Tamy Ben-Tor
Artist Tamy Ben-Tor performs some of her weird, unsettling characters live this weekend as her latest show closes
The total commitment artist Tamy Ben-Tor, whose latest show at Zach Feuer Gallery closes this weekend with live performances, brings to the absurd personality types in her videos makes them both hilarious and a bit unsettling, even scary. In person, however, Ben-Tor is disarmingly friendly, open-faced, even laid back. (She is also surprisingly tall.) She came to acting, while in college, almost accidentally, she said, after discovering she had a gift for mimicry. “We were given these assignments in which the teacher said, ‘You can paint it, sculpt it, or act it out,’” she said when we met at her Williamsburg apartment. “And I realized I could just embody these personalities. My skill was imitation, like a parrot.” More
