Taisha Hutchison - "A Recent Survey", Wellington

Taisha Hutchison - "A Recent Survey", Chaffers Gallery, Wellington

Born in Melbourne Australia to New Zealand parents. Taisha grew up in Auckland, where she studied at both Elam School of Fine Arts, graduating from Elam with the Scott Elery Medal. Her tutors at Elam included leading New Zealand artists, Greer Twiss, Derrick Cherrie and Christine Hellyer. Following her work at Elam, Ms. Hutchison applied for postgraduate study in England and the US and was accepted into both Goldsmiths, London and to Yale’s School of Art.

During completion of the Masters at Yale, Taisha had the experience of studying Architectural History with Vincent Scully, Sculpture with Jessica Stockholder and worked for the LeWitt Collection of Sol LeWitt. Taisha has exhibited at the Auckland War Memorial Museum, New Zealand, The University of Auckland School of Architecture, the Auckland Maritime Museum, Lopdell House and at Teststrip Gallery and in America, The Gallery at Lincoln Center, New York and Avery Fisher Hall. "Disintegrating Houses" were selected for the Stamford Museum and Nature Center's, "Artists Play House," curated by Deborah Schwartz of The Museum of Modern Art, Joe Thompson, Director of Mass MoCA and Donald Albrecht. The Aldrich Museum's “Snapshot” curated by Jessica Hough, included Hutchison's photography, as did "Y2K", travelling between Rutgers University School of Art and the Maryland Institute.

Completing her Masters was the "Thesis Exhibition," held at Yale University Art and Architecture Gallery and following her post-graduation work, "Landmark(s)", a solo exhibit featured at Saatchi & Saatchi, New York and Group Exhibitions for Gallery Onetwentyeight and the Federal Reserve Bank, New York. Her recent "Zig" Paintings began by melding two disparate forms, a Ziggurat and an Igloo-like form, disparate geographically and formally, yet possible through her use of paint.

The Recent Survey at Chaffers Gallery, encompasses a body of work completed during the past decade, both in New Zealand and the United States. The Landmark paintings stem from a place visited whilst a student at Yale, where Taisha found a small white land marker, delineating a construction site where New Haven, Connecticut's public water supply derived. More recently Taisha has utilized simple emblems, transient in reading, whether a fish form, formed like a rocket or a simple Japanese light, painted to emulate a UFO form, these simple common denominators have captured the artist's imagination.

It is clear her aptitude stems in her breadth of interest and her facilitation of Painting, Drawing, Photography and Sculpture. The sole sculpture incorporated into her survey is the Artist’s Proof, hand cast bronze, flag form, made by The Hudson Valley, New York Foundry, Tallix.

The Exhibition runs until Wednesday, September 16, 2009.