Kāryn Taylor
In her large-scale installations and self-illuminating wall-based sculptures, Kāryn Taylor manipulates light, form and shadow to challenge perception.
Kāryn Taylor is a contemporary artist. Born in 1969, she lives in Māpua, Nelson.
Kāryn manipulates materials, light, form and shadow to challenge our perception of the structures that ground our reality. Her practice is informed by geometric abstraction, which stems from her interest in quantum physics. Kāryn is interested in the idea that we are twisting reality on a moment-by-moment basis. Are we creating our world by consciousness alone, as quantum physics seems to suggest? If we know that everything is made up of energy and a lot of empty space, why or how are objects so convincingly solid?
To Kāryn, geometric abstraction is a language that has the ability to express complicated non-sensical ideas in a more logical way. She feels that geometry, along with colour, has a strong and clear energy structure, a kind of embedded coding that the viewer can pick up on at some level. Kāryn produces self-illuminating light boxes, shadow boxes and multi-dimensional drawings. The light boxes are intense in colour with their glowing lines of light defying logic. They are analogue, glowing without power. Their illumination is striking, convincing many that there must be some kind of hidden mechanism or light source. The shadow boxes are more subtle and ephemeral; they use shades of grey to elicit three dimensional geometric forms. The drawings are made up of painted lines, steel rods and animated projection, combining moving and static lines in an attempt to push the work beyond three dimensions.
Kāryn Taylor
Static object Infinate event
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Plus 1
15 May - 7 Jun 2025Jhana Millers presents Plus 1, a group exhibition where a selection of gallery artists each invite a creative companion to exhibit alongside them.Read more -
Kāryn Taylor, Wave Particle Circle Square
20 Mar - 12 Apr 2025Jhana Millers presents new work by Kāryn TaylorRead more -
Kāryn Taylor, Applied Geometry
3 - 26 Aug 2023Jhana Millers Gallery is please to present their sixth solo exhibition with Kāryn Taylor, Applied GeometryRead more
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FIVE
7 - 29 Jul 2023Jhana Millers is pleased to present a group exhibition of work by the gallery's represented artists to celebrate the gallery's 5th anniversaryRead more -
Summer Selection
25 Jan - 11 Feb 2023Jhana Millers reopens for 2023 with a selection of works by gallery artists.Read more -
Kāryn Taylor, Fuzzy Logic
21 Jul - 13 Aug 2022Kāryn manipulates materials, light, form and shadow to challenge our perception of the structures that ground our reality. Her practice is informed by geometric abstraction, which stems from her interest...Read more -
Kāryn Taylor, Static Object Infinite Event
14 Oct - 6 Nov 2021Kāryn Taylor, Static Object Infinite Event. Exhibition at Jhana Millers Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand.Read more
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Group Exhibition, THE BIG THREE
9 - 31 Jul 2021Group Exhibition, THE BIG THREE. Exhibition at Jhana Millers Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington, Aotearoa New ZealandRead more -
Kāryn Taylor, Impossible Logic
5 - 28 Nov 2020Kāryn Taylor Impossible Logic. Exhibition at Jhana Millers Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington, Aotearoa New ZealandRead more -
Erica van Zon, Kāryn Taylor, Moniek Schrijer, New Work
6 - 21 Dec 2019New work by three of our gallery artists, Erica van Zon, Kāryn Taylor and Moniek Schrijer.Read more -
Group Exhibition, ONE
15 - 27 Jul 2019Group exhibition, ONE. Exhibition at Jhana Millers Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington, Aotearoa New ZealandRead more
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Kāryn Taylor, How to Construct Your Universe
5 Apr - 4 May 2019Kāryn Taylor, How to construct your Universe. Exhibition at Jhana Millers Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand.Read more
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The Gates, Inaugural Exhibition
7 Jul - 4 Aug 2018Group Exhibition, The Gates. Exhibition at Jhana Millers Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington, Aotearoa New ZealandRead more
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Blurring the Line: The Art of Kāryn Taylor
Edward Hanfling, June 17, 2023 -
Kāryn Taylor, Static Object Infinite Event
Lachlan Taylor, Exhibition essay, March 24, 2022 -
Kāryn Taylor’s Cast Acrylic Light Works
John Hurrell, EyeContact, April 10, 2021 -
Light and Lines
Claire O'Loughlin, ArtZone Issue 82, June 1, 2019 -
The Observer Effect on Karyn Taylor
Lucinda Bennett, Art New Zealand, December 1, 2018 -
Taylor’s Moving (and moved around) Diagram
John Hurrell, EyeContact, April 28, 2018 -
An Interview with Kāryn Taylor
Contemporary HUM, September 22, 2017 -
Taylor’s Leaning Quadrilaterals
John Hurrell, EyeContact, March 8, 2017 -
Collecting and Emitting Light
John Hurrell, EyeContact, August 5, 2015 -
Outdoor Sculpture in Devonport
John Hurrell, EyeContact, November 16, 2014 -
Rob Garrett Curator, Project 015: Karyn Taylor
Rob Garrett, April 7, 2014 -
Thinking in the Abstract
Glen Snow, EyeContact, October 23, 2013 -
Eight Elam Students
John Hurrell, EyeContact, August 27, 2013 -
Dunedin Fringe
Nigel Benson, Otago Daily Times, May 22, 2008 -
Invited Artists show a Fine Realism
James Dignan, Otago Daily Times, May 15, 2008
