2023 Fall Exhibition

October 13-21, 2023

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.

147 artists from Northern New Mexico submitted more than 350 works to this year’s open call, more than doubling the number of pieces submitted to last year’s Inaugural Exhibition. As such, TAAC will honor the enthusiasm of our community by producing two exciting exhibitions, the first in Fall of 2023, followed by a Spring Exhibition in April of 2024. TAAC is an artist-driven idea platform. Following the success of our Inaugural Exhibition in 2022, TAAC launched the TAAC TALKS virtual artist visit series, produced its first juried exhibition, VIEWPOINT: Abstract Minimalism in Taos, New Mexico; expanded community partnerships and collaborations, hosted social events for artists and obtained its non-profit status. As we look to a bright future, TAAC will continue to prioritize artists and look to amplify 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 2023 & SPRING 2024 Curators

Kari Bell
Lauren Dana Smith
Bianca Goyette
Paulina Ho
Lynette O’Kane
Aleya Hoerlein

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Artists

Isaac AlaridPease
Desiree Allen
David Antreasian
Chandon Banning
Brian Barreto
Kari Bell
Janelle Worthington Cardenas
Andrea Cermanksi
Jeanette Cook
Claire Coté
Shirley Crow
Sayer Danforth
Roxanne Darling
Dora Dillistone
Jan Dorris
Lauren Douglas
Paul du Coudray
Ward L Estes
Connie Falk
Carla Forrest
Nancy Grabowski
Jana Greiner
Marianne Hall
Terrie Hall
Kiri Hargie
M. A. Havens
Leslie Hero
Paulina Ho
Robert Hoerlein
Katherine Hunt
Julia Jameson
Marilynn Jennings
Jill Kamas
Bruce Katlin
Nancy Kirk
Susu Knight
Debra Lapatina
Amanda Lechner
Susan Lefkowich
Sandra Lerner
Annell Livingston
Michael Lott
Alivia Magaña
Stephanie McCloud
Scott Nellis
Margaret Nes
Lynette O’Kane
Monique Parker
Susan Pasquarelli
Vanessa Prestage
Alan Paine Radebaugh
Sunny Redmond
Mr. Mark S. Reynolds
Kenneth Roberts
Lani Rowe
George Ruenitz
Danila Rumold
Mark Saxe
Michael Sharber
Frederick Smith
Emily Snieckus
Jonathan Sobol
Clark Stoeckley
James Stoner
Ethan Strickland
Christine Sullivan
Scott Sutton
Julia Takahashi
Onna Voellmer
Alice Webb
Chris Willcox
Chelsea Wrightson
Frederick Yost
Barbara Zaring