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Tash Loves Trees

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I am very pleased to announce that I have just returned from installing my art exhibition (and sale) at the East Syracuse Free Library (4990 James Street, East Syracuse, New York 13057).

My series of two dozen encaustic trees are here, as well as two dozen heart paintings.  All are encaustic and collage.  Stands are not included in the price of the work.

This show will be on display during May and June 2026.

Current hours of operation:

Monday – Thursday 10:00 am to 8:00 pm
Fridays 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Saturdays 10:00 am – 2:00 pm

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The Rainy Day

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God bless a good rainy day.  An indoor day.

I bought more frames.  I spent the day reworking then framing the encaustic & collage target paintings, the ones that I’d created last year.  They are 5″ x 7″ hardboards mounted on 8″ x 10″ chalkboard.  I will photograph them tomorrow then post the results.

I boxed up (with the boxes from the frames) a bunch of books I’m planning to sell, part of my attempt to purge/de-clutter – I’m in the process of getting rid of things stored in the basement to make room for more art storage.  Eventually, I will sell more art thereby having space to make more (or buy a bigger house).

I also finished my third reread of The Alchemist by Paul Coelho.  I will be writing a book report in a bit – I need the experience to digest.  It felt different this time because I have had more life experiences and am more attuned to esoteric language.

In addition, I’m preparing for the art show at East Syracuse Free Library.  I created the information sheet/price list.  The installation is scheduled for May 1, 2026.  The plan is to show the encaustic trees AND the new encaustic heart paintings.  They will be resting on table easels and displayed at the top of the bookshelves.

Karen Tashkovski, CHERRY, 2026, 6” x 8” encaustic & collage mounted on 11” x 14” chalkboard
Karen Tashkovski, BESTIE, 2026, encaustic & collage, 9” x 12”

What did you do today???

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2026 MINY

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This year’s Made in New York exhibit is currently up and running at the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center.

This year Anita Welych and Jeremy Randall picked the artwork.  Over seventy works were selected from four hundred entries.

*from the Schweinfurth web-site

Jeremy Randall has been working in clay and making decorative and functional pottery for over 20 years. He received his Bachelor’s of Fine Arts from Syracuse University in 2000, and his Masters of Fine Arts in ceramics from the University of Florida in 2005. Currently he lives in Tully, New York, and owns and operates his studio/teaching and retail business Papavero Clay Studio in Marcellus NY. Jeremy’s work can be found in galleries across the US, has shown in numerous national shows, and has had the privilege of teaching workshops across the United States and internationally. In 2017 he began an apprenticeship program in his studio, looking for ways to offer traditional/non-traditional education experiences for emerging artists in a ceramic studio setting.

Serving as the executive director of the Kirkland Art Center in Clinton, NY, Anita Welych is also a practicing visual artist. She received her BFA at Cornell University and completed an MFA at Syracuse University. In between, she pursued graduate coursework in painting and lithography at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá on a Fulbright Grant. She subsequently returned to Colombia on a teaching Fulbright, lecturing across the country.

Welych taught in the Studio Art program at Cazenovia College for over thirty years, developing the major in Arts Management and serving as its director. She served on the Syracuse Public Art Commission for three years and was a founding board member of ArtRage Gallery, both located in Syracuse.

Welych has exhibited nationally and internationally, working in book arts, collage, printmaking, painting, and installation. Her lifelong interest in social and environmental issues drives the content of her art.

I attended the opening art reception on Saturday.  The exhibition continues through May 16, 2026.  The Schweinfurth is located at 205 Genesee St. Auburn, NY 13021.

Featured artists:

Jim Allen

Annalisa Barron

A. Bascove

Jill Bell

Julie Bero-Emerson

Kathleen Bolin

Frid Branham

Phyllis Bryce Ely

Karen Burns

Stephen Carlson

Victoria Connors

Tonia Cowan

Cynthia Cratsley

Margaret Day

Joe Demetro

Jackie Dickinson

Jill Doscher

Henry J. Drexler

Leonard Eichler

John Fitzsimmons

Michael Flanagan

Faithanne Flesher

Diane Foley

Bret Garwood

Siavash Golkar

Julia Graziano

Kristy Guenther

Wenda Habenicht

Chelsea Hagin

Rich Harrington

Barbara Hart

Jill Herlands

David Higgins

Lee Hoag

Lowell Hutcheson

Alex Hutton

Stephen Kankus

Tom Kredo

Susan Larkin

Fannie Lee

Kathy Lewandowski

Chloe Loewenguth

Chris Losee

Kirin Makker

William Mazza

Kyle Mort

Joy Muller-McCoola

Richard Nolan

Maxwell Oglesbee

Sofía Luz Pérez

Paul Pearce

Juan Perdiguero

Judith Plotner

David Porter

Kristin Reagan

John Rodrigues

Judy Rosenberg

Maria Rosenblum

Patricia Russotti

Wendy Saam

Eric Shute

Karen Sienk

James Skvarch

Linda VanArtsdalen

Jessica Warner

Donalee Wesley

Betz White

Spencer Woodcock

Robert Wurster

Walter Zimmerman

 

