I wanted to build something that was going to engulf the viewer. You will become a part of it as part of an empowerment process. Visually, I grew up not feeling empowered by looking at a lot of art and now, as a semi-grown-up, it’s nice to think about prefacing the power of the audience as a part of building an experience.
The contemporary conceptual artist Tavares Henderson Strachan revolves his practice around the intersection of art, science, and politics. Working within different media, the artist reinserts people of colour into the historical narrative, making sure that traditionally marginalised figures and narratives are remembered.
Working as an artist and thinking about limitation as materiality—thinking about the edges of the island as a way to process and manage creative practice—has been a very important survival skill. I think the idea that we can shift modalities of communication and language structures is a really important skill for the future
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Tavares Henderson StrachanColour Supplement (Encyclopedia Series), 2019Mylar pigment spray paint acrylic oil stick enamel vinyl grapAll 3 sides: 152 cm | 59 3/4 in
framed: 175 x 151 x 5 cm | 59 1/2 x 69 x 2 in
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Tavares Henderson StrachanThere Were People There (Encyclopedia Series), 2019Mylar pigment spray paint acrylic oil stick enamel vinyl graphite152 x 152 cm
59 13/16 x 59 13/16 in
All 3 sides: 152 cm | 59 3/4 in
framed: 175 x 151 x 5 cm | 59 1/2 x 69 x 2 in
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Tavares Henderson StrachanLittle Sister (Encyclopedia Series), 2019Mylar pigment spray paint acrylic oil stick enamel vinyl graphite plexi91.44 x 91.44 x 5.08 cm
36 x 36 x 2 in
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Tavares Strachan Makes an Entrance
Carnagie Museum of Pittsburg 30.12.2018By Christina Rouvalis The 57th edition of the Carnegie International is front and center, thanks to two show-stopping works on the exterior of Carnegie Museums’...Read more -
TAVARES STRACHAN’S DESERT EXPLOSION
Interview Magazine 3.3.2017By Matt Mullen for Interview Magazine Along a desert road in Rancho Mirage, California, Tavares Strachan, the 37-year-old multidisciplinary artist, has installed some 290 craters...Read more -
Los Angeles Times: Desert X aims to be the Coachella of the art world
Los Angeles Times 23.2.2017Deborah Vankin for the Los Angeles Times - 23 Febuary 2017 This could be the moon. Or Mars, at dusk. Dozens of craters crowd this...Read more -
An Artful Ode to an Undersung Chemist
The New York Times 30.5.2015Ann Binlot for The New York Times - 6 November 2015 As a child growing up in Nassau in the ’80s, the installation artist Tavares...Read more -
Artist Tavares Strachan on the neon barge that lights Prospect.3
The Advocate 16.11.2014Prospect.3 barge piece reminds viewers of river’s force in N.O. By John D'Addario for The Advocate In the two weeks since it was unveiled to...Read more -
Prospect.3 Trains Its Eye Provocatively on the Art World’s Social Failings
Artnet 30.10.2014The show is a crossroads for art to gauge itself against real-world problems. Christian Viveros-Fauné , October 29, 2014 “Somewhere and not Anywhere.” That’s the...Read more -
New Naturalists
RISDxyz 30.7.2014By Frankie Latour for RISDxyz - summer 2014 During his last year at RISD, Tavares Strachan 03 GL set out to make a piece about...Read more -
If Seeing Is Believing, a Panorama of Truth
The New York Times 14.6.2014By Roberta Smith for The New York Times - 14 June 2014 The Queens Museum has a big advantage when it comes to the familiar...Read more