Local Art Seen: Tara Austin @ the Joseph Nease Gallery's "A Warm Reset"

I first saw Tara Lynn Austin's work at a Duluth Art Institute show in My 2018, the year she finished her MFA at Madison. The show, Boreal Ornament, featured wonderfully intricate imagery and memorably vivid patterns and designs. 

Having grown up in Grand Marais, it's not surprising she did her undergraduate studies at UMD where she discovered Professor Ryuta Nakajima, who amplified her interest in the intersection between science and art. "I became interested in Victorian botanical illustrations while I was at UMD, especially those of Ernst Haeckel, and I spent a lot of time in the greenhouse," she said of that time. "I started reading about the mathematics found in nature, like golden spiral, Fibonacci sequence, and fractals."

A year ago, Austin was slated to be a featured artist at the Joseph Nease Gallery here in Duluth. Unfortunately, the pandemic and subsequent lockdown closed the doors at JNG until this past weekend when their new show launched titled A Warm Reset. Tara Austin is one of the artists who has work on display this spring through June 26. 

The more you engage, the more you see... much like life itself.

Tara Austin, Liz James and Tim White will be featured April 10 at a JNG artists talk. The JNG is located at 23 West 1st Street here in Duluth.

To learn more about exhibitions, represented artists and gallery hours

visit the Joseph Nease Gallery website at

http://www.josephneasegallery.com/