084: Artist Spotlight: Taylor Chapin

This week I welcome artist Taylor Chapin to the podcast to tell us about her journey in the art world and how she came to embrace life as an artist. Taylor also explains her process and the main theme you can find in her work, which is commentary on our consumer culture. 

Artwork is an important part of our designs, and knowing more about the work of local artists like Taylor can help you design something truly unique. Listen in and consider her pieces for your next project!

In this episode, I refer to Episode 50 with Andrew Utt of ICA. If you missed it or would like to revisit that conversation, you can check it out here.

Guest Bio

Working in both oil and acrylic, Taylor Chapin's paintings examine advertising, branding, superficiality, and the construction of value under the lens of American neoliberal capitalism. Her work questions our mindless drive toward industrialized American consumerism, the contents of which fill and fetishize our interior and exterior spaces. She reimagines mundane consumer goods emphasizing their inherent banality while simultaneously enshrining them, questioning how value is manufactured and challenging the perceptions of what is real/unreal, valuable/valueless.

She is drawn to the allure of what lies underneath.  She drapes, wraps, and covers with various fabrics to transform once recognizable forms into abstracted shapes, semi-composed inklings of what lies below. It is this illusory quality of implied volume and depth that bemuses and betrays the two dimensional space of the stretched canvas, allowing the painted surface to become an additional layer of the facade.

Chapin was born and raised in San Diego, California. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from San Francisco Art Institute and recently graduated with a Master of Fine Arts at University of California San Diego. She lives and works in San Diego, California.

Featured in this episode

Featured candle: Beeswax candle from Mithras Candle

Featured Tarot deck: Modern Witch Tarot Deck

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