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Podcast Interview for the Border Chronicle
October
10, 2024
Record live at the Tin Shed Theater in Patagonia, Arizona.
Noted borderland journalists Melissa del Bosque and Todd Miller interview David Taylor about his work along the border between Mexico and the United States which spans the last fifteen years.
Sponsored by Voices from the Border, Sierra Club Borderlands, Hilltop Gallery, and La Linea Art Studio with special thanks to Maggie Urgo and India Aubry for their organizing efforts.
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DeLIMITations at MCA San Diego
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
July 21, 2016 - November 27, 2016
Opening Reception July 21
DeLIMITations: A Survey of the 1821 United States-Mexico Border
Marcos Ramírez ERRE and David Taylor will exhibit work documenting their 2400 mile-long site specific intervention along the 1821 boundary between Mexico and the United States. The collaborative project is narrated by a thirty-minute documentary film made by José Inerzia.
A chronicle of the trip is available on the project Tumblr page.
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Here and Abroad at the Phoenix Art Museum
PAM Norton Family Photography Gallery May 28, 2016 - October 16, 2016
Gallery Talk August 10
Here and Abroad includes Taylor's full portfolio of monument photographs, installed in numerical order, to form a grid. It also features thirty recent photographs that complement and expand upon the artist’s documentation of the border. Many of the pictures—some of them quite large—were made in the last few of years and enrich the story of Taylor’s experience photographing along the border.
Monuments and DeLIMITations
Projects by Marcos Ramíre ERRE and David Taylor
Nevada Museum of Art, Center for Art+Environment
February 6, 2015 - April, 17, 2016
Monuments and DeLIMITations presents the selections from Taylor's portfolio, Monuments : 276 Veiws of the United States-Mexico Border, one of the markers designed for the mapping project done by ERRE and Taylor, and extensive historical and contemporary materials drawn from the project archives of the Center for Art + Environment Archive Collections.
SITElines: Unsettled Landscapes
SITE Santa Fe July 20, 2014 - January 2015
Opening Festivities July 17-19
SITE Santa Fe announces artists participating in its now biennial exhibition series that explores contemporary art from Nunavut to Tierra del Fuego. Marcos Ramírez ERRE and David Taylor will present new work in the exhibition as a collaborative team.
Border Dynamics Panel Discussion
Thursday, February 27, 2014, 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Tsai Auditorium, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University
Photographer David Taylor, along with practitioners and scholars who work in visual arts, culture, and geography, will participate in a discussion about artistic and cultural exchanges across the United States–Mexico border. With: Daniel Arreola, Professor, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University Tempe; Rubèn Ortiz-Torres, artist, Professor, Department of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego; and Sergio Delgado, Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition David Taylor: Working the Line. on view February 26–May 18, 2014 at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. Organized by Michelle Lamunière, curator of the exhibition and former John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Assistant Curator of Photography, Harvard Art Museums.
Medium Festival of Photography
San Diego, CA
Present Tense Lecture Series
2012 marks the inaugural year of the Medium Festival of Photography, a 3-day photography event with a fresh line up of lectures, workshops, and portfolio reviews. Located in the heart of downtown San Diego, the Medium Festival of Photography celebrates all forms of photography and the creative energy of the photographic community during the only event of its kind in Southern California.
Medium offers engaging lectures by a diverse range of working photographers. Admission to each lecture is included with VIP, Festival Pass, and One Day passes.
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George Eastman House
International Museum of Photography and Film
"Wish You Were Here" Lecture Series
Frontier/Frontera: Border as Place
6pm, Thursday, June 7, 2012
David Taylor’s work reveals the Mexico/U.S. border as a complex, and often contradictory, social, political, and physical topography. His photographic examination is anchored by an ongoing effort to document each of the 276 obelisks that dot the boundary from Juarez/El Paso to Tijuana/San Diego.
All “Wish You Were Here” lectures are in the Dryden Theater at George Eastman House. Admission to each lecture is $6 (free to Eastman House members).
Past, Present, Future: Michael Berman, David Taylor, and Connie Samaras
New Mexico Museum of Art
Curated by Merry Scully
Michael P. Berman, David Taylor and Connie Samaras have all lived and worked in New Mexico and their photographs in this exhibit concentrate on the landscape in and surrounding Southern New Mexico. Their diversity of approach results in three unique and layered sets of images of our desert terrain. This arid land captures time in a fashion that is at once biological, political and hypothetical. A condensation of time is so broad that its only rival for breadth is the sprawl of the site itself. Each of these photographers presents us with a desert landscape that is simultaneously of the present, reflecting the past and hinting at the future.
Silent Sentinels Along a Vast Frontier
From the NY Times Lens Blog:
By Jennifer Hamblet
The frontier is subject and studio for Mr. Taylor, who lives in Las Cruces, N.M., not far from the sister cities of El Paso, Tex., and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico. In the course of his broad exploration of border issues, he set out to photograph 276 obelisk monuments, most erected in the 1890s, that demarcate the international boundary west of El Paso (more at NYTimes.com). From the NY Times Lens Facebook Page:
Marfa Dialogs - Ballroom Marfa
Exhibition, talk and book signing:
David Taylor - Workng the Line
September 17-19, 2010 in Marfa, Texas.
Ballroom Marfa and The Washington Spectator, in collaboration with The Big Bend Sentinel, Marfa Public Radio and Marfa Book Company, will present Marfa Dialogues: Politics and Culture of the Border, three days of art, film, music, and literature. Be part of dynamic conversations with leading journalists, including Charles Bowden and Mark Danner, listen to the poetry of writer Benjamin Alire Sáenz, see the border through the eyes of photographer David Taylor, and dance to the genre-bending sounds of L.A. band La Santa Cecilia.
Center for Land Use Interpretation
Independent interpreter presentation:
David Taylor - Working the Line
Wednesday August 4, 2010 at 7:00 pm at the CLUI Los Angeles location. (Please arrive early, seating is limited.)
This talk is the third in a series of CLUI Independent Interpreter presentations which are part of an ongoing investigation of the nation's political and physical boundaries. The Independent Interpreter program is made possible by the support of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Working the Line
New acquisitions show and book launch.
Images from Working the Line will be on view at the New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe from July 15 through September.
Panel discussion, book signing and opening reception
July, 15 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm in the NMHM auditorium and the Triangle Gallery.
Work is also currently on view at James Kelly Contemporary in Santa Fe.
Copies of Working the Line are available for sale through Radius Books.
PREFIX PHOTO - Issue 21
Images from Working the Line with an essay by Lee Rodney - Border Rituals
Prefix Photo is a publication of the Prefix Institute for Contemporary Art in Toronto, Canada.
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