Tabitha Abbott is a contemporary oil-painter splitting time between Seattle, WA and Denver, CO. Her work’s visual arrangements are inspired by audit evidence and pinned-insects. Organic specimens and elements collected against backgrounds reminiscent of excel for the viewer’s assessment and analysis.
Abbott is an accountant by trade. Since earning her M.S. in Accounting at the University of Wyoming she has been working within the IT audit environments of Fortune 500 companies. Abbott and her creations have been heavily influenced by these rigid control-based surroundings.
Her paintings serve as records not of the natural world’s history but rather as archives of the artist’s own journey, interests, and inspirations. The high-contrast compositions reflect the harmony she has found between her dichotomous worlds of art and regulatory corporate auditing.
Abbott’s work is most easily recognized by the monochromatic pattern captured within a rectangular form on each piece. The pattern’s application acts as a symbolic representation of a time-stamp, capturing the moment when the piece was completed. The rectangular shape in which it lives inspired by the form of the Republic Plaza building in Denver where she first began work as an auditor.