GALLERY
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- Cochlea Ignus Bartletti, 30 x 40 in, Hand Cut Archival Photo Collage
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- Cochlea Andronicus Gaynori, 30 x 40 in, Hand Cut Archival Photo Collage
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- Viride Testa Christea , 30 x 40 in, MHand Cut Archival Photo Collage
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- Cochlea Regina Poultonus, 30 x 40 in, Hand Cut Archival Photo Collage
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- Viride Squilla Aabas, 30 x 40 in, Hand Cut Archival Photo Collage
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- Cochlea Sturt Camillae, 30 x 40 in, Hand Cut Archival Photo Collage
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- Segmentum Collum Ashae, 30 x 40 in, MHand Cut Archival Photo Collage
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- Segmentum Collum Carmelo, 30 x 40 in, Hand Cut Archival Photo Collage
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- Segmentum Collum Judleoni, 30 x 40 in, MHand Cut Archival Photo Collage
CONTACT
For a full catalogue of works for sale and media enquiries, please contact
taradelagarza (at) gmail.com
Click for full Biography
Tara de la Garza is an Irish/Australian artist who has exhibited nationally and internationally with the The Lodge Gallery NYC, San Diego Art Institute, No Longer Empty, Chashama, , Figment, MassMOCA and Aggregate Space Gallery. She currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area. Tara studied a BA/Fine Art at Curtin University, Australia. Tara also runs a contemporary art space called The Frank.
Progeny opening June 22nd
Opening: Palo Alto Arts Center, Papercuts: Large Scale Collage
Dates: Opening June 22nd 2018 7-10pm,
June 16 – August 26th 1313 Newell Rd Palo Alto, CA
Progeny
Tara de la Garza’s meditations on nature and diversity manifest as a taxonomy of species, collaged together from elements collected from natural history books, magazines and found images. In her second series her species continues to evolve. As they propagate their progeny of bizarre descendants reflect on our own progress.
de la Garza creates “a visual mythology that dissolves both the hierarchy and the boundaries between living things” Sarah Walko
Tara de la Garza likes to think of time in geological terms, evolving slowly. Her evolutionary creatures are an imagining of life on a planet unfettered by overcrowding or even, indeed, the laws of nature. Yet somehow these distorted creatures look as if they could function in the world, much like the parlor game of the Exquisite Corpse, they have a head, a torso and a tail/legs.
Likening the work to that of a scientist discovering a new species she names her creatures based on a nomenclature of relationships, the Latin names attributed to important people in her life. In this exhibited work the species are paired off and create their own descendants.
Solo Exhibit at The Lodge Gallery NYC
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- Solo show in NYC
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- Lignum Vitae Tarafilae
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- Tara de la Garza and Manon Slome
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- Jason Patrick Voegele, Tara de la Garza and Keith Schweitzer
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- Cochlea Regina Poultonus
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- No Longer Empty crew
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- Cochlea Sturt JoEdeus
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- Aranea Sturt Vanderkolkorum
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- Segmentum Collum Judleoni
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- Segmentum Collum Ashae
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- Segmentum Collum Carmelo
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- Segmentum Collum McGovernus
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- Squilla Regina Camillae
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- Viride Squilla Aabas
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- Viride Testa Christea
Workshop at San Diego Art Institute
Creating collages in a workshop is such a rewarding experience for me as the participants can immediately begin to see connections and juxtapositions between the imagery provided and also create their own.
I mentioned to the group that part of my inspiration came from the second hand bookstore in La Jolla and was very happy to hear that one artist went there the next day, mining the $1 book rack for imagery.
San Diego Art Institute April 1st
I’m please to announce my inclusion in a group show at the San Diego Art Institute called Diverge/Convene: Contemporary Mixed Media opening at SDAI on April 1, 2017 from 6pm-8pm. The exhibition will run through May 15. Details here
In her recent collage work, Tara de la Garza distorts elements of nature to create new hybrid creatures. Sitting in an uneasy world between biological diversity and unchecked genetic modification, her work is a depiction of a fantasy sci/fi world without humans where nature evolves chaotically but wholeheartedly.
Workshop at SDAI April 13
This is going to be a fun night where
we drink wine, tell tales and make some art.
One mystery limited edition print will be available only on this evening.
workshop info
