AWAY
Christopher Taggart
Eli Ridgway Gallery, San Francisco · January 29 – March 5, 2011
Eli Ridgway Gallery is pleased to present AWAY, the first solo exhibition in San Francisco by Bay Area artist Christopher Taggart in over five years. Pulling from all facets of his varied and energetic practice, Taggart presents an intertwined bundle of works in diverse media, scales, and approaches.
His sculptures, drawings, photo-constructions, machines, and videos draw from often divergent inspirational directions — natural growth systems, comedy, mass material culture, self-portraiture, the mind, and food. It is at the collision point of these divergent inspirations that Taggart devises the systematic, often obsessive processes he attempts to guide toward the beautiful.
Works in the exhibitionClick to enlarge
Bananawar
Carrot
Pigberry
Portrait of a Photographer
Portrait of a Photographer (detail)
Portrait of a Photographer (detail)
Ta Ta
Ten Foot Tripple
Ten Foot Tripple (detail)
Turkey Leg
Installation viewsEli Ridgway Gallery, San Francisco
Press
“Taggart is a sculptor of leaping imagination. He begins his enormously labor-intensive projects without certainty where the rules he makes up will ultimately take him. … This is a debut in San Francisco that is long overdue, and greatly welcome.”