Collection of New York paintings

Geri Taper (1929–2004)

Geri Taper was a renowned painter and environmental artist who lived and worked in New York City for thirty years. Her work was exhibited in including the Madden Galleries of London, the Palais des Congress in Paris, Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, and exhibitions at the David McKee and A.M. Sachs Galleries in New York City. She also created environmental art for the New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 

Taper's work is also included in a number of art collections and installations including Citibank, Chase Bank, Alcoa Corporation, Alice Tully (Lincoln Center), Agnes Gund (MOMA), The Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, and Mount. Sinai, New York.

APPRAISAL:

“In Geri Taper’s work, I find a kind of mysticism that one experiences when in a state of divine presence.”
– Nassos Daphnis

One sees a dancing red shape on blue, darting to and fro, whipping left and right, with an electric energy. Complexly, the images move not only dimensionally in and out of space, but they also move in time, in linear space, like music or the written word.
A dancer, on looking at the red and blue works, said. "I could dance these paintings."
– Rachel Chodorov / ARTS magazine

The broad, multivalued palette has been reduced to a dichotomy of red and blue and focus has shifted from the shapes themselves to the boundaries between them. These boundaries now appear as elongated red figures dancing on a blue background that contains and delimits their motion. The eye moves from figure to figure, which, because of the red-blue value contrast, appear to vibrate and jump out at the viewer.
– Elizabeth Unger / Press Release / Keen Gallery, New York

Red and Blue  (1979, acrylic on canvas)

Red Sun  (1987, mixed media on canvas)

Bronze (1991, mixed media on canvas)

100 Moon (1996, acrylic on canvas)

Language (1981, acrylic on canvas)

Metal (1985, mixed media on metal)

Enamel (1988, mixed media on enamel)

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