Sculpture
I Miss Places That Never Existed
The work itself, fluid in it's form, is the text’s prolificacy as a social and emotional litany. In this large-scale installation, the aphorism asserts itself in the medium of signage and the intangible and ephemeral qualities of light. My six-word... More
Painting
Obvious Prophecies (Portrait of the Artist After Synagoga)
My work is centred around themes of nostalgia, longing, and unlocking myself from a particular moment in time. I erase myself from a specific moment by locating my image in a lost representation between classical and romantic movements. With... More
Painting
Patron Saint of Myself (Portrait of the Artist After Fra FIlippo Lippi)
Nine of the ten performances for my portraits worked from live sittings in Florence, between August 2018 and April 2019. Before each sitting, I would visit the Uffizi, to draw inspiration in tone and expression from a classically-charged painting.... More
Painting
Portrait of the Artist as the Painter
To engage in play with the popular image of 'the artist,' which looks nothing like my studio practice, I dressed and posed in the image of the 'great' painter. Painted in duality with another portrait of the same size, teasing through the the... More
Painting
Portrait of the Artist Without the Artist
The tenth portrait in the collection, and the only portrait for which I did not sit. I asked my painter to paint me from memory, to paint me through his eye. To fully submit a manifestation of myself to someone else's conception of my likeness and... More
Performance
The Roses In My Closet: Readings
Readings of the book are approximately one hour and fifteen minutes. Performances were open for the the public. While four performances were scheduled, only two were able to be fulfilled before beginning sheltering-in-place; performed on March 13th... More
Essay
The Roses In My Closet: Unfictions by Tamar Bresge
A collection of creative nonfiction essays, teasing though the experience of commissioning ten oil portraits, my relationships to my portraits, and my relationship with my painter. Written between October 2018 and March 2020. Performed in the... More
Installation