My name is Trica Anne Zeyher. My signature is TAZ. I am an
artist and specifically a painter. I always loved gaining the experience of
seeing life as though it has never been looked at before and seeing it for the
exact being of itself and also seeing it for its best aspects.
I officially fell in love with art, when I found out that it
was something that was just happening. I was using my sight to see the good in
the world during a time that I could not express myself. I didn’t go out and
use my confusion in a negative way. I found a way to make the best out of how I
was given life.
The childhood challenge that changed my view of life
occurred at my family dinner table. I was sitting at the dinner table and
although I knew my father was sitting on the other side of the table, and his
head was tilted low and he was sitting in a wheel chair with an oxygen tank, I
would be alright. He could not even speak; it was past the point that most
people give up. He stayed strong until the smile he held somehow on his
deathbed.
This was the start of my understanding that there is more to
express than can be said. I was eleven. I held secrets of pain that I thought
no one could understand. But people do not have to understand. They need only
know, and by knowing, you become that much closer to everyone around you.
Knowing what and how a person’s mind is interpreting from their world, is like
walking in their shoes, but instead seeing through their eyes for a movement of
time in their life.
The first thesis I had done was in high school, my senior
year. I had the help of Todd Poteet from
the Mill Street Loft. My thesis was
“Experiencing the Death of my Father: Past, Present, and Future.” I created a series
of 12 pieces within 12 weeks. One of the
pieces is now in the “Osofsky Art Collection,” due to winning their Senior Art
Competition at the Stissing Mountain School.
My current work is based on being in the moment. I had
previously based my thesis for painting three class at SUNY Potsdam on the
images of reflection and shadows with out having an actual object in the piece.
After Painting three at SUNY Potsdam outside of school, I
have created a series that is also based on this thesis of the abstraction of
reflection and shadows, but is also based on the idea that there is more than
one way to view art. I created this idea out of the use of black light paint
within the image as well as mixed media. When viewing the art within daylight
it is entirely different than when seen under a black light.
I am looking to take the knowledge I have learned from that
thesis and expand it to that of being able to take what is there both through
reflections and shadows and be able to cover half of the image over to create a
very understandable image of a known object. This would mean that not only is
it able to be two images, but also interactive with the audience. They would
need to open the piece up by themselves to see the other image. This is my third
thesis in my life, that is in progress today.
Education:
Seymour Smith Elementary in Pine Plains NY
Indian Mountain School in Lakeville CT.
Mill Street Loft in Poughkeepsie NY.
Summer Institute for the Gifted (SIG)
Stissing Mountain Middle/ High School Pine Plains NY
Chinese Exchange Program through Sitting Mountain
Rhinebeck Dance center
People to People Student Ambassador
New Hampshire Institute of Art
SUNY Dutchess
SUNY Potsdam (Current School of Education for a Studio art
Major and Minor in Art Therapy)
Work experience:
Dashing Star Farm
Standfordville Recreation (lifeguard and WSI)
Mashomack Polo Club (Lifeguard)
Hotchkiss School in Lakeville CT. (Lifeguard)
Shepard’s Park Lake George (Lifeguard and WSI)
MapleBrook School in Amenia NY (Lifeguard)
SUNY Potsdam Center for Lifelong Education and Recreation:
Lifeguard and WSI
SUNY Potsdam Computer and Technology Services
Internship and volunteer work:
Norman Rockwell Museum: Stephanie Plunkett
(email: SPlunkett@nrm.org)
Sunday School Assistant St. Bernard’s Church
in Sharon CT.
People to People Student Ambassador (Nature Clean up in
Germany)
Art Exhibitions:
Teen Vision at Vassar College in 2011
The Summer Intensive at Mill Street Loft.
Dutchess County Fair Art Competitions
Stissing Mountain Senior Art Exhibition.
MapleBrook School Outside Art Exhibition
Christiana Will’s Museum Studies project: Black Light Series
SUNY Potsdam Art Attack
Online Art sites:
