Paulette Tavormina
Paulette Tavormina lives and works in New York City. Amidst the bustle that defines the city, she can often be found at one of the city’s many farmers markets searching for the perfectly imperfect flora that characterize her photographs. Her arrangements often recall the sumptuous detail of seventeenth century Old Master still life painters and serve as intensely personal interpretations of timeless, universal stories. With a painterly perspective reminiscent of Francisco de Zurbarán, Adriaen Coorte and Giovanna Garzoni, Tavormina creates worldly still lives.> Read more
Tavormina’s photographs are in museum, corporate and private collections and have been exhibited in Paris, London, Moscow, Lugano, New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Palm Beach, Boston, Palm Desert and San Francisco. Tavormina, photographs works of art for Sotheby’s and works as a commercial photographer. She has collaborated with The Fabulous Beekman Boys on three cookbooks, including the critically acclaimed The Beekman 1802 Heirloom Cookbook and recently photographed The Del Posto Cookbook. She has been commissioned by The New York Times and National Geographic Magazine, among others. Previously, Tavormina was a prop and food stylist in Hollywood, her work seen on the silver screen in films such as Nixon, The Astronaut's Wife and The Perfect Storm.
Her monograph book, Paulette Tavormina: Seizing Beauty published by The Monacelli Press will be out April 2016. Her first solo museum show at The Academy Art Museum in Easton, Maryland is April 23 - July 10, 2016 and at the Snite Museum of Art at Notre Dame University in Notre Dame, Indiana September 8 - November 27, 2016.
Paulette Tavormina, "Oysters", d’après W. C. H., 2010
