Talya Baharal is a multi-disciplinary artist who lives and maintains her painting studio in the Hudson Valley, New York. Widely recognized, exhibited, and published as a studio art jeweler and sculptor for over three decades, she was also the recipient of a NYFA fellowship and other grants and awards. She served as a juror for the NYFA sculpture/craft category in 2011. Baharal was the curator of a well-respected anthology of contemporary silver jewelry published by Lark Books in 2011.

While Baharal is primarily a self-taught artist, upon moving to Maine in 2012, she began focusing exclusively on painting and took several workshops with the renowned abstract painter and teacher Steve Aimone. Upon her return to New York in 2016, she studied with Fran O’Neill and John Lees at the NY Studio School. Her abstract painting work has since been presented in several solo exhibitions in Chelsea, New York City, Healdsburg, California, Torrington, Connecticut, and Rockland, Maine. Baharal is represented by Lulo Gallery in Healdsburg, California, and Triangle Gallery in Rockland, Maine.

WHAT’S IN A VOICE Workshop
August 11-14, 10am-2pm
Montserrat College of Art, Beverly

Join us for an inspiring four-day workshop this summer with abstract painter and sculptor Talya Baharal, the 2025 Goetemann Distinguished Artist/Teacher. Baharal brings her unique, multi-disciplinary experience and artistic journey to this workshop. She will share her irreverent approach to making art and discuss the role of discovery and growth through non-traditional methods, using collage as a dialogue with paint. The workshop will focus on helping participants explore and develop their own painter’s voice through experimentation, offering prompts for expanding abstract vocabulary. Additionally, it will provide a supportive space for reviewing and discussing participants’ current work.