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Mohawk Valley Angel

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The show is over but I wanted to document it.  Women. Art. Voices. took place for three weeks (March 6 – March 27, 2026) at Mohawk Valley Center for the Arts.

Camaraderie, from my angel series, had a prominent place in the exhibition.  I loved the way it looked.

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Galentines

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Whimsy & Joy is the title of Edgewood Gallery‘s latest art exhibition.  Kathleen Crinnen’s acrylic paintings, Eva Hunter‘s jewelry, accessories and paintings plus Linda Malik’s sculptures comprise this colorful, very feminine show.

The exhibit continues through April 17, 2026.  Edgewood Gallery is located at 216 Tecumseh Road, Syracuse, New York 13224.

Tuesday – Friday: 9:30 am – 6 pm
Saturday: 10 am – 2 pm
Sunday & Monday: closed

I visited Edgewood yesterday to discuss my upcoming show there.  I will be exhibiting in late August through Oct 2, 2026.  No decision yet on what artwork I will be presenting there.

Meanwhile, I will be picking up my painting from Mohawk Valley on Saturday and the Art Haus exhibit has been extended an extra week – pick up date for that show is April 18th.

Next for me – May and June 2026 at the East Syracuse Free Library.

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The Ancient Handbag Mystery

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I’m contemplating what to do next.  The ancient handbag series of paintings are on the floor of my living room resting on their chalkboard mounts, which I have infused with magnetic paint to simulate the electromagnetic resonance of the original objects, as they have been described in my research.

I’m also awaiting a couple of orders of mini dominoes to add to the hardboards.  It is really fun to hunt for specific vintage items and thank you, universe for the interwebs, lol.  What a godsend, really.

I also ordered frames for these paintings, as well as frames for the new heart paintings, some of which are also on the floor and on the dining room table.  I will title them, sign them, get them in the frames and photograph them all by next week.

It is a gloomy day with rain – yesterday it was 70 degrees outside and beautiful.  Tomorrow it is supposedly going down to 32 degrees.  It is a sad day for me for personal reasons and yet, when I focus on this artwork it brings me so much joy and strength, and purpose.

My exhibition of butterfly paintings is still at Art Haus Syracuse.  Selling them will validate me externally, and that is a sliver of an artist’s vocation.  When you believe in yourself then the world will follow suit.  But if people don’t want to share in your artistic vision, you don’t stop breathing.  Buy them here.

 

 

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Soulscape

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This happened today:  the art reception/art opening for Soulscapes at Art Haus Syracuse, 120 Walton Street, Syracuse, NY (in Armory Square).

It was such a lovely experience.  There was food and drink, great conversation and each artist spoke briefly about our respective artworks.

My ten butterfly paintings look amazing flanking the Marc Safran photograph.  I sold two of them during the party.  Art can be puchased on-line here.

Visit the gallery Tuesdays and Wednesdays noon – 7:00 PM, Thursdays and Fridays noon – 8:00 PM, and Saturdays noon – 6:00 PM.  Check the gallery’s Facebook page for any changes to these hours.

from the Art Haus web-site –

⭐️art haus SYR is proud to announce the opening of SOULSCAPES, a dynamic group exhibition featuring four local artists whose work explores the diverse textures of identity and the environment. The exhibition will run from 2/28 through 4/11, with a public opening reception Saturday 2/28, 2-4pm.

Soulscapes brings together an eclectic mix of mediums—from global photography to surrealist painting—to create a dialogue between the internal psyche and the external world.

The Featured Artists

* CJ Hodge lll: Presents a collection of surreal mixed-media portraits and bold abstract paintings that challenge traditional boundaries of form and color.

* Marc Safran: Showcases global portrait photography that highlights the profound beauty of human rituals, cultural traditions, and the dignity of everyday individual life.

* Karen Tashkovski: Offers a delicate and textured series of mixed-media butterfly paintings, symbolizing transformation and fragile beauty.

