Taylor Chapin: Fever Dreams
Current exhibition
Overview
Quint Gallery is pleased to display Fever Dreams, a recent painting by San Diego-based artist Taylor Chapin at ONE. Known for a growing cast of anonymous individuals concealed in patterned, form-fitting fabrics, Chapin paints ambiguous scenes of them languorously existing in a manufactured mid-century purgatory. In this ongoing practice informed by both modern advertising and contemporary social media influencer culture, Chapin forges an entanglement between the collapsing dichotomies of the real and the artificial, and the valuable and valueless.
Chapin's process begins in her studio, where sitters are photographed wearing full-body spandex costumes. These images serve as a foundation from which she molds the mood, palette, and spatial details of each composition, building high-key and hard-edged graphic imagery, often imprinted with retro patterns of interlocking waves. The resulting work presents seductive, staged environments in which faceless figures perform an affected nonchalance in gestures that echo the curated digital performance of the self.
Taylor Chapin was born and raised in Encinitas, California. She received a BFA in Painting from San Francisco Art Institute in 2016, and graduated with a MFA in Visual Art from University of California San Diego in 2022. She has shown her work at institutions throughout southern California including ICA San Diego, the Oceanside Museum of Art, the San Diego Library and the San Diego Airport. In addition to being the Executive Director of the Murals of La Jolla public art program, she has completed several public-facing murals across San Diego County of her work, in Leucadia, Oceanside, and in La Jolla on campus at UCSD.
Selected Works
