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David Taylor
Border Monument No. 192, from the series “Monuments: 276 Views of the United States‑Mexico Border,” 2006/2015
Estimated Value: $2,800
Inkjet mounted on Dibond
22 x 29 inches
Framed
Edition 1/10
Signed, on mount
Donated by the artist, courtesy of Rick Wester Fine Art, Inc.
David Taylor's "Monuments: 276 Views of the United States-Mexico Border" is equal parts geographic survey, typology, and endurance project.
Documenting each of the obelisks installed by the International Boundary Commission following the Mexican/American War, the monuments describe the border as it extends west, from El Paso/Juarez to Tijuana/San Diego. Located in highly populated urban areas and some of the most remote expanses of Chihuahuan and Sonoran desert, the obelisks function as sample points across 690 miles of land boundary.
While the border was originally photographed by D.R. Payne in the 1890s, Taylor produces a contemporary resurvey revealing a border in transition with the inscrutable monuments acting as witness to a shifting national identity as expressed through an altered physical terrain.
About the Artist:
David Taylor
David Taylor’s photographs, multimedia installations, and artist's books examine issues of place, territory, history and politics. His work has been exhibited in group and solo exhibitions at Harvard University, the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, The New Mexico Museum of Art and the Nevada Museum of Art.
Taylor's work is in the permanent collections of Fidelity Investments, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Museum of Contemporary Photography and the Museum of New Mexico among others. The New Yorker blog, The New York Times LENS, The Los Angeles Times, Orion Magazine, PREFIX PHOTO, Fraction Magazine and the Mexico/Latin America Edition of Esquire Magazine have all featured his images.
Taylor's examination of the U.S. – Mexico border was supported by a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. His monograph Working the Line was published by Radius Books in 2010 and has received numerous "best book" and design excellence awards. His collaborative work with Marcos Ramírez ERRE was featured in the 2014 biennial exhibition, Unsettled Landscapes, at SITE Santa Fe and a second book, Monuments: 276 Views of the United States – Mexico Border, is copublished by Radius and the Nevada Museum of Art. Recent exhibition venues include the Phoenix Art Museum, the MCA San Diego and the Mexican Cultural Institute in Washington DC, Oficina de Proyectos Culturales and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.
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