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Taylor Smith Debuts New “Floppy Diskette” Paintings at Park City Fine Art Gallery - PR for Artists

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March 2024

Taylor Smith Debuts New “Floppy Diskette” Paintings at Park City Fine Art Gallery

Celestial Freestyle v2.7 – Experts Only, 2024, mixed media, 63 x 57 inches

Park City, UT – Multimedia artist Taylor Smith debuts new paintings at Park City Fine Art Gallery, on view at Pando Fine Art 444 Main Street, Park City, UT, 84060. 

Drawing from pop art’s historical use of reappropriated images, Smith’s new paintings turn salvaged, unrecyclable floppy diskettes from landfills into paintings that explore the visual lexicon of popular culture, time, and nostalgia. These paintings recontextualize our understanding of obsolete technology and the anonymous information they contain, bringing the past into the present moment to ask important questions about our digital identities and the materiality of contemporary painting. 

Celestial Freestyle v2.7 – Experts Only, 2024, mixed media, 63 x 57 inches (detail)

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