Try to Tell a Fish About Water

In addition to her successful career as a uniquely gifted musician and songwriter, Norma Tanega was a noted gallerist, longtime teacher, and a central figure in the vibrant and homegrown creative scene of Claremont, California. She was also a visual artist of astonishing originality. In Try to Tell a Fish About Water, the bold colors and gestural immediacy of Tanega''s paintings and mixed media art is presented for the first time alongside photos, illustrations, journals, and other ephemera. Featuring reflections and remembrances from Norma''s friends and collaborators scrapbooked together with the extraordinary visuals, Try to Tell a Fish About Water is a long overdue exploration of Tanega''s art career and a collaged testament to a life spent immersed in creativity.

Vorwort
Book release coincides with exhibition at White Columns Gallery in NYC. Promotional postcards available.

Autorentext
Norma Tanega (January 30, 1939 – December 29, 2019) was a musician, singer, songwriter, and painter who reached worldwide recognition after the release of her 1966 hit single, “Walkin’ My Cat Named Dog.” In addition to her solo career, she was a songwriter for Dusty Springfield, and performed with a number of groups well into the 2000s. A painter throughout her life, Tanega first began exhibiting her work at the age of sixteen, and received her MFA from Claremont Graduate University in 1962, with her later work often supported by the Claremont Museum of Art. She passed away in December 2019, at the age of eighty.  Born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, Diane Divelbess is a painter and printmaker whose undergraduate work was done at Scripps College and her MFA at the Claremont Graduate School (now University) in Southern California. She was a member of the Art Faculty at Cal Poly University Pomona, chairing the Art Department there for eight years, and is a past president and life member of the Los Angeles Printmaking Society. Divelbess lives on Whidbey Island, WA, where among her many other roles, she has been Chairperson of the City of Langley Arts Commission and continues to be active in Whidbey Island arts events.

Klappentext
The first comprehensive book on the art and life of Norma Tenega. *Since gaining worldwide recognition in the 1960s with her album and single 'Walkin' My Cat Named Dog', Tanega's music has recently reached a new audience as her song 'You're Dead' featured as the theme music for the TV series 'What We Do in the Shadows.'