John Tarahteeff’s paintings show great range, technical skill and seamless blending of intelligence and aesthetics. These new paintings have a story to tell, exposing in a spontaneous moment the whole of the tale. The work speaks in the deeply personal language of the artist.  The statements about being a young adolescent, is frank, galvanizing and sometimes disturbing. He lets us ponder our own frivolous life of growing up through those unsettled youthful years. At times he lets us laugh at our own ridiculous ways of spent youth. His perspective prompts us to recognize the fallibility, frailty and innocent mistakes made in childhood.  The title of the show Idylls & Exiles declares the following: "Childhood myth creates these Idylls where tainted children live as Exiles."  A forty-one-page catalogue that documenting the direction of John Tarahteeff with this body of work was published by the gallery in Fall of '98 and is now completely sold out. 

Waiting in an Unfinished Place Acrylic on Canvas, 1999    46" x 38"	Playing in the Yard Acrylic on Canvas, 1999 48" x 53"	Eve Rebelling Against Her Own Free Will Acrylic on Canvas, 1999 32" x 28"
The Preserve Acrylic on Canvas, 1999 60" x 54"	Twilight Acrylic on Canvas, 1999 44¼" x 29"	The Lagoon Acrylic on Canvas, 1998 26" x 26"
Models in the Studio Acrylic on Canvas, 1998 43" x 41"	The Bathers Acrylic on Canvas, 1998 30" x 30"	The Exchange Acrylic on Canvas, 1998 35" x 40"
The Transfiguration Acrylic on Canvas, 1999 44" x 51¾"	After Sunday School Acrylic on Canvas, 1998 36" x 54"	The Awakening Acrylic on Canvas, 1998 35" x 51"
The Babymakers Acrylic on Canvas, 1999 50" x 72"

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