Past
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Susan Vecsey | Equilibrium
18 Feb - 28 Mar 2021 Tayloe Piggott Gallery is pleased to present Equilibrium, an exhibition of paintings by artist Susan Vecsey. Vecsey’s work exists in a realm between landscape and Color Field painting, where the opportunity for interpretation lies in the viewer’s gaze. Her most recent body of work includes seven paintings inspired by the... Read more -
Jeffrey Blondes | Le Bois de Mametz
18 Feb - 4 Apr 2021 Tayloe Piggott Gallery is pleased to present Le Bois de Mametz, an exhibition of drawings, a print, and film by artist, Jeffrey Blondes. Blondes began this project in 2016, with a time-based HD 24 hour film and edition print of still images of a tree he discovered in a woods... Read more -
Abacus | a group exhibition
16 Dec 2020 - 15 Feb 2021 This curated selection of lyrical paintings features poignant scenes of ice and snow that speak to one another, as they speak to us, of changes taking place in our environment. Bearing reflection on time and our future within this delicate ecosystem, Abacus reminds us of the magic of nature and... Read more -
Roland Poska | Papestries
11 Dec 2020 - 15 Feb 2021 A pioneer of handmade paper and printmaking, Poska elevated this craft to national renown in the tumult of the 1980s art world. Made of cotton fibers churned with pure powdered pigments, Poska’s paintings are accumulated works with sculptural attributes and referred to as “Papestries” by the artist. Poska also created... Read more -
Lee Hall | Stillnesses of Canyons
11 Dec 2020 - 15 Feb 2021 In a speech Hall gave in 1981 at Rhode Island School of Design she explained, “I am, in brief, a landscape painter. All of nature—rocks, trees, mosses, flowers, horizons shifting and darkening or lightening, shore edges, mists, dawns, dusks, reaches of sky and sand, hills and valleys, near and far... Read more -
Suzy Spence | Full Cry
10 Sep - 5 Nov 2020 Touching on 18 th -century society portraiture, political imagery, equestrian sporting paintings, and contemporary fashion photography, there is an air of female defiance and haughty sensitivities that feel alive and ghostly all at once. A sea of fresh female faces stare directly into the eyes of the viewer, intimating intense... Read more -
Esteban Vicente
13 Jul - 22 Aug 2020 Esteban Vicente was born in Turégano, Spain in 1903. His father served in the Civil Guard, a police force in the Castile region and was an amateur painter who took the young Vicente with him on visits to the Prado Museum. In 1918, Vicente entered military school, but left after... Read more -
Stephen Keeney | Recent Paintings
25 Jun - 8 Aug 2020 Presenting his first solo show at Tayloe Piggott Gallery, this body of work features fourteen paintings, that captures the breadth of Stephen Keeney’s capabilities as a painter. Four massive canvases, one cool and sparse, another pulsing and warm, build upon more intimately scaled works on paper that appear like igneous... Read more -
Suzanne Caporael
25 Jun - 8 Aug 2020 Suzanne Caporael was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1949. Her work derives from close observation of the natural world and the attempts—scientific and cultural—to define and control it. Observation coupled with research has resulted in groups of paintings related to trees, chemical elements, water, ice, time and place memory. Read more -
Vicki Sher | Beside Myself
27 Apr - 7 Jun 2020 Exploring human behavior, natural objects, and relationships within each collection of work, Sher’s vibrant colors express the inherent beauty and joy within our world. Even though our current social and political realities may be in dissolution, Sher remains positive and uses her art as a way to stimulate beauty inside... Read more -
W. Tucker | Heads in the mountains
27 Apr - 7 Jun 2020 Tucker’s mixed media works possess a profound duality, highlighting the integral relationship between the base material on which he paints, and the subject depicted on the surface. His works are a palimpsest of found materials, layered with numerous mediums including charcoal, watercolor, graphite, resin, ink, and oil. Created by his... Read more -
Tuck Fauntleroy | Elements
7 Feb - 11 Apr 2020 Tuck Fauntleroy’s artistic practice focuses on the medium of water and its expansive relationships. Utilizing rivers as the subject matter, sharp visual lines are accentuated by the snow-covered earth from an aerial perspective. Fauntleroy visually displaces the viewer, pushing the boundaries of realism and abstraction through compositions of positive and... Read more -
Russell Crotty | Coordinates Unknown
7 Feb - 11 Apr 2020 Crotty’s new body of work references early art movements such as Surrealism, Finish Fetish from the 1960s, process experimentation from the 1970s, Modernism and retro Sci-Fi. His process begins with works on paper, drawn with sticks dipped in ink (with a nod to Matisse), then overlaid with 3-dimensional plastic, fiberglass... Read more -
Wolf Kahn
16 Dec 2019 - 25 Jan 2020 Kahn centers his paintings on the way masses of saturated hues can be made to “push and pull” each other into space. A summer sunset blazes with a very red; a thicket of trees distilled to their most elemental, silhouetted by a luminous yellow light. Kahn takes scenery that is... Read more -
Jane Rosen | Ranch Life
16 Dec 2019 - 26 Jan 2020 For Rosen, understanding animal nature is the key to understanding human nature. Much of her work concerns capturing a moment when an animal is caught in the act of looking or doing; these creatures have an intention, but how aware are they of themselves and their actions? Rosen’s work subtly... Read more -
Paul Villinski
