Paulette Tavormina
Paulette Tavormina, Botanical VI, Juliet Roses
Paulette Tavormina Botanicals VI

Paulette Tavormina
Botanical VI, Juliet Roses
Archival Pigment Photograph, Mounted on Black Sintra
Executed in 2013
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered (edition of 5) on label on mount's verso.
36 x 36 inches

Paulette Tavormina Figs, After G.F.
Paulette Tavormina Figs, After G.F.

Paulette Tavormina
Figs, After G.F.
2009
Archival Pigment Photograph, Mounted on Black Sintra
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered 5/5 on label on mount's verso.
48 x 32  inches

Paulette Tavormina Zebra Finches And Tulips
Paulette Tavormina Apples And Peas
Paulette Tavormina Banquet
Paulette Tavormina Basket Of Fruit
Paulette Tavormina Blackberries and Butterfly, After A.C.
Paulette Tavormina Blackberries And Butterfly, After A.C.

Paulette Tavormina
Blackberries and Butterfly, After A.C.
2015
Archival Pigment Photograph, Mounted on Black Sintra
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered 1/7 on label on mount's verso.
22 1/2 x 30 inches

Paulette Tavormina Blueberries and Apricots, After G.G.
Paulette Tavormina Blueberries And Apricots, After G.G.

Paulette Tavormina
Blueberries and Apricots, After G.G.
2013
Archival Pigment Photograph, Mounted on Black Sintra
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered 2/7 on label on mount's verso.
24 x 24 inches

Paulette Tavormina, Botanical III, Bleeding Hearts and Magnolias
Paulette Tavormina Botanicals III

Paulette Tavormina
Botanical III, Bleeding Hearts and Magnolias
Archival Pigment Photograph, Mounted on Black Sintra
Executed in 2013
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered (edition of 5) on label on mount's verso.
36 x 36 inches

Paulette Tavormina, Botanical IV, Water Lilies and Poppies
Paulette Tavormina Botanicals IV

Paulette Tavormina
Botanical IV, Water Lilies and Poppies
Archival Pigment Photograph, Mounted on Black Sintra
Executed in 2013
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered (edition of 5) on label on mount's verso.
36 x 36 inches

Paulette Tavormina, Botanical V, Peonies and Wisteria
Paulette Tavormina Botanicals V

Paulette Tavormina
Botanical V, Peonies and Wisteria
Archival Pigment Photograph, Mounted on Black Sintra
Executed in 2013
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered 5/5 on label on mount's verso.
36 x 36 inches

Paulette Tavormina, Botanical VII, Tulips
Paulette Tavormina Botanicals VII

Paulette Tavormina
Botanical VII, Tulips
Archival Pigment Photograph, Mounted on Black Sintra
Executed in 2013
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered (edition of 5) on label on mount's verso.
36 x 36 inches

Paulette Tavormina Expectations
Paulette Tavormina Expectations

Paulette Tavormina
Expectations
2017
Archival Pigment Photograph on Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper
Signed, titled, dated and numbered 1/5 on label verso.
36 x 48 inches

Paulette Tavormina Flowers And Butterfly

Paulette Tavormina
Flowers and Butterfly, After G.V.S.
Archival Pigment Photograph, Mounted on Black Sintra Executed in 2012
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered (edition of 7) on label on mount's verso.
24 x 24 inches

Paulette Tavormina Flowers And Fish

Paulette Tavormina
Flowers and Fish II, After G.V.S.
Archival Pigment Photograph, Mounted on Black Sintra Executed in 2012
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered (edition of 7) on label on mount's verso.
24 x 24 inches

Paulette Tavormina Fruit & Roses, After I.S.
Paulette Tavormina Fruit & Roses, After I.S.

Paulette Tavormina
Fruit & Roses, After I.S.
2009, Printed 2009
Archival Pigment Photograph
Signed, titled dated and editioned on verso.
20 x 30 inches

Paulette Tavormina, Orchard Pears
Paulette Tavormina Orchard Pears

Paulette Tavormina
Orchard Pears
Archival Pigment Photograph, Mounted on Black Sintra
Executed in 2016
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered (edition of 7) on label on mount's verso.
24 x 24 inches

Paulette Tavormina, Pears
Paulette Tavormina Pears

Paulette Tavormina
Pears
Archival Pigment Photograph, Mounted on Black Sintra
Executed in 2008
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered (edition of 15) on label on mount's verso.
16 x 20 inches

Paulette Tavormina, Plums and Chinese Walnuts, After G.G.
Paulette Tavormina Plums And Chinese Walnuts, After G.G.

Paulette Tavormina
Plums and Chinese Walnuts, After G.G.
Archival Pigment Photograph, Mounted on Black Sintra
Executed in 2013
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered (edition of 7)on label on mount's verso.
24 x 24 inches

Paulette Tavormina, Watermelon Radishes
Paulette Tavormina Watermelon Radishes

Paulette Tavormina
Watermelon Radishes
Archival Pigment Photograph, Mounted on Black Sintra
Executed in 2009
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered (edition of 15) on label on mount's verso.
16 x 20 inches

Paulette Tavormina, Yellow Cherries and Crab Apples, After G.G.
Paulette Tavormina Yellow Cherries Crab Apple

Paulette Tavormina
Yellow Cherries and Crab Apples, After G.G.
Archival Pigment Photograph, Mounted on Black Sintra
Executed in 2011
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered (edition of 15) on label on mount's verso.
16 x 20 inches

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PAULETTE TAVORMINA

Paulette Tavormina lives and works in New York City. Amidst the bustle that defines the city, she can often be found at one of its many farmers markets searching for the perfectly imperfect flora that characterize her photographs. Her arrangements often recall the sumptuous detail of seventeenth century Old Master still life painters and serve as intensely personal interpretations of timeless, universal stories. With a painterly perspective reminiscent of Francisco de Zurbaran, Adriaen Coorte and Giovanna Garzoni, Tavormina creates worldly still lifes.

Paulette Tavormina was born in 1949 in Rockville Centre, New York. She is largely a self-taught photographer well known for her work creating painterly still life photographs. Tavormina’s initial interest in the medium stemmed her time in the 1980s working on corporate advertising campaigns researching, creating, and styling props for photographs. Becoming intrigued by the medium, she enrolled in courses at the International Center for Photography in New York in 1986. Then moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico, she took classes in photography to perfect her photographic and printing techniques. Combining her passion for the culinary arts with the photographic medium, Tavormina would become a commercial photographer and food stylist shooting countless cooking books while also becoming a prop specialist creating elaborate food scenes for such movies as “The Astronaut’s Wife,” “Nixon,” and “The Perfect Storm.”

Involved earlier in her life in the 1980s with Sotheby’s, Tavormina returned to the auction house as a photographer for the company after a period exploring her ancestral roots in Sicily. By 2008, Tavormina had perfected her lighting and composition for Natura Mora and it was first exhibited at Sotheby’s. Since then, Tavormina’s quick rise has resulted in her photographs in museum, corporate, and private collections and have been exhibited in Paris, London, Moscow, Lugano, New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Boston, and Chicago. In November 2010, Tavormina was awarded the Grand Prix of the Festival International de la Photographie Culinaire, a juried photography competition held annually in Paris, France.

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