FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 2025

Whistler Contemporary Gallery showcases artist Taylor Smith in meet-and-greet cocktail event this December 

Gray Wolf v2.0 by Taylor Smith Gray Wolf v2.0 Oil, Enamel, Screenprint & Vintage Computer Floppy Disks on Birch Panel 63 x 57 in

Whistler, Canada – Whistler Contemporary Gallery presents artist Taylor Smith for a special meet-and-greet cocktail event and artwork showcase on December 13, 2025, from 4:00 – 6:00 PM at the Hilton Whistler. The artist will be in attendance and will be speaking about her work and practice using mixed media to explore the relationships between technology, pop culture and consumerism. 

Working with salvaged, unrecyclable floppy disks, Smith transforms these once-forgotten relics of technology into dynamic mixed-media paintings. The works on view at Whistler draw from pop art’s historical use of reappropriated images as well as iconography of the natural world to evoke reflections on memory and environmental responsibility. Throughout her practice, Smith’s work brings the past into the present to ask important questions about the intersection of the digital world and lived experience and the ways in which objects—especially those containing anonymous information—become charged with meaning over the course of time. 

Event Details

Date: December 13
Time: 4:00–6:00 PM
Location: Hilton Whistler
RSVP: HERE 

About Taylor Smith

Taylor Smith is a multimedia artist whose work examines discarded technology, popular culture and consumerism. 

Smith uses a wide variety of materials and mediums, including reclaimed silk screen frames, luxury brands and commercial packaging, 8mm film, street advertisements, reappropriated paintings, and, more recently, floppy diskettes. Throughout her many bodies of work, Smith recontextualizes evocative and recognizable imagery to explore social awareness through abstraction and figuration with elements of science and technology, traditional still life and portraiture.

Smith has exhibited in North America and Europe, and she has works in many high profile collections, including the Eli Lilly permanent collection, the Madeleine Albright collection, the Cleve Carney Museum of Art and many others.

She currently lives and works in Indianapolis, IN. 

Website: https://www.abstractmodern.com
Instagram: @taylorsmithstudio