Tara Downs

About the Gallery
Tara Downs is dedicated to presenting developments in contemporary art for audiences worldwide. The gallery supports a roster of international artist at all stages in their careers, and hosts forward-thinking, multigenerational programming at its distinctive Broadway location. Beyond this, Tara Downs also promotes large-scale exhibitions, interdisciplinary projects, and collaborations by its artists in museums, biennials, and other exhibition platforms.

About the presentation
Tara Downs will present a solo exhibition of new paintings by Tsai Yun-Ju. Tsai. Tsai creates what she calls “countless oppositions” in her paintings — her practice draws from her training in calligraphy and from traditional Chinese literature, particularly Cao Xueqin’s 18th-century Qing Dynasty novel Dream of the Red Chamber and A Hundred years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez. In each of these literary sagas the boundaries between reality and illusion are porous, and complex literary world-building parallels Tsai’s oscillations between abstract mark-making and representational imagery, depictions of microcosm and macrocosm.