Tender Balance
sculptures, tapestries and paintings by Tara Daly
Tara Daly, Slipsing, ceramic, 18 x 14 x 14”
October 11–November 8
My sculptures reflect the terror of falling apart, and my textiles and paintings are attempts at mending and repair. My sculptures are grounded in corporeal experience and the physicality of breakdown. I make paintings of geometric shapes that have a spiritual feeling, like diagrams of balance and connection. Symmetry plays into that, reflecting that there is an opposite and equal effect from each cause. Making these works is a receptive, intuitive process, and a striving for harmony. Through this interplay of destruction and restoration, my art seeks to dance with fragility and resilience.
Tara Daly is a California artist who makes sculptures, paintings and textiles in material driven processes that explore power, collapse and connection. She has exhibited at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Richmond Arts Center, Museum of Craft and Design, Contemporary Craft Center among other non-profit art centers and galleries nationally. A graduate of the Santa Monica College of Design, Art and Architecture and the San Francisco Art Institute, Tara has been an artist in residence at Anderson Ranch Center for the Arts, Penland School of Crafts, the Santa Fe Art Institute and was a recipient of Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center.