Biography
Taya Naumovich is a painter based in Philadelphia. Her work explores the space between figuration and abstraction through layered oil paintings that shift between atmosphere, gesture, and recognition. She has exhibited nationally, including at Piano Craft Gallery in Boston, Curiouser & Curiouser in Kansas City, Heaven Gallery in Chicago, and Visionary Projects in New York.
Artist Statement
My paintings begin with the idea that image, memory, and sensation are unstable and continually in motion. Working in oil, I build surfaces through layers of gesture, color, and revision, allowing figures, animals, and atmospheric forms to emerge and recede over time.
I am interested in transitional states: the moment when an image becomes visible, then slips back into ambiguity. Rather than resolving into fixed scenes, the paintings remain open, holding tension between presence and disappearance. My work is less about depicting experience than creating a space in which it can be felt.