Bio
“Joan Tausik shows her tender, dream-filled surrealism. Her exotic visions have a nostalgic charm, a sadness, a long and a vague drifting of feeling. Hers is a fine woman’s world....”
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Joan Tausik was an American surrealist artist who lived and worked in New York City. She earned her bachelor's degree from Long Island University and went on to study painting at The Art Student's League, and under Amadeo Ozenfant, George Grosz and Edwin Dickinson. She eventually earned a master's degree in art and deaf education from NYU. Profoundly deaf since infancy, her large-scale oil paintings and drawings of dreamlike landscapes incorporate symbols that draw from her life as a deaf woman. Her work has been exhibited at various galleries in the U.S. and abroad, including Guild Hall and the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
“Her work embraces a wide range of subject matter giving full rein to her rich and fertile imagination. Symbolism and surrealism predominate in a large measure but their meaning is fully realized by virtue of her strong sense of design and accomplished draftsmanship.”
“Your paintings awake a half forgotten world between memory and dreams....”
“These paintings have an inner quality, quite unusual in a young artist. Poetry and sensitivity abound throughout.”