With a masterful eye for color, weight and form, Teresa Swayne creates abstract monoprints that speak with excitement and eloquent grace. Teresa Swayne's folding screen,"Manuscript," was recently featured in the Harwood Museum's exhibition, The Harwood Collects: Recent Acquisitions.
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Teresa Swayne
Studio: 623 Don Nicolas Road, Taos, NM 87571
505-737-0102
Born: 1945, New York, New York
Home: Taos, New Mexico since 1972
Media; paintings, prints, furniture, multimedia
Education:
St. Lawrence University; Universite de Rouen; Denver University BA History 1966; University of New Mexico - course work in education, painting, drawing, printmaking
Selected Galleries
2006 Oeno Gallery, Prince Edward, Ontario
2003-2004 The Parks Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2003-2005 Shidoni Arts, Tesuque, NM
2000-2002 La Mesa, Santa Fe, NM
2000-present The Parks Gallery, Taos, NM
1994-1997 Beyond Horizons, Scottsdale, AZ
1993-1997 Forebears, Telluride, CO
1994-1997 La Mesa, Santa Fe, NM
1992-1997 Mesa Arts, Franklin MI
1991-1997 Lo Fino, Taos
1990-1991 BA Gallery
1988-1989 Magic Mountain Gallery
1986-1988 E.S. Lawrence Gallery
1984-1991 Taos Connection, Denver, Colorado
Exhibitions:
"Teresa Swayne: Taos Light," Taos Connection, Denver, 1985
"Taos Seven," Taos Connection 1987
"Taos Landscape," Taos Connection 1988
"Taos Seasons," Fuller Lodge, Los Alamos, 1988
"Taos Seven," Laurel Seth Gallery, Santa Fe, 1991
Stables Fall Arts - Juried show, Stables Art Center, Taos, 1982 , 1986
Taos invites Taos, Fall Arts Celebration, Taos, 1988, 1989, 1990
"Abydos" furniture show, Mesa Arts, Franklin, MI, 1994, 1996
"Mixed Metaphors," Parks Gallery, Taos, 2000
"Three Friends," Parks Gallery, Taos, 2001
"Screens and Scrolls," Parks Gallery, Taos, 2002
"Taos Art Today," Foothills Art Center, Golden, CO, 2002
ACT with Art," Bareiss Gallery, Taos, NM 2003
"By Design," Shidoni Arts, Tesuque, NM 2003
Teresa Swayne: Solar Plate Etchings," Parks Gallery, Taos 2003
"More Screens and Scrolls," Parks Gallery, Taos, 2006
Collections: Harwood Museum, Taos, NM 2003
Publications:
Rio Grande High Style, by Elmo Baca, Gibbs Smith, Layton UT
New Mexico Magazine, "Taos Seven" 1986
Taos Magazine, 1986, 2001, 2002
Taos News, May 2000, July 2001, March 2002, October 2003