The Tanster

The Tanster

The Tanster
Known for Pop-Up Street art
Movement Public Art
Website thetanster.com

The Tanster is a street artist in the Hamptons on the East End of Long Island in New York State.[1] She began installing public art works in the community in the late Summer of 2014.[2] Each piece of work that is displayed is uploaded onto the @gemeinschaftprojekt Instagram site.[3] Her project was named as one the top 10 artistic events in 2014 by the cultural magazine Dan's Papers.[4]

The Tanster has partnered with a local charity, the Coalition For Women's Cancers at Southampton Hospital.[5]

Each piece of pop up art that The Tanster installs includes donation information for the Coalition. People are encouraged to take the art when they find it. On the back of is a request for donations and a guide on how people can help.[6]

Dan Rattiner has cited The Tanster's public art project as a continuation of the rich, innovative, vibrant, creative traditions of the community as defined by the works of William Merritt Chase, Roy Lichtenstein, Thomas Moran, Willem de Kooning, Larry Rivers, Fairfield Porter and Jackson Pollock.[7]

The Tanster has received corporate sponsorships for her project. These include contributions from Home Depot, Rust-Oleum and Meineke.[8]


Biography

The Tanster was born in Southampton Hospital in Southampton, NY and attended Southampton High School. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Stony Brook University and has a Master's degree in video production from the New York Institute of Technology. For a year she lived in Paris, France, studying art history at the Sorbonne. Her photographs have been published in magazines all over the world and she is currently managed by Getty Images. She began installing pop up public art in the Hamptons in August 2014.[9]

Technique

The primary style of The Tanster public art installations involves repurposed yard signs spray painted in rainbow palettes. Oftentimes the pieces include original stencils. The yard signs which serve as her canvases are typically plastic rectangles. The Tanster creates her works in a gallery in Water Mill, New York and then places them out in the public, either mounted on metal frames or stapled with wire to posts.

Podcast Media

In February of 2016, The Tanster was interviewed on iHeart Radio's Savvy Central channel by Christina Nitschmann. During the interview, The Tanster discussed a variety of topics, including both the origins of her charity rainbow street art project and how she became interested in the Emperor Napoleon. The interview can be heard on YouTube.

Also in 2016, The Tanster began her own regular podcast called "Tanster Talks." The episodes can be found through a link under the "Podcast" heading on her home page.

External links

References

  1. ↑ "Street Art". Painting the Hamptons. Gail Gallagher. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
  2. ↑ O'Reilly, Brendan (2 October 2014). "Another Guerilla Artist Posts Art Across The Hamptons" (10.2.14). Dan's Papers.
  3. ↑ "Gemeinschaftprojekt". Instagram.
  4. ↑ Peterson, Oliver. "Top 10 Hamptons Art Moments Of 2014". Dan's Papers. Retrieved 31 December 2014.
  5. ↑ Segal, Mark. ""Tanster" Pays It Forward For Women's Cancers". The East Hampton Star. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
  6. ↑ Melillo, Alyssa. "They Call Her The Tanster". Southampton Press. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
  7. ↑ Rattiner, Dan. "Art In The Hamptons". Dan's Papers. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
  8. ↑ Melillo, Alyssa. "They Call Her The Tanster". Southampton Press. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
  9. ↑ "27east.com". Southampton Press. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
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