Naomi Taitz Duffy

In my abstract paintings, I set out to explore forms found in the natural world through an investigation of line, shape, color and pattern. Beginning typically with a single form, I construct new images which are informed by nature but not confined by it. Having always been intrigued by patterns, I allow the image to transform while staying true to its natural state. In these paintings, lines and shapes merge, as one bird in the flock seamlessly blends into its neighbor.

Naomi Taitz Duffy was born and raised in the Bronx, New York. She attended the High School of Music and Art, and went on to study art at Washington University in St. Louis. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a focus in Illustration. After graduating, Naomi worked as a graphic designer at the Louis Nelson Design Studio before pursuing a career in education. Since earning her Master's Degree in Elementary Education from Bank Street College in 2005, she has taught in public and private schools in New York and Washington, DC. Naomi studied drawing, painting and printmaking at the Art Students League in New York and currently studies figurative drawing and painting at the Washington Studio School. Naomi currently lives, works and paints in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, DC.