The Gallatin Galleries

Origins and Destinations – Ashley Taylor Dart

About the Show

Lucas Lovejoy

Ashley Taylor Dart

Badlands (September 2020)

Once a shallow sea
Soft eroded sediment
The edge of the world

Photograph yellow plains with a dusk sky in the background — Dakota

Close up photograph of rock formations — Badland

Distant photography of the prairie — Prarie

Pinnacles (November 2020)

Sculpted by eruptions
Fields of tall spires
Soar amongst the condors

Photograph of rock formations interspersed with trees and greenery — Volcanic

Photograph of rock pinnacles with snowy mountains in the background — Pinnacles

Yellowstone (November 2020)

Movement of the tectonics
Created volcanic craters
Erected mountains

Up close photograph of a hot spring — Springs

Photograph of where rocks meet the ocean — West

Photograph of a landscape of pink and blue with clouds rolling over — Prismatic

Photograph of cracked earth — Paint Pots

Horseshoe Bend (November 2020)

Petrified sand into stone
Jagged slopes
Flowing, energetic waterways

Photograph of a river running through rock formations — Horseshoe

Photograph of a body of water alongside a shoreline — Page

Grand Canyon (November 2020)

Carved out by rivers
The great chasm
United by vibrant forms and chromas

Photograph of immense rock formations in the Grand Canyon — Ridges

Great Sand Dunes (November 2020)

Blown together
The sand that moves back and forth
Protected by white shell mountain

Photograph of sand dunes — Dunes

Cape Hatteras (November 2020)

Storms and seas
Always eroding
The low lying land

Up close photograph of ridges in the earth — Traces

Photograph of a silhouette of a mountain with a sunset in the background — Hatteras

Photograph of a blue and pink sky — Inlet Skies

Antelope Canyon (November 2020)

Where water runs through rocks
Creates spirals
And slot canyons

Up close photograph of a canyon rock wall — Pronghorn

Up close photograph of sandstone — Sandstone

Headshot of a woman leaning on a white wall behind her

Inspired and curious by the world around her, Ashley Taylor Dart’s (BA ’21) work seeks to capture the hidden corners of reality. Her art abstracts the rural and urban landscapes while evoking the raw emotions within her subjects. Passionate about the environment and social justice issues, Ashley hopes to instigate change with her work. Having grown up in both Princeton, NJ and Chatham, MA, Ashley moved to New York to complete her concentration in The Cultural and Political Effects of Visual Storytelling with a focus in gender and sexuality.

Land Acknowledgement The Gallatin Galleries is located on the traditional territory of the Lenni-Lenape, called “Lenapehoking.” The Lenape People lived in this territory in harmony for thousands of years. During the colonial era and early federal period, many were removed, but some also remain among the historical tribal communities of the region. We acknowledge the Lenni-Lenape as the original people of this land and their continuing relationship with their territory and we affirm the aspiration of the Lenape Chief Tamanend, that there be harmony between the Indigenous people of this land and the descendants of the immigrants to this land.