From Tara Geer’s artist statement:

The more I look around me, or into the drawing, the more it opens up, as if under a magnifying lens– there is stillness, razored cracks of light, thick, tangling blackness. The world is strange and beautiful and so full of life. I’m not sure what I am drawing anymore.  But I have the feeling I can’t draw fast enough to get it all down. The drawing takes over, pulls, with wide hands, me in, like a commanding dance partner, and I cannot claim to really be in control of them.  I just follow.  I don’t seem to be drawing the outside world then, but nor do I feel like I’m making it up– it’s as if I’m drawing something just beyond the surface of the page. 

enclosure, 2013
Charcoal, pastel, pencil, chalk
22 x 30 inches

Tara Geer is a drawer.  She has a BA and MFA from Columbia University.  Her drawings are in the collections of the Morgan Museum, the Parrish Museum and the Harlem Children’s Art Fund. She’s had solo shows in LA and in NY, and exhibited at Jason McCoy, Tibor de Nagy, Glenn Horowitz, Steven Harvey, Aran Cravey, Flowers, the Four Seasons, and The Drawing Center registry among others. There are 2 books about her work; Carrying Silence: The Drawings of Tara Geer; and New York Studio Conversations. She has been teaching drawing for 3 decades–recently to poets at the Homeschool, doctors at Yale Humanities in Medicine, and at Teachers College, Columbia University.  She is a co-principal investigator on the neuroscience collaboration, Harnessing the Power of Drawing for the Enhancement of Learning funded by the National Science Foundation. She received the Loius Sudler Prize and the Joan Sovern prize. Her website is tarageer.com.