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Eli Ridgway Gallery

January 29 - March 6, 2011

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172 Minna Street San Francisco, CA 94105
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Away Christopher Taggart: Studio image of "Pigberry"
Opening Reception: January 29th, 4-7pm 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, self-portraiture, 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, geometry and the morphing of familiar things into strangely unfamiliar visual territories, and vice versa." -Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "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 at UC Davis, the Drawing Center in NY, ACE Gallery in Los Angles, the Bakersfield Museum Of Art, the Weisman Museum Of Art at Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, the New Orleans Museum Of Art, and the Gallery Of The School Of Art & Design, Suny Purchase, NY.