Through a hybrid drawing-painting practice that mirrors the tempo and allure of editorial imagery, artist Hannah Taurins builds a personal archive of unmoored pictorial vessels. The works, with subjects culled from a variety of sources from fashion to cinema, as well as amalgams of her own making, transcend their origins in a purposive visual obliteration. Staccato line work abuts fields of saturated gouache, details focus and recede all in service of Taurins’ meta-dialogue between high art and its supposed antitheses. The agency this endeavor affords the artist is also central, where implicit references to a gendered history of images in art and beyond give way to a powerful assertion of objectivity. Taurins’ work gleefully straddles the line between inspiration and ambivalence, import and camp; these vessels carry a new proposal for imagistic desire.

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Hannah Taurins (b. 1997, Houston, Texas, lives and works in New York). She received a BFA from Cooper Union, New York. Recent solo exhibitions include: Tureen, Dallas (2026); Theta, New York (2025); Chateau Shatto, Los Angeles (2023); Brant-Timonier, Palm Beach (2023); and Theta, New York (2022). Select group exhibitions include: Theta, New York (2026); Hans Goodrich, Chicago (2026); American Art Projects x Jeffrey Deitch, Miami; Adler Beatty, New York; American Art Projects, Berlin; High Art, Paris (all 2025); High Art, Seoul, KR (2024); Amanita, New York (2023); Shoot the Lobster, New York; Venus Over Manhattan, New York; In Lieu, Los Angeles; and Entrance, New York (all 2022).

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