Adams Apartment

“In between teaching his students how to create murals and working on his own fine art, Tamahn works his own version of a day job: redoing by hand the terra cotta detailing on the 1928 building.

‘You acclimate pretty quickly,’ he says as he sponges a sand-and-latex compound onto one of the pieces. ‘Once you’re up there it’s a lot easier to zone out and focus on the work. You just want to be aware enough to be sure-footed and not make a misstep.’ One misstep was the building falling into disrepair; several of the terra cotta adornments around the top of the building have either been lost to time or ruined by weather, and so Tamahn is working to restore the original sheen of the pieces…120 feet up–and Tamahn goes up by himself to check their quality.”

Excerpt from Alexander Tamahn: Constructing New Realities by Zack Reeves from Art Focus Oklahoma Vol. 34 No. 3 Summer 2019