photo-eye Gallery Maggie Taylor - Internal Logic Delaney Hoffman This week, photo-eye Gallery is thrilled to spotlight some of the fantastic images housed in Maggie Taylor's newest monograph, Internal Logic!

Maggie Taylor, Spring Break, 2021, Archival pigment print, 15x15", Edition of 15, $2800

This week, photo-eye Gallery is thrilled to spotlight some of the fantastic images housed in Maggie Taylor's newest monograph, Internal Logic!

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As the Gallery Assistant, one of my favorite things to do is sit back and watch visitors try to decipher a Maggie Taylor photograph for the first time. They move forward and backward, sometimes with a little bit of confusion, and I know what their question is going to be before they even ask it:

"Is this a picture or a painting?"

It's easy to see where the unsuspecting viewer could be fooled. Taylor's compositions are digitally constructed with thousands of layers of photographs, scanned objects and textures, the artist makes invented worlds into material ones through her masterful use of Photoshop—and the results are magnificent. Internal Logic is the eighth book from Maggie Taylor, published by Moth House Press in January of 2022, that shows off some of the most brazen successes of this past decade of the artist's career.

As one of the pre-eminent masters of photomontage, Taylor's style has been emulated by many, but it's the singularity of her vision that ultimately makes Taylor's own "internal logic" apparent. There is, of course, also the brilliant sequencing choice of beginning and ending the book with two similar compositions made ten years apart, between which we find dogs in tutus, boats and zebra stripes and luscious bouquets. 

Internal Logic is a title that truly lets you into Maggie Taylor's world and we're so excited to celebrate it. View more images from the book below (they're all available as prints as well!) and mark your calendars for Saturday, August 6th, 2022 for an event at photo-eye Gallery!

>> photo-eye Conversation with Maggie Taylor and Anne Kelly <<

A spread from Internal Logic

Maggie Taylor, Well Then, 2015, Archival pigment print, 8x8", Edition of 15, $1500

Maggie Taylor, The Bargain, 2018, Archival pigment print, 8x8", Edition of 15, $1500

A spread from Internal Logic featuring Maggie Taylor's signature five-color ribbon

Maggie Taylor, The Toast of Last Night, Archival pigment print, 15x15", Edition of 15, $2800

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Internal Logic. By Maggie Taylor

Maggie Taylor's Internal Logic is available in a standard trade edition as well as a limited edition that includes a choice of an editioned 8x8" print!

>> View Internal Logic in the bookstore here <<

>> Maggie Taylor on her process and references <<

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Print costs are current up to the time of posting and are subject to change. All images from Internal Logic are available individually as archival pigment prints.

photo-eye Gallery is proud to represent Maggie Taylor.

For more information, and to purchase prints by Maggie Taylor, please contact Gallery Director Anne Kelly or Gallery Assistant Delaney Hoffman, or you may also call us at 505-988-5152 x202

photo-eye Gallery From the Flat-Files: Photomontage photo-eye Gallery
We can discuss photomontage in both its analog and digital versions, its numerous technical possibilities within both these realms, and the issues it faces in contemporary art. This week we feature some of our favorites photomontages from our flat-files.

Jennifer Greenburg, I was a vendor of drink but not love, archival pigment ink, 24 x 30 inches, edition of 3, $3500

 

Popularized by the Dadaists and Constructivism, photomontage has provided artists with the ability to go beyond photography's primal pursuit to represent reality. In an unparalleled way, the technique has offered original, or at least re-interpreted, worlds in photographic form — artworks that seamlessly combine many photographs into one, new vision and idea.

Today, we can discuss photomontage in both its analog and digital versions, its numerous technical possibilities within both these realms, and the issues it faces in contemporary art. 

This week we feature some of our favorite photomontages from our flat-files.

Jennifer Greenburg

Using digital photomontage, Jennifer Greenburg inserts herself into scenes of mid-century America. Her series Revising History, seamlessly incorporates images of Greenburg within the compositions of anonymous vintage photographs. The resulting black and white images look like those found in a family album.

In images like I was a vendor of drink but not love, Greenburg chose an image that depicts a character she can identify with. She researched who the subject was and tried to figure out what her experience was the moment the image was captured. The intention behind the work is to raise a conversation with her audience about how we interpret media and personal memories to establish a collective history.

To learn more about what goes on behind Jennifer Greenbug's images, read our interview with her here. 

Maggie Taylor

 

Maggie Taylor, The Harbinger, archival pigment ink, 8 x 8 inches, edition of 15, $1500

The Harbinger, by Maggie Taylor, combines old photos and illustrations, mainly representing a crow cawing on top of an uncanny flying device and a polar bear placidly swimming across an iceless sea. The resulting artwork is a surrealistic dreamscape that commands careful attention from the viewer to fully grasp.

Taylor's photomontages, a combinatinon of the historical and contemporary, consist of 19th century daguerreotypes, old illustrations, found photographs, and diverse objects and artifacts —all layered together through meticulous digital image editing. You may learn more about her practice here. 

Chaco Terada

 

Chaco Terada, Dialogue, sumi ink and pigment ink on silk, 9.5 x 7 inches, $1800

Chaco Terada's creative process is meditative and organic, her workflow is purely intuitive, her images are inspired by her daily musings and interactions with her surroundings. A master calligrapher and visual poet, Terada uses multiple layers of silk, images, sumi and pigment inks to create her works.

There is something very "natural" about Terada's photomontages. In Dialogue, somehow the mechanicity often attributed to photomontage — the layering of dissasociated elements — is completely blurred in the misty quality of the work. The delicate brush marks in the foreground and the serene mountaintop in the background, dissolve together in a seamless and harmonious visual dialogue. To learn more about Chaco Terada's work, check out the interview she did with photo-eye.

Tom Chambers

 

Tom Chambers, I Can Touch, archival pigment ink, 21 x 12 inches, $950

For Tom Chambers, photomontage is a vehicle to combine the diverse ideas stemming from his imagination — a way to make them tangible.

 

To construct his photographs, Chambers usually sketches the concept he has for an image. Sometimes, he will also find an element and photograph it as a starting point. The rest of the magic happens in the digital post-production process. 

 

His photomontage I can touch merges reality and dream, while speaking to the beauty of childhood and the wonder of sea life. It is magical realism at its best. You may learn more about his work here. 

 

 

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All prices listed were current at the time this post was published.

For more information, and to purchase prints, please contact Gallery Director Anne Kelly or Gallery Assistant Patricia Martin, or you may also call us at 505-988-5152 x202