Melding real with absurd, Tamera Avery's paintings grapple with the world's decay

Melding real with absurd, Tamera Avery's paintings grapple with the world's decay

San Francisco artist Tamera Avery‘s provocative figurative works catch your attention with characters in compromising and surprising terrain. What she is proposing is that we take a deeper look at the nature of being humans caught in metaphorical predicament.  Avery considers herself a representational painter and her canvases typically feature a masked or costumed figure, often in darkened palettes. Her painting process starts with collage as s…