Hollis Taggart

Tune in for our Instagram LIVE series, Taggart Time, Wednesday, September 29 at 6PM EST. Painter Clintel Steed will be in conversation with Director of Contemporary Art Paul Efstathiou. His paintings are currently on view in the group exhibition "Game On!" at our Southport, Connecticut location. Watch the broadcast with Clintel Steed (@clintelsteed) and Paul Efstathiou (@paulefstathiou) on our gallery Instagram Account @hollistaggart.

Gallery artist Audrey Flack is interviewed for Hyperallergic's podcast by Hrag Vartanian.

A painter who may be best known for her contribution to the Photorealism movement, Audrey Flack has been a working artist for roughly 70 years. Now at age 90, Flack reflects on the art world, from her days as part of the New York School of artists in the 1950s and 60s; her rise to fame as the only prominent female Photorealist; her embrace of sculpture and public art in the 1980s and 90s; and her return to painting only a few years ago.

Hollis Taggart is pleased to announce its representation of artist Tim Kent, who joins the gallery’s growing contemporary program. Kent’s work examines the dynamics of power as experienced through architecture and the formal vocabulary of art. His own paintings, which embrace both soft painterly gestures and crisp graphic lines, often depict architectural spaces and landscapes disrupted by the incorporation of grids or other geometries as well as figures in motion. Hollis Taggart previously included Kent’s work in its fall 2020 exhibition, Figure as Form, and in its recent online presentation for art miami. The artist will be featured in a group show at the gallery’s location in Southport, Connecticut later this year and will be the subject of a solo exhibition at Hollis Taggart’s Chelsea flagship in March 2022.

At some point during our conversation earlier this month, the 89-year-old artist Audrey Flack mentioned to me that she was wearing a t-shirt she had bought at the Museum of the City of New York. It read, “Feminist AF,” she told me. “When I first saw it, I thought, ‘AF, oh, that’s for Audrey Flack,’” she laughed. “I couldn’t believe they knew my initials!”