Nick Taggart | With Laura Cooper

Collaborative artworks that combine drawings and photographs, printed on cotton and silk, with large fabric scrims that are traversed by sewn maps of roads, freeways, hills, train tracks and waterways. Plant material and fragments from the region referenced are suspended by thread. The resulting highly textured artwork is equal parts abstraction, photograph, drawing, homespun craft, and assemblage.

Glassell Atlas / 2016 / printed cotton and silk, cotton embroidery thread, wool, silk and mohair yarns, dragon-fruit rinds and flowers, dried orchids, datura seedpods, floss and seeds from floss silk tree, rocks, concrete, asphalt, glass, wood, nails, Japanese watercolor, felt tip marker, and acrylic on polyester / 128” x 145” x 11”

Glassell Atlas / detail

Thicket / 2015 / wood, cotton thread, string, plant materials, printed cotton, asphalt, ink and acrylic on cotton polyester / 89” x 123” x 13”

Thicket / detail