Theresa Tarara
Fine Art Photography
Bio
Born in St. Paul, Minnesota
Home is Scottsdale, Arizona
Theresa Tarara is a fine art photographer living in Scottsdale, Arizona. She studied at The University of Arizona in Tucson AZ majoring in Studio Art with an emphasis in Photography from 1978 to 1980, and graduated Summa Cum Laude with a BFA in Photography at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona in 2002.
To create her photographs she uses an iPhone, Adobe Photoshop Software on a Mac, a digital Pentax KS2, analogue film on a vintage Polaroid Land Camera, 35mm Olympus OM1, an Argus CS3 camera, a medium format Mamiya C330 and various camera less techniques. Her continued focus is to learn more about experimental hand made imagery combined with nineteenth century alternative photo processes.
I take pictures to escape from difficulties of life, to give new meaning to things out of my control. Time is spent thinking about how to make art. I enjoy printmaking with gum bichromate, digital collage, cyanotype and toning, as these give me a stage to play out my dreams. Placing that into a final image to share with others is a challenge as I love the sense of accomplishment seeing the work I have made over the years, learning ways to accept failures and successes. Searching for so long that comfort level (Home) to continue to come back to is how life makes perfect sense finally in the scheme of things.
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Workshops
Filter Photo Festival
2020 Zoom Workshop: Visual Storytelling with Daniel Coburn
Art Intersection Gallery, Gilbert Arizona
2019 Tri Color Gum Printing, Diana Bloomfield
2018 Beyond the Tube: Mixing Color, Andy Burgess
Gum Over Platinum, Diana Bloomfield
2016 Salt Printing, Claire Warden
Tri Color Gum Printing, Diana Bloomfield
2015 Tri Color Gum Printing, Diana Bloomfield
2014 The Ambrotype, Claire Warden
2012 Albumen Printing, Martha Casanave
Van Dyke Printing, Carol Panaro-Smith
2011-13 Seven Week Seminar:Taking Your Work to the Next Level,
Instructors: Carol Panaro-Smith and James Hajicek
Education
2002 BFA Photography, Arizona State University,
Tempe, AZ
1985 BS Computer Science, DeVry Institute of Technology,
Phoenix, AZ
1978-80 University of Arizona, Studied Photography/Studio Art,
Tucson, AZ
Solo Exhibitions
1998 Imaginative Truths, Scottsdale Community College Library
Group Exhibitions
2022 A Murmuration of Artists, Shootapalooza Enlighten,
Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester MA,
Juror: Crista Dix
SE Center for Photography, Botanicals Exhibit, Greenville, SC,
Juror:Wendi Schneider
Arizona Photography Alliance Member Group Exhibition,
Mood Room Phx Gallery,
Artlink AZ, Phoenix AZ
15th International Color Award, Nature, Professional, Nominee
2021 16th Black and White Spider Awards, Professional,
Still Life, Architectural Nominee
New York Photography Awards, Silver Winner,
Fine Art - Nature, 'Butter Moth'
Light Sensitive Exhibit, Art Intersection, Gilbert, AZ,
Juror: Brian Taylor
Visions of Nature,
Contemporary Views in Alternative Photographic Techniques,
Light Art Space Gallery, Silver City, NM,
Juror: Diana Bloomfield
Arizona Photography Alliance Group Show, Mood Room Phx Gallery,
Artlink AZ, Phoenix AZ
No Strangers Member Show, Art Intersection, Gilbert AZ,
Juror: Alan Fitzgerald
Santa Fe Workshops (SFW) Zoom Webinar.
Creativity Continues - Assignment: Altered Images
with Aline Smithson
2020 Arizona Photography Alliance Member Group Exhibition,
Website Gallery
Shemer Art Center, Garden Musings Photography Exhibit,
Phoenix, AZ
Light Sensitive, Art Intersection, Gilbert, AZ
Juror: Brett Abbott
2019 No Strangers Member Show, Art Intersection, Gilbert, AZ
Juror: Alan Fitzgerald
Little by Little, Art Intersection, Gilbert AZ,
Juror: Peter Bugg
Diversity: Alternative Paths in Contemporary Photography,
Shootapalooza,
Wichita Falls Museum of Art MSU, TX
2018 Unique: Alternative Processes 2018, ASmith Gallery, Johnson City, TX,
Juror: Diana Bloomfield
12th International Color Awards, Abstract, Professional, Nominee
13th Black and White Spider Awards, Still Life, Professional, Nominee
2017 11th International Color Awards, Abstract, Professional, Nominee
L.A. Photo Curator, Alternative Techniques in Image-Making,
Curator: Diana Bloomfield
Taking Care, Minneapolis Photo Center, Minneapolis MN,
Jurors: Terry Gydesen, Tom Baker
Process Alternative, Light Leaked,
Jurors: Claire A. Warden, David Emitt Adams
No Strangers Member Show, Art Intersection, Gilbert AZ,
Juror: Alan Fitzgerald
2016 Next Level Art Exhibit, Art Intersection, Gilbert AZ
11th Black and White Spider Awards, Nature, Professional, Nominee
10th International Color Awards, Americana, Professional, Nominee
L.A. Photo Curator, ROOT, Honorable Mention,
Juror: Susan Spiritus
9th International Color Awards, Professional, Still Life,
Honorable Mention, and Nominee
2015 Favorite Photographs of 2015, LENSCRATCH,
Juror: Aline Smithson
Still Life, The Inanimate Subject, Minneapolis Photo Center,
Juror: Russel Joslin
2014 7th Photography's Master Cup, Professional, Fine Art, Nominee
9th Black & White Spider Awards, Professional, Abstract, Nominee
2013 All Art Arizona, Art Intersection, Gilbert AZ,
Jurors: Carol Panaro-Smith, James Hajicek
Backyard, LENSCRATCH, Juror: Aline Smithson
Creatures, Kiernan Gallery, VA, Juror: Anne Berry
Favorite Photographs, LENSCRATCH, Juror: Aline Smithson
5th Photography's Master Cup, Professional, Fine Art,
Nominee
5th Edition, Julia Margaret Cameron Single Image Award,
Fine Art, Nominee
2012 Annual Silent Auction, Art Intersection
Still Life:The Art of Arrangement, Kiernan Gallery, VA,
Juror: Jason Landry
7th Black and White Spider Awards,
Amateur, Still Life, Nominee
Memberships
The Arizona Photography Alliance
ArtIntersection Gallery
Shootapalooza, A Murmuration of Artists
Center for Creative Photography