Tatana Kellner
Tatana Kellner is a visual artist whose work is rooted in social issues. She has been exhibited in numerous venues across the USA, Canada, and Europe and has had over 50 solo exhibitions. Her practice encompasses artists’ books, printmaking, papermaking, drawing, photography, and installation.
Tatana’s work has been featured at the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Fort Collins, Co, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, and Center for Photography at Woodstock, Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA, Creative Concepts in Beacon, NY, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY, and District Fine Arts Gallery, Washington, DC, among others.
In 2008, she received the Puffin Foundation Grant, and in 2005, the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant. Tatana is also the recipient of two New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships, two Photographer’s Fund Award from the Center for Photography at Woodstock, and a Ruth Chenven Foundation Grant. In 2021, she was inducted into the Hall of Champions, North American Hand Papermakers. She has been awarded residencies at The MacDowell (three times), Yaddo, Banff Centre for the Arts, Lightwork, Visual Studies Workshop, Saltonstall Foundation, Millay Arts, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Artpark, Blue Mountain Center, Jentel, Foundación Valparaiso, and Ragdale Foundation.
Kellner is a co-founder and past artistic director of Women’s Studio Workshop. Her work encompasses printmaking, photography, and installation. She is the author of 22 artists’ books and half of the collaborative team KaKeArt.
She was born in the Czech Republic and immigrated to the USA in 1969.
Website
http://www.tatanakellner.com/au•gust art festival project
Tatana Kellner is creating an installation inspired by the Golden Rule, the single greatest, simplest, and most important moral axiom humanity has ever invented, one which reappears in the writings of almost every culture and religion throughout history. Using the text of the Golden Rule from 13 major religions and cultures, these dictums will come alive in white sand on the Wallkill Valley Rail Trail. Throughout the day(s), as the trail is walked or biked upon, the text will slowly disperse, eventually disappearing, only to re-emerge in a different location on the trail the next day. With this work, Tatana hopes to inspire the passers-by to wonder and reflect on compassion and consider its place in our daily lives. This action will also serve as a metaphor for the unending quest to practice what we preach. It will remind us that the road we have to travel to reach this moral dictum is never ending.
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