Ira Tattelman
“My multi-disciplinary practice is a dialogue with and reinterpretation of the environs we inhabit. I observe, respond to, and interpret the built surroundings. My practice makes physical and emotional connections to the constructed environments in which I live and travel. Since the physical world is constantly changing, I call attention to the planned and unplanned outcomes of human actions.”
Up in the Air Full and Detail, 2024
Mixed media including metal stand, rope, bead, coil
13" x 65"x 11" (sits on floor)
$750 - Purchase here
Found Plastic Top, 2023
Water color on vellum; found plastic top
13” x 10”
$600 - Purchase here
Coral Remains Full and Detail, 2023
Mixed media including headboard, fabric covered frame, buttons, decorative beads, glue, hardware
52” x 48” x 4” (Wall Hung)
$750 - Purchase here
Found String, 2023
Water color on vellum; found string
11” x 9”
$600 - Purchase here
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From the Artist
I am a multi-disciplinary artist living and working in Washington, DC. I created FOUND for Earth Day, an annual community project funded by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, which brings temporary, community-made, found-object sculptures to Tanner Park in Eckington, DC. Recent exhibitions include outdoor sculptures at Sandy Spring Museum and Oxon Hill Manor in Maryland, environment design for the 18th Annual Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival, a large scale installation at the Athenaeum, Alexandria VA, and solo print, photography, and video exhibitions including 'The Dilemma of Alien Archaeology', Stone Tower Gallery, Glen Echo, MD, 'Surf–an exchange about climate change', Open Gallery, Montgomery College, Silver Spring, MD and 'Space Around Us', Photoworks, Glen Echo, MD. My Washington, DC Art All Night public participatory installations include 'Found Sculptures', 'Twister', and 'Hedge' for Shaw Main Streets; 'Messenger', for North Capitol Main Streets; and 'Night Angel', for DSLBD.
Recent residencies include Emily Harvey Foundation Residency Program in Venice, Italy, Arctic Circle Expeditionary Residency, Svalbard, Norway, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL, Brashnar Creative Project, Skopje, North Macedonia, and DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Sister Cities Grants, Rome, Italy.
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Instagram: @tattelman