2024 Fall Exhibition
October 11–19, 2024
Stables Gallery
Taos Center for the Arts
The Taos Abstract Artist Collective (TAAC) promotes abstract artists living and working in Northern New Mexico toward the exchange of ideas, new aesthetics and creative concepts. Taos is synonymous with abstract thinking, with origins in indigenous geometries, transcendental and modernist movements, and conceptual and land art installation.
Once the nexus for westward bound artists, Taos unleashes expansive, abstract thinkers. It is from this landscape that TAAC is pleased to produce annual exhibitions highlighting abstract concepts across diverse artistic media and practice. Represented amongst the TAAC community are established, mid-career and emerging artists who show in Taos or Northern New Mexico, nationally and internationally.
TAAC is an artist-driven idea platform. As we enter our 3rd annual exhibition season with shows in both the Fall of 2024 and Spring of 2025, we are proud to share that the spirit of our organization is strong and collaborative as ever. Our Fall ‘24 and Spring ‘25 exhibitions will feature more than 140 abstract artists. By the end of 2024 TAAC will have exhibited more than 300 abstract artists living and/or working throughout New Mexico! This year, we have had the honor of collaborating with the Couse-Sharp Historic Site to coproduce On Which It Rests, an exhibition featuring 21 artists from New Mexico contemplating the significance of place. We are also delighted to join the Harwood Museum of Art in 2024 and 2025 in weaving together multiple webs of the Taos creative community through a series of collaborative events and exhibitions dedicated to the life and work of the late great artist Luchita Hurtado. One such project is a response exhibition, Channeling Luchita: a Community Response to the Life and Work of Luchita Hurtado, running from November ‘24 — February ‘25 at the Millicent Rogers Museum in Taos, which features ten artists responding to Hurtado’s themes. As our community expands, we will invest creative energy into projects and relationships that align with our mission to center artists and amplify accessibility and diversity in abstract art and practice across our region.
TAAC is an inclusive group that amplifies self-identifying abstract artists living and working in Northern New Mexico, honoring our intersecting identities across race, national origin, ethnicity, culture, size, gender identity and expression, disability, sexuality, age, socioeconomic status, neurotype, religion and/or spiritual practice. All abstract artists are welcome in their pursuit of provocative expression. Thank you to the artists who responded passionately to our exhibition open call this summer and who actively generate new connections and concepts in creative community-building and art practice. Thank you always to Taos itself for lending its history and legacy to us as a point of challenge, inspiration, and opportunity.
Yours in Abstraction,
TAAC Core Leadership Team
FALL 2024 & SPRING 2025 Curators
Lauren Dana Smith
bianca gabrielle goyette
Lynette O’Kane
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