8 Aug - 5 Oct 2019 Well attuned to environmental issues, Villinski repurposes discarded materials into art objects: beer and soda cans; vinyl records; musical instruments; shipping pallets. He painstakingly and lovingly guides these mundane materials into flight. For this exhibition, in terms of scale and ambition, Villinski selected recent works that push beyond what has... Read more -
Eric Aho | River Line
7 Aug - 22 Sep 2019 This work is a portrait of Aho’s time spent outdoors with his wife, Rachel. As Rachel enjoys fishing and wandering along the riverbank, Eric casts his brush across a canvas and wanders in a different way. Absorbed in his work, Aho meditates on the colors and patterns before him. His... Read more -
Jason Middlebrook | Heading West
7 Aug - 22 Sep 2019 Inspired by the artful patterns embedded in the grains of a tree, Middlebrook’s work both exemplifies the sinuous lines running within wood as well as his artistic engagement with abstract, geometric forms. His work overlays organic material, such as cross-sections taken from the trunks of trees, with vivid geometric compositions... Read more -
John Alexander | Recent Paintings
20 Jun - 28 Jul 2019 Alexander’s compositions display the beauty inherent to our natural world in a comparable way to historic masters such as Claude Monet and the artists of the Hudson River School. While reminiscent in imagery, Alexander goes beyond the work of these past visionaries to suggest something sinister within each landscape. Illuminating... Read more -
Chris Lehrecke | Designing with Nature
14 Jun - 19 Jul 2019 Based in Bangall, New York, Chris Lehrecke and Gabriella Kiss are collaborative artists who create inspired works of art. Lehrecke quickly established himself within the world of designer furniture and is well known for his unique, wood-based designs. His wife, Gabriella Kiss, designs beautiful jewlery pieces as well as artful... Read more -
Greta Waller | Ice Block Series
10 May - 8 Jun 2019 A subject of primary and ongoing interest to Waller (for almost a decade) is ice. In her Ice Block Paintings, Waller places a block of ice on a plate, and then races to capture the light refracting within the block as it melts. Conceptually fascinating, this series engages the viewer... Read more -
Lance Letscher | The Miraculous Staircase
26 Apr - 8 Jun 2019 The thesis of Letscher’s latest body of work is found within the brilliant colors of his materials. Each collage is covered in cutout flowers and plants, giving the compositions a distinctive spirit. Unlike other imagery, flowers and plants are subsumed by their property of color. This brings an intensity to... Read more -
Mike Piggott | Peripheral
26 Apr - 8 Jun 2019 Often depicting personal experiences or landscapes, Piggott’s aesthetic vividly portrays a simple lifestyle that illuminates the beauty of the familiar. This exhibition showcases new paintings that portray a nostalgic, western ethos- evoking reflection on the concept of place. Radiating a style of painting similar to well-known artist David Hockney, Piggott... Read more -
Susan Vecsey | New Paintings
15 Feb - 7 Apr 2019 Although Vecsey’s work appears seamless and fluid, there is a calculated structure behind each blanket of color. Working from en plein air charcoal drawings, she applies a grid to each sketch in order to grasp the necessary geometry of the image. After determining the correct proportions for the painting, Vecsey... Read more -
Adrian Nivola | Intimate Architecture of the Insturment
15 Feb - 7 Apr 2019 Nivola’s meticulously crafted inventions, made of wood and metal, reveal the precision and elegance of a watch-maker. His works are mostly small in size, yet they evoke a monumental scale as with a Chinese scholar’s rock or a medieval illumination. Each piece conveys, paradoxically, the illusion of grand forms within... Read more -
Fiona Waterstreet | Ceramic Sculptures
28 Dec 2018 - 26 Jan 2019 She began throwing clay in 2009 at the Greenwich House Pottery Studio in New York. After learning how to make cylinders and bowls, Waterstreet reached a point where she wanted to make something more dynamic with the clay. Treasuring the freedom of sculpting the material with her hands, Waterstreet created... Read more -
Sebastian Blanck | Snow at Dusk
10 Dec 2018 - 3 Feb 2019 Sebastian Blanck, like the Impressionists before him, is compelled by quiet, quotidian moments. His work challenges the viewer to stand still and lose oneself in the narratives through strong lines, vibrant color and playful composition. Blanck’s paintings are an expression of the feelings that connect us with one another. By... Read more -
Selected Works | Maja Ruznic | Vicki Sher | Kaidi Dunstan
12 Oct - 1 Dec 2018 A keen observer of human fragility, Ruznic’s disfigured sculptures reflect the hidden physical and emotional trauma in our world. With similar intention, Ruznic also works with oil, ink, and watercolor to create abstract paintings. Distilling everyday objects and figures into geometric shapes, Sher’s work is an intuitive dance of color... Read more -
Mari Andrews | Elemental Drawing
29 Aug - 6 Oct 2018 Mari Andrews’ sculptural work incorporates a collection of personally found treasures. Acorns, seeds, rocks, lichen, rust, pigment and leaves are carefully combined with annealed steel wire or metal panels creating distinct forms. Andrews cherishes each found object and allows the spirit of the object to direct her work. Due to... Read more -
Jeffrey Blondes | Time Based HD Films + Print Editions
29 Aug - 6 Oct 2018 The shooting schedules and locations frequently are timed to record a seasonal or exceptional celestial event in a specific place. Other films are made more spontaneously over the course of a year, near his home in rural France. For Blondes, time calculations and camera mechanics are key elements of his... Read more
