christmas Paintings! + FAIRY and more!
	December 2006 Holiday Bazaar, Streamwood, IL
	November 2006 The Wisconsin Regional Art Program, Platteville, WI
	9, 10 Dec. 2006 Open Studio: Christmas Paintings! + FAIRY and more!
	November 2006 16th Harvest of the Hands Art and Craft Fair Naperville, IL
	October 2006 My works will be displayed at the Overture Center on State Street, Madison, WI.
	September 2006 Full Gallery Exhibition at Nilda Chocolates 2611 E. Johnson St., Madison, WI
	June 2006 Several of my paintings were on display at Parade of Homes 2006.
	April 2006 Voting Results Announced for two Shows.

Artist Statement >>

It is all about ART, it is all about passion and emotions!

I started painting when I was a child and I really enjoyed doing it. I attended an Art School in Ukraine between 1987 and 1989. For the last 8 years I worked as a freelance web and graphics designer (Please visit my site at www.SilwikDesign.com to see my work or if you need any help with website design or graphics design). But painting remained my hobby since childhood, and about a three years ago I decided to dedicate most of my free time to it. In the last year I have taken classes in acrylic and oil painting at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and watercolor classes at Madison Area Technical College (MATC). My web design work and my paintings are related in the sense that they let me use my imagination to create something new and unique, but I think that with a brush I can do more from my heart.

In 2006 I have exhibited my work in Madison, Platteville, West Bend, WI, participated in several competition shows at EBSQ where some of my works got Patrons' Choice and Patrons' Mention awards .In 2006 one of my paintings received a State Exhibit Award (WI Regional Art Program from University of Wisconsin-Madison).

I have also been selling my works online, and now have my works represented in several states throughout the US (WI, WA, CA, CT, TN, TX, PA, IA, CO, NY, PA, MA, MO, MI, OR, AR, ..) as well as in Canada, France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine.

In my works I seek to find unifying themes in diversity of colors in the same way as I strive to find unifying principles in the diversity of life. You can do many good different things and still be the same person. Similarly, a variety of colors can make a good painting. I believe it is essential to come up with new ideas each time, I think it helps me grow.

Also I like to create dolls - small sculptures from polymer clay. I like my fairies and goblins, they are like a part of a fairy tale world for me.

Photography is another favorite area of mine. Please take a look at my works here.

I think my web design and my painting are related, but with a brush I can do more from my heart and more with my feeling about nature and imagination.

I hope you like my FOLK ART and ABSTRACT works. I paint because I love to paint.I like it soooo much! There are two things that I love most in the world - children and animals. They are very frank and open-minded, and that's what I love most in them. And animals can't talk so the only way they express themselves is through emotions! I am very emotional person myself and I like to be able to understand emotions of animals from the expression of their faces (and tails :)).

I am a member of:

Wisconsin Regional Arts Association

ADSG Art Doll Sculpture Group