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The Tensions of Visual Creativity, in Philip Taaffe.

Text by Kay Heymer, Brooks Adams, Markus Bruderlin, Holger Broeker, Philip Taaffe. Philip Taaffe: Opere recenti/Recent Work.Texts by Alan Jones.Painting Abstraction: New Elements in Abstract Painting. Philip Taaffe: Works On Paper New York, Gagosian Gallery.Philip Taaffe: Unveilings Bologna, MAGI’ 900.Philip Taaffe: Anima Mundi Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art.Philip Taaffe: Drawings and Paintings Jablonka Galerie/Jablonka Pasquer Projects, Cologne New Paintings, Böhm Chapel, Huerth.Philip Taaffe: Paintings. Köln: Galerie Jablonka. Decade: Contemporary Collecting 2002-2012, Buffalo, NY: The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 2012, p. Grachos, Louis, Douglas Dreishpoon and Heather Pesanti.Philip Taaffe: Recent Paintings and Drawings Aspen, Baldwin Gallery.Between the Lines: A Coloring Book of Drawings by Contemporary Artists.Wilson, Peter Lamborn and Jack Hirschman.Philip Taaffe: L’Envoi (Texts by the artist).Trento, Italy: Studio d’Arte Raffaelli Milan: Luca Tommasi Arte Contemporanea, 2015. Philip Taaffe presently works and lives in New York City, and West Cornwall, Connecticut. In 2008 the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg organized a retrospective survey, The Life of Forms in Art: Paintings 1980-2008, with a publication by Hatje Cantz, featuring contributions by Markus Brüderlin, Holger Broeker, Kay Heymer, and Brooks Adams. In 2004 the Galleria d’Arte Moderna in San Marino (Italy) presented a survey of paintings and drawings based on the artist’s explorations with floating pigments and the paper marbling process, accompanied by the Skira publication, Carte annuvolate (Cloud Papers) with esssays by Peter Lamborn Wilson and John Yau. In 2001 an extensive survey of his work was presented by the Galleria Civica of Trento, Italy (with texts by Vittoria Coen and Francesco Pellizzi). In the year 2000, the IVAM museum in Valencia organized a retrospective survey of his work, with contributions by Enrique Juncosa, Robert Rosenblum, and Robert Creeley. His work is in numerous public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York the Philadelphia Museum of Art the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Reina Sofia, Madrid. In 1990 his work was the subject of an extensive critical study in Parkett no. He has been included in numerous museum exhibitions, including the Carnegie International, two Sydney Biennials, and three Whitney Biennials. Taaffe lived and worked in Naples from 1988-91. He has traveled widely in the Middle East, India, South America, and Morocco, where he collaborated with Mohammed Mrabet on the book Chocolate Creams and Dollars, translated by Paul Bowles (Inanout Press, New York: 1993). His first solo exhibition was in New York in 1982. PHILIP TAAFFE was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey in 1955, and studied at the Cooper Union in New York. Philip Taaffe in the studio, 2000 © Chris Felver
