Carlye Packer is pleased to present new works by Taylor Marie Prendergast at the Aspen Art Fair, hosted at Hotel Jerome on display, July 29 – August 2, 2025.

In a mixed choir of caressing angels and mythical figures, Prendergast’s work drifts into a dreamy Arcadian realm rendered in ethereal hues and biblical onyx shading. Brawny, genderless cherubs—some with chicanerous grins—offer gentle company, joined by a motley array of four-legged strays.

Prendergast’s compositions invite contemplation of the liminal—where innocence meets mischief, and the sacred blurs into the surreal. Her figures exist in suspension, untethered from time or doctrine, suggesting a cosmology of their own making. Through delicate tension between light and shadow, tenderness and absurdity, the work evokes both comfort and disquiet. These are not mere depictions of divinity or myth, but manifestations of an inner landscape—one that resists resolution and embraces longing as its own kind of grace.

Echoing Francisco Goya’s aquatint technique, Prendergast pulls darkness through subtle gradients to illuminate her subjects, conjuring a velvety, voluminous texture. The wings in her compositions ripple with motion, hinting at an urge for flight, yet remain earthbound—unable to fulfill an ever-present longing for ascension. Like Tantalus, we are tormented by the nearness of bliss, left perpetually yearning.