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Unnatural Selections: The Artwork of Tiffany Bozic
One of the most talented artists of hers or any other generation, Tiffany Bozic combines a deep love of nature and the diversity of life with a self-taught technical prowess that is unmatched.
While she paints almost exclusively on wood, building up thin washes of paint layer by layer, her work almost appears subtractive as if she is removing the veils that conceal the inner workings, exposing the raw and the intimate. Her long anticipated follow up to Drawn by Instinct, Unnatural Selections chronicles the period from the birth of her daughter in 2012 to the present, exploring new themes such as reproduction, growth and parenthood alongside her ongoing search for universal commonalities between human beings and other living organisms.
Along the way, entirely new species emerge from the tip of her brush to inhabit a world with others no less strange for their evolutionary path to existence. Prepare to be amazed anew at the work of this extremely gifted artist as she explores the animals inside all of us. Unnatural Selections also comes with a print to be framed.
While she paints almost exclusively on wood, building up thin washes of paint layer by layer, her work almost appears subtractive as if she is removing the veils that conceal the inner workings, exposing the raw and the intimate. Her long anticipated follow up to Drawn by Instinct, Unnatural Selections chronicles the period from the birth of her daughter in 2012 to the present, exploring new themes such as reproduction, growth and parenthood alongside her ongoing search for universal commonalities between human beings and other living organisms.
Along the way, entirely new species emerge from the tip of her brush to inhabit a world with others no less strange for their evolutionary path to existence. Prepare to be amazed anew at the work of this extremely gifted artist as she explores the animals inside all of us. Unnatural Selections also comes with a print to be framed.
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178 pages, Hardcover
Published February 28, 2019
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July 25, 2024
This was a book that was passed onto me by another for I have not heard up until now the name of Tiffany Bozic. As a result I must say that I was rather intrigued to learn about some of her pieces.
The start of Unnatural Selections is a Foreward by Mary Ellen Hannibal, which can be basically read as an artist analysis. She not only explains her trip and getting lost to meet the artist for breakfast as well as her family but then tackles the elements that she finds within each piece that makes the artist stand oout. As a result the former page is dedicated to various miniatures of Tiffany's works so the reader can get a general idea on what entries are being named while then dealing with the summaries.
From there is included a dedication from the artist to her daughter before she then also goes into a Behind-the-Scenes Look at a series of pieces that was touched upon by the former write and also touching on another piece as well. As a result the reader will be provided with information on the title, its meaning and sacred geometry element if you would before going into a detailed summary. This preview also touches on the elements, it touches upon goals, nature, animal behaviors, species as well as their scientific names, etc.
Unfortunately none of this consideration was taken for any of her other included pieces, which in a sense is a bit disappointing. Even if she chose that wasn't the way she wanted the book to be shown as, I would have hoped that there could have been an index at the back of the book with the name of the species included for the pieces (although I know in some cases that would have been a lot) since as was suggested by both written pieces at the start of the book, the included species was just as important to the message of the piece as was the piece itself.
Anyway after these two analysises, the reader is provided with the plates that make up Tiffany's works. Each piece is captioned with its title, the year of its composition, the means of its composition and also the size of the piece.
The presentation of the plates are either where a similar group of paintings shares the same spread with the captions at the bottom of each piece, a two-page spread for one work with only the caption on one page while the piece takes up the whole other page and in some few examples a close-up two-page spread of a previous piece thus allowing readers to see the details of the chosen work.
The elements from nature are very realistic while the artist doesn't keep with any particular color palette with some pieces being much more a light pastel, some a darker palette and others bright but somewhere in between. And the maple wood that she so loves to incorporate in the majority of her pieces adds such a wonderful complement to most of these works.
This book does end with a poem that is rather graphic in its portrayal of crimes against animals while I don't think younger readers may enjoy it, especially those that may be more sensitive to such nightmarish, graphic suggestions. Otherwise the poem does bring some awareness to those topics that may have been implied at in some of Tiffany's pieces.
All in all there were some really decent pieces that I found I really did enjoy, some pieces I wasn't so much a fan of and some that did provide some room for discussion until my husband fell asleep on me.
The start of Unnatural Selections is a Foreward by Mary Ellen Hannibal, which can be basically read as an artist analysis. She not only explains her trip and getting lost to meet the artist for breakfast as well as her family but then tackles the elements that she finds within each piece that makes the artist stand oout. As a result the former page is dedicated to various miniatures of Tiffany's works so the reader can get a general idea on what entries are being named while then dealing with the summaries.
From there is included a dedication from the artist to her daughter before she then also goes into a Behind-the-Scenes Look at a series of pieces that was touched upon by the former write and also touching on another piece as well. As a result the reader will be provided with information on the title, its meaning and sacred geometry element if you would before going into a detailed summary. This preview also touches on the elements, it touches upon goals, nature, animal behaviors, species as well as their scientific names, etc.
Unfortunately none of this consideration was taken for any of her other included pieces, which in a sense is a bit disappointing. Even if she chose that wasn't the way she wanted the book to be shown as, I would have hoped that there could have been an index at the back of the book with the name of the species included for the pieces (although I know in some cases that would have been a lot) since as was suggested by both written pieces at the start of the book, the included species was just as important to the message of the piece as was the piece itself.
Anyway after these two analysises, the reader is provided with the plates that make up Tiffany's works. Each piece is captioned with its title, the year of its composition, the means of its composition and also the size of the piece.
The presentation of the plates are either where a similar group of paintings shares the same spread with the captions at the bottom of each piece, a two-page spread for one work with only the caption on one page while the piece takes up the whole other page and in some few examples a close-up two-page spread of a previous piece thus allowing readers to see the details of the chosen work.
The elements from nature are very realistic while the artist doesn't keep with any particular color palette with some pieces being much more a light pastel, some a darker palette and others bright but somewhere in between. And the maple wood that she so loves to incorporate in the majority of her pieces adds such a wonderful complement to most of these works.
This book does end with a poem that is rather graphic in its portrayal of crimes against animals while I don't think younger readers may enjoy it, especially those that may be more sensitive to such nightmarish, graphic suggestions. Otherwise the poem does bring some awareness to those topics that may have been implied at in some of Tiffany's pieces.
All in all there were some really decent pieces that I found I really did enjoy, some pieces I wasn't so much a fan of and some that did provide some room for discussion until my husband fell asleep on me.
May 27, 2019
These paintings are so arresting and beautiful. Her work is inspiring. The composition and color effects make want to paint.
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