Jungled Love, mixed media and resin on canvas, 12 x 43 inches
Dish Deep Ecstasy, mixed media and resin on canvas, 32 x 50 inches
Red Desert Wave, mixed media and resin on canvas, 34 x 58 inches
3 Days and Nights, mixed media and resin on canvas, (3) 12 x 84 inches
MICHEL TABORI
Born in Paris and raised in New York, Tabori is currently based in Venice California. Tabori’s career spanned two decades in film before moving to still images, where he incorporates his cinematic expertise and visual acuity in his vibrant artworks.Tabori describes his work as “flexible light installations,” meaning that the work has no absolute dimension. The piece is scaled to the context and space in which it is exhibited. The experience is subjective and variable. It involves light and shadow, surface and depth, reflection and refraction. All of Tabori’s works start out as one or more photographs. Each one begins from inspiration, occasioned by nature, by a person, by music. The photographs are then digitized and the images distilled to an elemental, abstract essence. Details are emphasized or obliterated in the process of enlargement. Colors are exaggerated and distorted to better reflect the underlying truth of the experience. The images are next transferred to canvas, where Tabori paints and covers them in a deep glossy resin. The end result of this mixed-media work of photography, digital imaging and painting is visually rich and arresting.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- 2010 Dillon Gallery, Michel Tabori, New York City
- 2009 The Edge Gallery, Three Days and Nights in the Desert, Santa Fe, NM
- 2009 William Turner Gallery, No Time to Pretend, Santa Monica, CA
- 2008 Dillon Gallery, Michel Tabori, New York City
- 2007 William Turner Gallery, New Work II, Santa Monica, CA
- 2006 Berman Turner Projects, New Works, Santa Monica, CA
- 2005 William Turner Gallery, New Work, Santa Monica, CA