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① Artwork:
Queen Anne's Lace
In this painting, an image of a Queen Anne’s Lace flower gets abstracted through the artist’s quick, simplified brushmarks and monochrome palette. Like all the work in this series, this image references a flower from other media.
Applied with a light touch as though gently pressed onto their canvases, the floral imagery in Taylor Augustine’s art rarely gets painted from direct observation. Instead, her subjects have been translated from quick sketches, photography, printed video stills, or other sources. Through such material shifts, Augustine nods to the slippery roles flowers assume in our modern world.
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③ Artist:
Quickly applied with a light touch as though gently pressed onto their canvases, the abstracted floral imagery in Taylor Augustine’s work rarely gets painted from direct observation. Instead, her subjects have been translated through various media, from quick sketches to photography or blown-up and printed video stills, cropped so closely they lose all legibility. Through such material shifts, Augustine nods to the slippery roles flowers assume in our modern world.
Taylor Augustine was born in 1998 in Ohio. She received her BFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, IL (2021).
She has participated in group shows such as kiss my petals at Goldfinch, in Chicago, IL (2022); Green Belt at Jargon Projects in Chicago, IL (2022); Every Instance of Stasis at SAIC Galleries at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, IL (2021); and Inflorescence at Heaven Gallery in Chicago, IL (2021).
