About

Born in Whittier, California, USA, Rozanne Taucher has been creating art since she could pick up something for drawing, painting or building.  She grew up in Orange County and moved to Los Angeles to attend the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) on a state scholarship. 

 

During her matriculation at UCLA Taucher was part of a work/study program through the Army Corps of Engineers working in their graphics department under department head, Bill Barry, a respected cartoonist. It was Barry who taught Taucher the practical application of layout, design, story boarding and print preparation – tools she uses to this day. Concurrently, many of her peers at UCLA left the art department to pursue careers in film; often seeking the assistance of Taucher to help with their projects (and which sparked an interest in the filmmaking process). 

 

By having access to creative diversity and freedom of expression at UCLA, Taucher had a major breakthrough in her work as a mixed media artist.  Most notably, she was deeply influenced by painting instructor, David Shirm, and New Forms and Concepts instructor, Chris Burden, who brought into full circle the teachings of her previous instructors, Gary M. Lloyd (Director of the sculpture department UCLA program development for New Genre in Video and Performance Arts), and photography instructors, Judith Golden and Karen Truax.

 

Taucher found a personal exploration through the use of asphaltum as her main medium.  The characteristics and associations of asphaltum intrigued her.  She found the medium malleable with the ability to preserve and mend.  However, it was uncontrollable and took extreme patience to work with.  She was fascinated by asphaltum’s link to tar, and tar to tar pits – death traps and historians of life, lost and unknown civilizations.  (More intriguing and private to Taucher was the medium’s reminder of childhood and to her estranged father who had placed a mound of tar in their backyard which provided a source of curiosity.)

 

Combining a concentration in mixed media painting complemented by an exploration in performance art, Taucher received her first Baccalaureate in Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Arts in 1980 followed by a second Bachelor degree in Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from the trade school, Columbia College-Hollywood.

 

While pursuing a career in the film and tape industry, Taucher exhibited as part of several group and solo exhibitions in Southern California.  Her paintings have been integrated into several private collections locally and out of state. 

 

In 1990, Taucher accepted the position of Publicity Director for the Los Angeles Chapter of the Artists Equity Association (LACAEA); moving up the following year to Vice President and Treasurer.  She joined the artists’ co-op, LA ART - Installations One Gallery, helmed by artist, Mickey Kaplan.  With the encouragement from the President of LACAEA, Ariel E. Heart, Taucher began writing, producing, directing and hosting “The Art News Report” a made for public access cable show featuring Los Angeles artists as well as arts related topics and information which aired in 1992.  Her painting went in the direction of acrylics and oils, exploring a graphic arts angle rather than one of pure conception, as seen in her early work using mixed media and asphaltum.  During this time, masks, faces, cultures and cave drawings piqued Taucher’s interest. 

 

After completing a series of work, Taucher took a hiatus from art returning briefly in the early part of 2000 when she was inspired to create three abstracts as a show of appreciation for her first spiritual mentor, Bill Burns.  Afterward, Taucher went into retreat from artwork.

 

In 2011, Taucher was accepted into the Moviola Digital Arts Institute’s internship program where she took classes in Photoshop, Flash, AfterEffects and Avid – rekindling her visual creativity which was applied into her job as a freelancer in social media marketing.  Although she had been encouraged to return to painting by several people, including Burns, the opportunity and interruptions of life made it elusive until now.  

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Departing from her previous work, Taucher has found a new direction for her latest series inspired by her concentrated studies in metaphysics.  Using soft energy, Taucher now integrates her talent as an Energy Practitioner and Light Mixologist into her art work by infusing her creations with vibrations that are pleasing to view and experience. 

 

Exhibitions:

1999  El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Gallery, Los Angeles    

1994  Installations One, Encino                                                   

1993  Installations One, Encino                                                   

1991  Artspace Gallery, Woodland Hills                                      

1990  Stevenson Gallery, Los Angeles                                         

1990  Chiassons Hair Salon, West Hollywood                              

1989  Bianchina Hair Salon, West Hollywood                               

1988  4 Zero 9 Gallery, Marina Del Rey                                       

1988  Shifflett Gallery, Los Angeles                                             

1987  29 Palms Art Gallery, Twenty Nine Palms                          

1980  University of California at Los Angeles                               

1979  University of California at Los Angeles