Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Dirt Mama/ African Cape Dog adaptation


This is a small 8" x 10" graphite on paper drawing I finished last week for an auction at the Oakland Art Gallery. It will be up for auction on October 19th,2006 5-8pm! Look at their website for more info. at: www.oaklandartgallery.org.

This drawing is part of a new series of work that I am doing that is about animal life mergeing with plant life. Some day I will provide a better artist's statement to further explain myself.

Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Small furry pig with flora


This is a drawing that I just completed today, 7/11/06. It is about 8.5" x 10". Graphite on paper. I'm moving in a direction, subject wise, where flora and fauna merge. It is having to do with protection, food...etc....

Sunday, July 09, 2006

At the "Happiness for all the artists" show


This a picture of the opening at Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland. There's the sheep sculpture!


There was also the accoridan stylings of Ms. Julie Alvarado, a friend, artist and fellow staff member of mine. She was fabulous!

Thursday, June 29, 2006

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Sheep sculpture 2006










This is my most recent sculpture. It will be in a show at Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland, CA. The show is called: "Happiness for all the artists." The reception is on June 29th, 5pm-8pm. 355 24th Street, Oakland.

The sheep is made of wool, epoxy based clay, wire and plastic. She stands about 26" high and 24" long. I plan to make a series of these sheep. Four more are in the works. I am calling them my "Forest Sheep".

Thursday, January 05, 2006

Drawings on paper


Epiphyte on Ram


Bigger is better


Pet #1


Baby's hungry


Teenage Salty (Portrait)

Sunday, January 01, 2006

More Brackish Ways


A view of the giant drawing in the show. "Saltation". It's about a moment in time when several salties are trying to control three huge dogs that are leaping in the air. The Salties like to breed Whippets. And bigger is better in their minds.


In Brackish Ways I had a diorama set up. It was a glimpse into the Salty way of life. Racing remote control toy cars in a parking lot of the ruins of a strip mall. One of their giant Whippets hangs out in back. It's an evening scene.


A close up of the diorama.


Text from New Langton's web site:

For the Musée d'Honneur Miniscule, Langton's street level exhibition space, Tara Tucker has installed Brackish Ways, a gateway to the realm of the Salties, white animals that are whale-like with tiny hands and broken teeth. Like Haines's dancing dandy, the Salties seem to be in constant pursuit of over-the-top happiness, despite the looming threat of pesky, hungry-looking greyhounds. As alter egos, they have completely abandoned the human form, but retain some touching human characteristics and behaviors. Tucker's is an unnatural-history museum with dioramas of an extinct race, who found joy in the friendships at abandoned parking lots and tried to overthrow the enemies that became too powerful.

James Bewley, Program Director

Brackish Ways- a solo show at New Langton Arts in San Francisco, CA


View of giant drawing: "Saltation", graphite on paper and of "Fly", a Salty sculpture made out of Celuclay and mixed media.


"Crawl", a Salty sculpture made out of Celuclay and mixed media.


A view of Brackish Ways.


"The come hither whale", one of the very first Salty sculptures ever! Made of Celuclay and mixed media, plus a real antique kid's chair.


Another view of the show.

Link to show on New Langton's website