^ AIN'T-BAD ^ | "Archetypal" Project
^ INTERSECTIONS: CONSIDERING IMBALANCE ^ | Kahilu Theatre in Waimea/Kamuela, HI
^ The first written by Aline Smithson ^ | The States Project
Tara Cronin is an artist working in various mediums focusing on alternative photographic methods, works on paper, installation and book-arts. She has pursued an art career that has both helped her solve problems in her own internal space as well as in the space she finds herself situated externally. Tara received a BA in Writing from New School University, and an MFA in Photography from Bard College and the ICP-Bard Program, and has Twice-earned the ICP Director’s Fellowship Award.
During her graduate and post-graduate work, Tara explored this interface between the material and the individual by making photographically-based work involving images or prints combined with materials such as reconstituted hemoglobin and chlorophyllin as well as with dust and with liquid metals. She holds various co-patents with partner and scientist Ed Chen including one on a unique polymer made from those materials used in her artwork, which after scientific research demonstrated itself to be the first synthetic membrane able to remove CO2 directly from air and convert it into useful liquids. This resulted in a solo show in the Museo de la Ciudad in Querétaro, Mexico in 2012, and later an invitation to be a guest-speaker and exhibition participant at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington DC. Having exhibited throughout New York City, North America and Internationally, Tara's most recent exhibitions include participation in the MT. ROKKO PHOTO FESTIVAL in Kobe, Japan, and a 6-person exhibition with PHOTO DISTRICT NEWS at Foley Gallery in New York, NY.
Through working with the methods she does, Tara also works entrepreneurially and hopes to promote the idea of Science and Art as being symbiotic. Tara has worked on multiple startups with partner and scientist Ed Chen attempting to transform traditional skepticism of climate change through their technologies, while also promoting the relevance of Art and Science. Tara and Ed recently embarked on piloting their agricultural technology on the oldest certified Organic coffee farm in Kona Hawai'i in Summer 2015 and Tara is proud to be two years into her experience as a junior-master-roaster. You can find their farm and coffee at Rooster Farms. In Fall 2014 Tara released the books of three artists co-published with Schilt Publishing and with Magical Thinking Publications, an arts-publication and education organization she co-founded with business partner and artist Joshua Lutz.
Tara also hosted her co-founded project of the "Fred Talks - Ted Talks with Friends" for a number of years; a monthly lecture series amongst neighbors and peers that includes discussions on the arts, sciences, and any topic in between. She is happy and grateful to have joined the Board of Directors at SKEA, Society for Kona's Education & Art, in 2016 in Kona, HI.
Tara is nomadic, working primarily between New York City, New Jersey, and Hawaii in the United States.
There are places we know that are part of what we call Home. Sometimes these place are a When, sometimes a memory. We all have visited these Places; they surround our daily lives, daily environments & psyches. If I walked through such a place that is here and yet nowhere, I would find that, in the end, it is a Place that has been with me the entire time, and one that I will also never truly find::
Completed 2010
Completed 2008
Completed 2005
"SANGRE DE ARBOL, SANGRE DE MI," Solo Exhibition Curated by Azucena German
2010“F l i g h t: From, To, and Within,” Solo Thesis Exhibition.
Interviewee, Author and Project Editor for 'The States Project" Hawaii; Series of Articles
2016Presentation with the NY Photo Salon
2013"THE ART OF SCIENCE POLICY," Guest Speaker with Ed Chen for the 40th Anniversary of the S&T Policy Fellowship Program; Event in conjunction with Group Exhibition
2011Gallery Talk in conjunction with "EMERGING LANDSCAPE" Exhibition
2010"Politico Pop Up3”
"Spectrum 5”
"Everything We Do is Music”
"International Center of Photography & Minny Lee Fine Art - Bookmaking Masterclass”
"Art of the Book”
"Intersections: Considering Imbalance”
2017“HONOLULU PRINTMAKERS” Artist's Print & Book Fair
"INTERNATIONAL JURIED EXHIBITION" Juried by Philip Brookman
"HAWAI'I CONTEMPORARY ARTS EXHIBIT," Invited Artist
“AWAKE! READING ROOM,” Artist's Book Fair. With 10x10 Photobooks
"ISOLATION," Curated by Linda Connor
"PHOTOESPANA Photo Festival"
“AWAKE! READING ROOM,” Artist's Book Fair. With 10x10 Photobooks
