Edges of Time | Talya Baharal

Opening Reception with the artist Saturday April 13th 4-6pm at Gallery Lulo

The exhibit features a series of new large and small scale paintings inspired by surroundings and events close to Talya's life. The works are abstract compositions in acrylic and mixed media on wood panels in large and small scale. The show will run from Saturday April 13th – June 1st 2024.

"The title speaks to many things (the time I am in on a personal level, the time we are in, the bracketing of chapters, or the sense of a continuum, the chapters in my life as an artist melding together but different…. One voice within the edges of time.."

In Baharal’s previous work as a sculptor and maker of wearable objects, she mainly drew upon the visual language of vulnerability and decay. Much of her attention to shapes of vessels, structures that contain chaos and the mapping of imaginary scapes is carried over in her paintings. Acrylic paint, ink, and other mixed media are her materials of choice. Torn paintings and images of previous sculptures used as collage material activate many of her compositions. A dialog between the paint, ink markings, and the collage create a rich language of layered lines that intersect expanses of paint. The changing character of lines that appear, disappear and re-appear reveal the painting’s “armature” that connects the composition. Baharal’s work is deeply rooted in excavating the personal journey of a painter’s voice unearthing its vocabulary.

Talya Baharal lives and paints in her studio in the Hudson Valley, NY. Born in Tel Aviv, Israel. Raised there and in London, she moved to NYC in 1979. Widely recognized, exhibited, and published as a studio art jeweler and sculptor for over three decades, she is the recipient of an NYFA fellowship, as well as other grants and awards. Baharal was a juror on the NYFA sculpture/craft panel and the curator of a book on contemporary art jewelry. A solo exhibition of her paintings “Raw Ink - Blue Paint” was exhibited at Five Points Art Center Gallery in Torrington, CT in 2021. Shape of A Language, a solo exhibition of her paintings took place in February 2023 at First Street Gallery, Chelsea NYC. “Full Circle” - a solo painting exhibition was shown at Triangle Gallery in Rockland Maine last August. Her paintings were part of several group shows in Chelsea, Connecticut, and the Hudson Valley. Baharal is represented in California by Gallery Lulo in Healdsburg, and Triangle Gallery in Rockland, Maine.