“Animal Doodle” included in Deus Ex Bark-Ina at ECOCA

Written By Tatiana Tatum

New group show in New Haven, Ct

Excited to announce that “Animal Doodle” is included at “Deus Ex Bark-ina” group Show at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art in New Haven from 8/16 - 9/13 with a closing reception on September 13th from 3 - 6 pm.

Image by Anastasiya Tarasenko

Featuring works by: Alessandra Exposito, Alix Pearlstein, Alyssa Monks, Anastasia Sargent, Annamariah Knox, Anastasiya Tarasenko, Bethany Jean, Bill Adams, Carol Saft, Cristhian Varela, Danielle Klebes, Douglas Degges, Elina Ansary, Ella Grimm, Emilie Louise Gossiaux, Emily Weiskopf, Eric Hibit, Erika Ranee, George Boorujy, Hyunjin Park, Inkpa Mani, Jan Baracz, JJ Manford, Joanna Malinowska, Juan Hinojosa, Kati Gegenheimer, Keiaria Williams, Keira Curwen, Kyle Bellucci Johanson, Leeza Meksin, Lesley Finn, Leslie Brack, Lisa Lebofsky, Louise Belcourt, Marissa Cote, Mary Lesser, Matt Bollinger, Matthew Lax, Melanie Vote, Michael Ashkin, Michael Morgan, Mona Kowalska, Noel Neri, Pierce Corbin Kinnally, Polly Shindler, Sammy Bennett, Scott Michael Ackerman, Sheila Novak, Sophie Larrimore, Stephen Morrison, Tamar Ettun, Tatiana Tatum, Terry Plater, Will Hutnick, and Zach Seeger.

“Animal Doodle” by Tatiana Tatum, 12x16 in oil on canvas, 2026

Doodling a dog can be a challenge.

Constantly shaped by humans, this animal has a variety of shapes, unreducible to a single iconic one. “Animal Doodle” depicts an attempt at this impossible task.

Tatiana Tatum

Tatiana Tatum is a Beaufort, South Carolina-based oil painter. She creates vibrant and playful oil paintings unified thematically by water and figure.

Born in Murmansk, Russia, Tatum immigrated to the United States in 2018, and received BA in Studio Art from University of South Carolina Beaufort (Bluffton, SC). Her signature series, Foggy Windows, capture fingertip doodles on condensation into enduring oil paintings. By preserving these temporary marks in oil paint, Tatum reframes them as containers for identity.

Tatum’s work has been exhibited at the Alexandria Museum of Art, the Long Beach Island Foundation, and Cornell University and was recently featured in Hyperallergic and Art Spiel. Regionally, she is represented at Thibault Gallery in Beaufort, where she was the featured artist in 2024. She has also exhibited with Alpha Mare Gallery in Savannah and participated in the Telfair Museums’ PULSE Art + Technology Festival. Her painting, Inside Out, is part of the permanent collection of the University of South Carolina Beaufort (USCB).

https://tatianatatum.com
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