Tara is a fiber and textile artist who creates sculptures and paintings using hand woven fiber and hand mixed dye. Her current work explores the technique of double-width weaving and creating mirror images. Past bodies of work have explored motherhood, becoming a mother and the resulting body image. Fiber is an excellent way to convey tension or slack in reference to the body even emotion. She often deconstructs common weaving patterns to add texture to paintings, while using double weave techniques to enhance sculptures.

Tara is driven by process. The methodical, labor intensive act of setting up her loom is what draws her to do it again and again. It requires a great deal of planning, attention and time. There is a cascading effect to the choices made. While things can be fixed, it is difficult to right a wrong dye color or threading sequences when already mid-weave and she enjoys the challenge of fixing or accepting the mistake. This is the exploration of and beauty of making something hand made. Although there are many techniques that go into her work, she primarily combines weaving and dyeing to create art. Dyeing is akin to watercolor painting, that blends chemistry and a little bit of voodoo, while weaving gives the opportunity to have a tactile relationship with her craft.

Tara has a BSE in Mechanical Engineering and a BA in Industrial Design from the University of Michigan. In her last semester of study, she took a fibers course on a whim and immediately fell in love with it, setting her on her textile arts path. She currently lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband, two children, and two diametrically opposed cats.