Christopher Taggart: Away
January 29th, 2011 - March 5th, 2011
Baer Ridgway Exhibitions

Bananawar, 2008 - 2011
Scribed and engraved dyed aluminum panels
60 x 120 inches

Bananawar (detail), 2008 - 2011
Scribed and engraved dyed aluminum panels
60 x 120 inches

Pigberry (for Sizemore), 2011
Archival inkjet on polyester, various mechanical parts, motor, water
Variable dimensions

But Now You Know You've Seen the Worst, 2010
UV laminated photographs glued to board with pigmented archival adhesive
32 x 40 inches

Carrot, 2001
Photographs sewn together with monofilament
8 x 2 x 2 inches

Portrait of My Wife, 2010
Adhesive paper, video and mechanical components, television sets
Variable dimensions

Portrait of My Wife, 2010
Adhesive paper, video and mechanical components, television sets
Variable dimensions

Portrait of My Wife (detail), 2010
Adhesive paper, video and mechanical components, television sets
Variable dimensions

Portrait of a Photographer (With a Dozen of Her Portraits), 2011
UV laminated photographs glued to board with pigmented archival adhesive
43.5 x 45.5 inches (frame)

Self-Portrait as a Ghost (Boy), 2004
Colored Ink on Paper
60.25 x 35.25 inches

Self-Portrait as a Ghost (Iraq War Soldier), 2004
Colored Ink on Paper
45.25 x 32 inches

The Wacky Worm Draws a Mandala, 2010
Mechanical components, brush, ink, paper

Turkey Leg (with Artist’s Thumb), 2001
Photographs sewn together with monofilament
10 x 4 x 3 inches

CHRISTOPHER TAGGART: AWAY
January 29th - February 5th, 2011

Baer Ridgway Exhibitions is pleased to present AWAY, the first solo exhibition in San Francisco by Bay
Area artist Christopher Taggart in over 5 years. Pulling from all facets of his varied and energetic art
making practice, Taggart presents an intertwined bundle of works in diverse media, scales and
approaches. His sculptures, drawings, photo-constructions, machines, and videos draw from often
divergent inspirational directions, including natural growth systems, comedy, mass material culture, selfportraiture,
the mind, and food. It is at the collision point of such divergent inspirations where Taggart
devises systematic and often obsessive processes that he attempts to guide towards the beautiful.

“[Taggart's] objects reflect the tradition of labor-intense production while at the same time the finished
works are raw, energetic, lunatic and idea-based."
-Renny Pritikin, Director, Nelson Gallery, U.C. Davis

"Christopher Taggart explores proportion, perspective, optical illusion, measurement, gemoetry and the
morphing of familiar things into strangely unfamiliar visual territories, and vice versa."
-Ace Gallery

"By inserting himself mimetically into technology's methods of production and asserting his own influence
on these processes, [Taggart] functions as a fugitive human agency that is able to transcribe immaterial
traits into fantastic possibilities for tangible objects and images."
-Paul Brewer, Independent Curator, from the essay "Project(ion)s"

Along with a B.S. in Physics from the College Of William And Mary, Taggart also holds an M.F.A. in
Sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University. Taggart has presented his work in numerous
exhibitions across the country, including the Yerba Buena Center For The Arts, the Richard L. Nelson
Gallery, UC Davis, the Drawing Center, NY, ACE Gallery, Los Angles, the Bakersfield Museum Of Art, the
Weisman Museum Of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, Ca, the New Orleans Museum Of Art, and the
Gallery Of The School Of Art & Design, Suny Purchase, NY.