Tara McPherson

About

Tara McPherson is an American contemporary artist born in San Francisco on April 7, 1976, and raised in Los Angeles. She earned a BFA with honors from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, in August 2001, majoring in Illustration with a Fine Art minor. During college, she interned at Rough Draft Studios on Matt Groening's 'Futurama.' She has lived in Portland, New York City since 2005, and most recently Pittsburgh. McPherson is renowned for her pop surrealism and lowbrow art, creating paintings, murals, sculptures, posters, and designer toys featuring powerful female archetypes with innocent yet wise expressions, using soft pastel palettes and themes of love, loss, myths, and the human condition.[1][2][4][6]

Pop surrealism with soft pastel palettes, illustrative technique, otherworldly female figures with wise eyes exploring human emotions and myths