"Athens Photo Festival 2015 PERMANENT ARCHIVE: Photobook Show"
“AWAKE! READING ROOM,” Artist's Book Fair. With 10x10 Photobooks
2016"ICP SPOTLIGHTS"
"REVIEW SANTA FE"
"NY ART BOOK FAIR"
"THE FUTURE PERFECT"
"THE FUTURE PERFECT"
"MT. ROKKO PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL"
"PDN's THE CURATOR”
"FOTOFEST”
2015"NY ART BOOK FAIR”
"OUR WORLD PORTFOLIO REVIEW”
"THE PHOTOBOOK EXHIBITION"ATHENS PHOTOFESTIVAL
"THE NEW UNCONSCIOUS," Curated by Danielle Kalamaras
2014"REVIEW SANTA FE”
"NY ART BOOK FAIR”
2013“I’LL BE YOUR MIRROR: NAVIGATING INTERACTION IN THE DIGITAL AGE,” Curated by the Scrapped Team
"THE ART OF SCIENCE POLICY,” Curated by Olga Francois
Work Included in Annual Fundraiser Exhibition, Auction, and Gala
"NY ART BOOK FAIR”
2012Work Included in Exhibition/Silent Auction
"REFLECTION”
"NY ART BOOK FAIR”
"A VALUATION,” 7-Person Exhibition Curated by Alexander Clark & Friends
Work Included with Pictura Gallery
“CCNY ZINE AND SELF-PUBLISHED PHOTO BOOK FAIR”
2011Annual Fundraiser Exhibition, Auction, and Gala
“SIGNATURE TUNES," 3-Person Exhibition Curated Liz Kwon
“NATURE WITHIN,” Group Exhibition Curated by Minny Lee
3-Person Open Studio
“EMERGING LANDSCAPE,” Curated by Anna di Stasi
2-Person Exhibition Curated by Mia Dalglish
“LOVE IS A RIVER,” Curated by Marla Leigh Caplan
Work Included with Pictura Gallery
"NY ART BOOK FAIR”
2010"NY ART BOOK FAIR”
“NATURE WITHIN,” Curated by Minny Lee
“EXQUISITE LANDSCAPE,” Curated by Marla Leigh Caplan
“COLLECTIVE SHOWING I” Curated Film/Video Festival
“BLOOMSDAY,” Curated by Lori Grinker
MFA Group Thesis Exhibition Curated by Joshua Lutz
Open Studios Year 2
2009Open Studios Year 1
2008“REFLECT,” 1-Year Program Final Group Exhibition Curated by Robert Blake
2007Group Exhibition
A study in exercising a reminder that an intuitive knowledge we often forget to listen to, a language – the language of Myth – is interwoven throughout the fabric of our experience and is the spiritual glue that lets us solve our life-problems and have a lifePath. The word “spiritual” here is not used in a grandiose nor inaccessible way — this language can manifest in a childhood rhyme as much as an ancient tale. It is simply a means by which we understand our world and our path through it over the years of our lifetime.
..It’s a foundation on which to build an understanding and appreciation of the one world we have, our ‘Pale Blue Dot’ – and everything within it. I love this seemingly stark contrast between the world of the anatomical, and that of the emotional/spiritual/psychological - the world of our daily experience. We all seem to have an unspoken agreement to almost ignore this duality, because to bring it to the forefront might be to shatter our reality.
..It is something innate in every human’s artillery — conscious or not — of tools needed to get by day by day, year by year, to wade through this Thing called Life. Each image extracts and borrows from long-existing tales and characters and creatures from cultural histories around the globe; I then layer over those ‘remnants’ what I have found within the histories that remain still recorded amongst us, a layer of this Language, our Rhythm.
" A Wounded Deer Leaps the Highest "
Archival Pigment Prints on Rice Paper, Cyanotype Prints on Gampi Paper, Gauze, Medical Tape, Paper Cranes made from Medical Warning Labels, Medical Bottles & Caps. Soundtrack from Nobuo Uematsu.
Etymology of a game, process, tool --- the devices we create in order to deal with and understand the world and our role within it. VIDEO WORKS: YgolomytEtymology, 2009 There, 2009 Fasin's Last Day, 2009
5.5 x 6.5 x .75," 58pp Full Book Dummy, Web-v.
..it is not capable of ‘either/or,’ because each relies on the other to exist, in symbiosis. In this way I feel our consciousness/unconscious-ness is similar..
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^ Happy Birthday to the late and passionate writer, lover-of-life, and instigator, Chun Sook Hee, who would..
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..The doctor stated, 'Courage in women is often mistaken for insanity.' Suffrage was passed 3 years later.
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:: Home is not where you are, it is who you're with ::
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~ ' Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts ' ~
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From the exquisite corpse to miraculous cellular-level regenerative healing to a simple love and appreciation of our one Life, our world, our Humanity; ..
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