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Dream Topography
Art Pieces That Bring Your Dreams Closer
About
Tara Gillespie (b.1983, Baltimore, MD) is an abstract artist with a passion for contemporary art. In 2018 she started mixing her own acrylic paints and experimenting with resin, amongst other materials, and her practice has evolved since. Her studio is based in Timonium, MD.
“Throughout my life I’ve created visual art, films, and written works. However, it wasn’t until I began mixing acrylics and discovered resin that I realized this was the medium I’d been searching for. Fluid art gives me spontaneity, peace, and immediate satisfaction. I think of myself as a paint chemist (having experimented with everything under the kitchen sink in my paint recipes) and my intention as I pour is to let go of my pre-conceived ideas and to be present with the process. In this way, I feel fluid art is a mindful art practice.
Tara reveals her techniques in her studio offering in-person fluid and resin art classes for adults and children. She also offers these classes as an instructor at Manor Mill in Monkton, Maryland. Tara enjoys exhibiting and vending in the fine art and craft festival circuit participating in The Marco Island National Fine Art Show, The Bethesda Fine Art Festival, The Festival of Trees, The American Craft Made Convention, Artscape, the VisArts Rockville Fine Arts Festival, FaerieCon, and The Chevy Chase Fine Art Festival. Upcoming exhibitions/events are announced on this website and on her instagram (@taragill_art) as they are confirmed.
Artist Statement
My work aims to connect our world with the spiritual. Beauty and mindfulness are themes I currently explore as well as energetic interconnectedness. In my process I exploit the properties of paint and resin to make ethereal works that mimic and transcend reality. I call my work “Dream Topography” because I feel my pieces evolve to resemble 3-dimensional maps where the viewer has an aerial view through layers of form in nature including landforms, minerals, water bodies, plant life, cellular structures, and atmosphere. What appears to one observer as a view of the universe may, to another, resemble the hidden worlds revealed beneath a microscope. By capturing both the cosmic and the cellular, my paintings remind us that the vast and the infinitesimally small can evoke the same sense of wonder, and that the same patterns and energy shape galaxies and cells alike. This suggests a deep interconnectedness between all scales of existence.
