Painting Memory, Light and Presence
Philadelphia-based painter working at the intersection of abstraction, embodiment, and myth
Artist Statement
My work begins from the idea that inner and outer worlds are structured by the same forces. Weather, light, memory, and emotion behave similarly—they shift, accumulate, and disperse.
I build paintings through layers of gesture, allowing forms to appear gradually rather than be imposed. Figures and environments remain unstable, held in a state of becoming. Light plays a central role—not as illumination, but as an active force that reveals and obscures at once.
I am drawn to transitional states: where clarity slips into ambiguity, where presence is felt but not fixed. The paintings are not about depicting experience, but about creating conditions in which it can be sensed.
Biography
Taya Naumovich is a painter whose work explores gesture as a form of perception. Through layered brushwork and shifting fields of light, she constructs surfaces that register emotional experience as movement rather than image. Her paintings operate between figuration and abstraction, where forms emerge, dissolve, and reconfigure in response to memory, atmosphere, and sensation.
Naumovich has exhibited nationally, including Forbidden Fruit (Piano Craft Gallery, Boston), Cosmologic (Curiouser & Curiouser, Kansas City), Gathered in the Stretching Now (Heaven Gallery, Chicago), and The Collective II (Visionary Projects, New York).
For inquiries please email tayadesign11@gmail.com
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Selected Exhibitions
2026 – Solo Show, The Flickering Tide , Adelphi University, New York, NY
2025 – The Collective II, Visionary Projects, New York, NY
2024 – TROVE, Deanna Evans Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2023 – Did You Too See It, Drifting, All Night, on the Black River, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
2023 – Cosmologic, Curiouser & Curiouser, Kansas City, MO
2021 – Forbidden Fruit, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston, MA
2019 – RUIN, Royal Society of American Art, Brooklyn, NY
For a selection of recent paintings, visit Selected Works
For past group and solo exhibitions, see the Exhibition Archive
To inquire about available works from Cityscape Series, visit Cityscape Series
To inquire about teaching visit Taya's Studio Kids