Peegirl
(Taylor Marie Prendergast)
b. 1990, Palo Alto, CA
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
About
Taylor Marie Prendergast is a Los Angeles-based painter and performance artist. Her work has been included in exhibitions at Felix Art Fair, Dan Graham 3.0, Over the Influence, Chateau Marmont, Taschen Books, Doverstreet Market and Franco Moragrega. She has collaborated with artists such as Jason Al-Taan, Nick Harwood, SOPHIE, Eli Linnetz, and David LaChapell.
Taylor Marie Prendergast uses feelings of attraction and repulsion to create paradoxical dramas that overwhelm and welcome the viewer into a tender chaos. The idea of a “hellish sublime” is in some ways a reflection of the thorny, hectic world we live in—one that promises an illusion of security and happiness amid the fog of terror and chaos. For Prendergast, the most important creative works contain something that instigates conflict, either with the viewer or within the work itself.
Prendergast grew up with a very rigid sense of what heaven and hell meant, and that rigidity yielded a lot of internalized feelings of shame. The dogs began as a way for her to rethink what the gates of hell might look like, a way of rethinking these imposed ideas of negativity, whether they be social or religious impositions. What if these monstrous, mythical dogs were seen as companions? What if they are guardian angels? Toxic, yes, but also vigilant. That’s what makes them exciting. They act as a means by which she can reconsider and play with inherited constructs that actually are quite violent on a day-to-day basis.
Education
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
private mentorship, Joze Ciuha, Sipan, Croatia
Press
https://exhibitiona.com/collections/new-releases/products/four-earthly-strays
https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/review-caesars-palace-at-lvl3/
https://lvl3official.com/taylor-marie-prendergast/
https://flaunt.com/content/taylor-marie-prendergast-only-god-can-judge
http://www.papermag.com/pee-girl-los-angeles-2638405981.html
Exhibitions History
2023
Hat Trick, Rusha & Co., Los Angeles, CA
From LAX to CDG, Stems Gallery, Paris, France
Felix art Fair, Carlye Packer, Los Angeles, CA
West, Wester, Westest, Left Field Gallery Los Osos, CA
Currents, Over the Influence, Los Angeles, CA
2022
A Rendezvous With Destiny, Good Mother Gallery, Los Angels, CA
House Partè II: The Final Sale, Caryle Packer, Palm Springs, CA
1 Degree of Separation, Franchise, Los Angeles, CA2021
2021
Caesar’s Palace, LVL3 Gallery, Chicago, IL
Prima vera, Carlye Packer, Los Angeles, CA
Twisted Dream, John Wolf, Los Angeles, CA
2020
The Cycle of sustain and decay, Tick Tack Gallery, Antwerp, Brussels
2019
This is Fuckin LA, soft core LA, Los Angeles, CA
Before Wilting, Agility, los Angeles, CA
Only God Can Judge, Carlye Packer, Los Angeles, CA
Felix Art Fair, with Carlye Packer, Los Angeles, CA
a ride in the luxury Mercedes, San Diego, CA
2018
Three’s Company, curated by Aaron Winkle, Dan Graham 3.0, Los Angeles, CA
An Homage to Hollis Benton, curated by Aaron Moulton, Over the Influence, Los Angeles, CA
I voted, Greyhound Bus Stop, Santa Ana, CA
UHAUL, Arts District, Los Angeles, CA
the in laws, Oak Park Freeway, Chicago, IL
a dance for the handy man, David LaChapelle Studios, Los Angeles, CA
don’t look at me, Echo Park Lake, Los Angeles, CA
Take me to Dubai with SOPHIE, Brooklyn Steel, Brooklyn, NY
Heaven to hell with David LaChapelle, Teaschen Books, Los Angeles, CA
Dinner in a Thong, Chateau Marmot, Los Angeles, CA
Supermoon, Yeezy, Los Angeles, CA
uh oh, Doverstreet Market, Los Angeles, CA
2017
You catch more files with arsenic than honey, Club Pro Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
The Illusion of Order, Franco Moragrega, San Diego, CA
To Be In Love, Franco Moragrega, San Diego, CA
2008
Homage Egon Schiele, Galeria Jan, La Jolla, CA