Taylor Davis “Cancel All Our Vows”
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This event has ended.
Everything is everything.
The relationships between things are equal.
There is not one move. The structure is not the full story.
The sentence is content and syntax and form and color and the body moving.
Try not to make judgment, there is nothing to figure out, the eggs could tip over.
It’s a quantity. A collection of elements.
Look and consider.
The grid allows for moving and rotating.
Its precision moves to randomness.
It is an invitation to float and turn in the world.
There is not one entry or exit.
It will meet you whoever you are.
Everything is in front of you.
It will meet you wherever you are.
Proximity is knowing.
It is happening in this room, right now.
Look, move, return, look again, move again, return.
- Notes from a conversation between Taylor Davis, Nancy Shaver, and Kristen Dodge
Taylor Davis was born in Palm Springs, California. She received her Diploma of Fine Arts from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 1984 and her BS of Ed from Tufts University in 1985. She received her MFA from Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College in 1997Her work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; White Columns, New York, NY; The Contemporary Austin, Austin, TX; and UTS Gallery, Sydney, Australia. She was the recipient of the Museum of Fine Arts Traveling Scholarship, Milton and Sally Avery Scholarship at Bard College, Massachusetts Cultural Council Sculpture Grant, Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston Artist Prize, St. Botolph Foundation Grant, Anonymous Was a Woman, and Radcliffe Fellowship. Davis’s work has been reviewed in Artforum, The New York Times, Art in America, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe, among others. Her work is included in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, and Fogg Art Museum. Davis has been a teacher at Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College since 2002. In 2014, she will have a solo exhibition at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and she will be included in an exhibition at The Francis Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery. Davis lives and works in Boston, Massachusetts.
[Image: Taylor Davis, Untitled (FarmTek #2), 2014, copic marker and collage on sized canvas, 75.5 x 60.5 inches]
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Schedule
from March 01, 2014 to April 13, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-03-01 from 18:00 to 20:00