Bridgeport Art Center is located in Bridgeport in Chicago. That's where Tamara's studio is located and that's where she spends most of her time nowadays, painting. She is happy to be a part of this community of over 60 artists and designers. This is an inspiring place.

Kimberly Oliva is the owner of Oliva Gallery in Logan Square. The gallery has been around for 6 years. Kimberly is a supportive and helpful gallery owner that tries to promote artists she works with. Tamara has worked with Oliva Gallery since 2019. She had a solo exhibition there in May 2019, and she was one of the artists Oliva Gallery represented during SOFA CHICAGO in 2019. Tamara's next solo exhibition at the gallery is scheduled for spring 2023.

Eat Paint Studio is located at 5036 N Lincoln Ave in the Lincoln Avenue North Arts District (LANA). Chicago artist Emily Rapport opened the gallery in 2018 with an aim toward combining her studio practice with a public exhibit space. The gallery mission is to engage people in the art-making process and, through exhibitions in its storefront gallery, to integrate art into daily lived experience.
Tamara participated in the 3-person "THIRST" at Eat Paint in November 2019.

Thirst Exhibition

One of Tamara's biggest influences and heroes, brilliant, funny, and wise, is her brother Michael Wasserman. Check him out!

"One day I'll fly away"
24" x 18"
Acrylic on canvas
2021

This is an abstract painting that the artist started at a live painting session at a jazz concert at Fulton Street Collective in Chicago. The spiral shapes and the long diagonal lines are interpretation of the dynamic energy of the music that was performed.
This painting was donated and sold during the Lurie Chidren's Hospital Snow Ball fundraiser in January 2021.

This is a short clip of me using Sumi ink and brushes for "How Many Rivers Run to the Sea " project.
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MUSICIANS
I listened to these two play in Capetown, South Africa, in 2015. They were happy to let me record them playing music on that sunny afternoon. One of the musician is from a local tribe, the other is Romanian and he is wearing a traditional african robe. My recent painting, CAPETOWN DREAMING is based on this clip and a few still photos I took of this park THE COMPANY'S GARDENS during that early November trip. The painting belongs to my CONTEMPORARY RITUALS series.
http://paperboatart.com/artwork/43927...

I talked to Spike Rebel about my artistic process in January 2017. That was the time when Spike just arrived to the Bridgeport Art Center, and that's when he started making short documentaries about his new artist-neigbors and the building itself. This is a lovely little piece. Enjoy!

Elephant Room is a wonderful small gallery in Chicago's South Loop. Kimberly Atwood is a co-owner and the director of the gallery. In January 2017 I participated in the "Blues" exhibition at the gallery. My painting BLUES PARK is available for purchase on the gallery's website as well as on this site.