Tara Turski

Artist Statement

As children we are told what to do and given vague answers about the truth of reality. Therefore when reality actually invades a child’s universe, there is a slight hesitation and fear that engulfs the child. I personally took that fear that I felt and internalized it for a number of years. I refused to show any weakness or display any pain that I felt from my mother’s death. Instead I became an impassive eleven years old, whose only concern was for that of her brother and sister.

Now as a young adult, and an artist, I look back and examine that fear and pain that I felt, not only examining it but also accepting it and allowing myself to release it. From this self-exploration I have created the series entitled “ Distant Realities”.

The series consist of imaginative realities of a child’s psyche. The spaces are quiet with a subtle feeling of loneness and emptiness. They represent the place of escape from the real world reality of hurt, anger and pain that I felt from the loss of my mother.

Tara Turski    Biography

  Tara Turski was born in August 1984 in Toledo, Ohio. She is currently enrolled at the University of Toledo in the BFA program studying New Media. Turski first became interested in the arts in high school when she was a photographer on her high school yearbook staff. Since then she has been working photographically and more recently has began to explore more interactive and mixed media too. She has exhibited her work in both national and international juried exhibitions nation wide and has won an honorable mention and jury’s awards for her work too.