Philip Taaffe at Carolina Nitsch

September 10 - October 28, 2015

Open at Carolina Nitsch Project Room is an exhibition featuring new works by Philip Taaffe. Consistently, Taaffe's work employs elements of silkscreen, collage, stenciling and staining and pulls influences from the Middle East, North Africa and South America. In this body of work he presents a series serpent sculptures, hand-painted and carved out of alabaster, alongside a 10 x 10 foot drawing in which he uses a spiral motif to mirror the serpentine coils. The sculptures represent Taaffe's take on the Mesoamerican diety, Quetzalcoatl, a feathered snake for which the spiraling cross section of a conch shell has often served as a symbol. 

Read more about the exhibition at Carolina Nitsch here.

The limited edition print by Philip Taaffe, commissioned and produced through the Vera List Project is available here.

Above: Philip Taaffe, Hodie Mihi, Cras Tibi (#3/8), 2015, Hand carved Spanish alabaster, poppy seed oil, hand stamped with oil paint. Courtesy of the artist and Carolina Nitsch.