Window Dressing XXIX: Taylor Holland
Image: Taylor Holland, German Neo-Rococo Naturalistic Style (1840-1850), Gold leaf, wood, paint, composite, 2014.
Exhibition Dates: Aug 7th - Aug 14th, 2023 (visible 24 hours/day)
Artist Reception: Friday, Aug 11th, 8 - 10pm
Utilizing the intricate craft of frame making in the context of contemporary art, antique frames are filled with their own content using custom molds built from digital processes.
An idea born at the Louvre in Paris, Fra[mes] is a collaboration between algorithm, artist, and master craftsman which bridges the gap between digital media and old-world techniques, while giving the computer an equal hand in the creative process.
These frames – dating from 1750-1850 – were selected from the collection of Guy Sainthill, a master frame maker and restorer based in Haarlem, Netherlands, who works closely with the Rijksmuseum and Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. They were then digitally photographed, and an algorithm was employed, which gave the artist an unlimited number of bitmapped possibilities for how the frame might fill itself with its own ornamentation. After the final design was chosen, the individual pieces were meticulously molded and fused together, then gilded and burnished, into entirely new artworks which replicate the physical and aesthetic properties of the original frames.
The results are one-of-a-kind, meta-visual artworks which closely approximate the digital model, bind the frames to themselves, and draw attention to the ongoing craft of frame making.
Taylor Holland (b.1971) is an American artist exploring the nexus of technological domains and physical reality through sculpture, painting, photography, video, net.art, screenshots, and artificial intelligence. His work has been exhibited in France, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Croatia, Israel, and the United States, and featured by Instagram, CNN, VICE, It’s Nice That, and L’Oeil, among others. In addition to his art practice, he is a faculty member at the Paris College of Art.
