Eden Taff is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Taff was born in 2000 in Washington, DC and raised in Maryland. She graduated from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study in 2023 with a major in Strategic...
Read MoreEden Taff is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York.
Taff was born in 2000 in Washington, DC and raised in Maryland. She graduated from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study in 2023 with a major in
Strategic Art: The History of Visual Taste and a minor in Studio Art.
Eden began started selling her artwork at age 12 and exhibiting at age 15. Eden’s illustrations were first published in Rookie Magazine in 2016. Her work has been exhibited in New York City, Miami, and the Washington, DC area. Her most recent exhibitions include
Cult of Domesticity at LUmkA and NADA Miami,represented by Lubov.
Taff’s figurative oil paintings capture subjects suspended in time, posed, embracing, staring, their role unclear. This uncertainty creates tension in her work, producing visions that register as film stills or excerpts from dreams. Her process begins with iterative pencil or ink sketches of memories or fantasies inform the composition of each painting. Choreographed marks describe the movement of hair and gestural brushstrokes imply the direction of limbs and the shadows of musculature. Scraping and Layering creates patterns that delineate objects, textiles, and natural elements. Subjects dissolve into brushwork or stand against backdrops like paper cutouts, and settings appear if the space itself is ungrounded. Her practice resists archetypal depictions of women’s bodies in pre-modernist Western art, instead self-representing the female body freed from a lens of desire, sacredness, or morality. Her work investigates how our environment dictates the performance of societal norms and boundaries surrounding how we act and dress.
