About Eric J. Taubert
Eric J. Taubert is an artist, contemporary fine art photographer, writer, and artist curator who lives in Southwest Florida. He has worked internationally, with an emphasis on his native-region of coastal New England (including a deep connection to the Ogunquit Art Colony), Southwest Florida, and Europe. Taubert’s work has been exhibited in a variety of fine art galleries across the United States, featured in magazines, and is held in many private collections.
Artist Statement
"I'm most-often drawn towards an examination of coastal textures in my work. Weathered wood. Salt-crusted working waterfronts. Seaside dive bars. Residents, workers, and tourists in coastal villages, coves, and harbors. My work is created through the process of a slow, deliberate, and mindful look at the interaction of places near the ocean with the human-made stuff found along these coastline areas.
How do the sun, and the storms, and the salt water have an impact on the dwellings, signs, tools, boats, docks, fishing gear, and gathering places of the people who live in proximity to them?
What truths are revealed through the eclectic encounters that occur in these delicate ecotones where complex tourism-economy pressures ceaselessly collide with the fragile habitats of the native species and day-to-day lives of those who call these heavily-marketed destinations home?
How do tangles of ropes, buoys, driftwood, human-generated debris, beach-town ephemera, and the passage of time all conspire to become part of these nostalgia-drenched and kaleidoscopically-evolving landscapes that speak so loudly to so many of us?"
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My spirits infallibly rise in proportion to the outward dreariness.
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake.