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Talmadge Doyle — printmaking, etching

In the “Far Away” exhibit (July 2010) Tallmadge Doyle exhibits work from her Celestial Menagerie Series: “Constellations are an invention of the human imagination. They are an expression of a desire to order the chaos of the night sky. For farmers who wanted an agricultural calendar, for shepherds who needed a nightly clock, for navigators and explorers dividing the sky into recognizable groupings, constellations were a practical necessity.
The constellations figures are symbolic, celestial allegories in which humans can honor and recognize sacred animals, deities, and moral tales. Throughout the centuries artists have depicted these groupings of stars. The images of these groupings and creatures have been created and recreated with various similarities and differences. Much artistic license is taken in this body of work. They are not all accurate in terms of their star’s mathematical proportions and distances but they do carry on an age old tradition of storytelling that started with the Babylonians and Sumerians, passed on to the Egyptians and later to the Greeks and Romans”.

Tallmadge Doyle, born in New York City currently resides in Eugene Oregon where she has lived and worked since 1989. She received her BFA in drawing from the Cleveland Art Institute and her MFA Printmaking from the University of Oregon where she has taught Printmaking as an Adjunct Professor since 1997.

Doyle has exhibited in The Arts Center as part of a group exhibit on printmaking in the 1990’s, with an extensive lecture series about the print making practices of all participants. She was also in the 1999 Willamette Valley Juried Exhibition, the 2000 “Significant Landscapes” exhibit curated by Sandy Brooke and the 2009 Around Oregon Annual, juried by Beverly Soasey.

Her work is included in numerous public and private collections including the Portland Art Museum’s Gordon Gilkey Print Collection, the Oregon State University Art Abut Agriculture Collection, the City of Seattle Portable Works Collection, and the Cleveland Art Association Collection.

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