* Meghan Murphy: Explores the extremes of scale and subject matter, featuring a series of tiny landscape watercolors paired with a collection of outlandish looking portraits.

„This exhibition is a celebration of the unconventional,“ says Marianna Ranieri-Schwarzer Curator at art haus SYR. „By pairing the grounded, global reality of Marc Safran’s photography with the surreal and outlandish visions of Hodge and Murphy, we invite the viewer to see the ‚soul‘ in all its forms—the beautiful, the traditional, and the delightfully strange.“

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Professional Artist @ Work

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Karen Tashkovski, “ CAMARADERIE “, 2017, 11” x 14”, encaustic & collage

Penny came by today to collect my painting, CAMARADERIE.  She’s going to deliver it for me.  The new art exhibition at Mohawk Valley Center for the Arts, Women. Art. Voices., begins next week with a reception on March 6th, 2026 from 5:00 – 7:00 PM.  The show runs through March 28th.

Karen Tashkovski, SCHMETTERLING, 2024, encaustic & collage on gesso board, 8″ x 8″
Karen Tashkovski, PEPERUTKA, 2024, encaustic & collage on gesso board, 8″ x 8″
Karen Tashkovski, PILI PALA, 2024, encaustic & collage on gesso board, 8″ x 8″

On Friday, I dropped off my butterfly paintings for the exhibition at Art Haus Syracuse.  The show starts on Saturday, February 28th, 2026, which is also the date of the art reception – February 28, 2026 from 2:00 – 4:00 PM.  That show ends on April 4th.

So, I have two art shows in March.  I will have a solo show at East Syracuse Free Library during May and June 2026.  I’ll be displaying my new encaustic trees series at that show.

Today I started working on another set of encaustic heart paintings.  I created a new heart stencil.  They are 5″ x 7″ and I am planning to mount them onto 8″ x 10″ chalkboard.

What you are seeing here – not done!  No – this is just first passes of color plus the colorful rice papers and origami papers.

What I’m loving right now is how they are both familiar and fresh/new.  I have enough colors to fill five pancake griddles.  When I first started with encaustics, I only had one griddle!  The devices I add to my paintings has also expanded so this series is different, challenging and so fun!  I love making them and I love love. <3

Karen Tashkovski, PAPILLON, 2024, encaustic & collage on gesso board, 8″ x 8″
Karen Tashkovski, FARFALLA, 2024, encaustic & collage on gesso board, 8″ x 8″
Karen Tashkovski, BUTTERFLY, 2024, encaustic & collage on gesso board, 8″ x 8″
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Angel News Flash

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Karen Tashkovski, “ CAMARADERIE “, 2017, 11” x 14”, encaustic & collage

Camaraderie, one of the paintings in my “Futura” series from 2017 and newly framed, will be on display in the upcoming exhibition at Mohawk Valley Center for the Arts, 410 Canal Place, Little Falls, New York 13365.

The exhibition is titled Women. Art. Voices.

It is scheduled for March 6, 2026 – March 27, 2026 with an opening reception on March 6, 2026 from 5:00 – 7:00 PM.

Hours (of operation)

Thursday – Saturday: 12 pm – 4 pm
Sunday – Wednesday: Closed
Holidays: Closed

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Belonging

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What was once the Point of Contact Gallery is now the Warehouse Gallery (350 West Fayette Street, Syracuse, New York).  Last night I attended the art reception for Ecosystem Of Belonging: 2026 faculty survey, an art show celebrating the work of current Syracuse University faculty of the College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Artists included in this show:

Adrienne Dagg, Assistant Professor of Painting, Studio Arts, School of Art

Jiangliu Dong, Instructor, Studio Art, School of Art

Meris Drew, Assistant Professor, Painting, Studio Arts, School of Art

Tamika Galanis, Assistant Professor, Film, Department of Film and Media Studies

Li “Lily” Jiang, Assistant Professor, Fashion, the School of Design

Quran Karriem, Assistant Professor, Communications and Rhetorical Studies, Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies

Yves Michel, Professor of Practice, Industrial and Interaction Design, School of Design

Meri Page, Associate Professor,Communication Design, School of Design

Austin Riddle, Instructor, Studio Arts, School of Art

Rochele Royster, Assistant Professor,Art Therapy, Department of Creative Arts Therapy

The Exhibition runs through March 5, 2026.

Gallery hours:

Tuesday-Wednesday noon – 6:00 PM

Thursday noon- 8:00 PM

Friday – Saturday noon – 4:00 PM

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