Loring Taoka: ±

Artist Loring Taoka's designs operate in ambiguous and limitless spaces. They balance between chaos and control, sugar-sweet pastels that blend and crescendo into disorienting layers. 

In ±, Taoka immerses a section of the Contemporary Art Gallery in pattern, inviting visitors to leave their expectations and comfort zones behind and fall into a space of illegibility. 

Walking down the hall, visitors can engage with the pattern through moments of optical disruption through the lenses of frosted glass, light boxes, gels, acrylics, and protrusions that pull the pattern off the wall and bring it into the memories, experiences, and personal references of the viewer. ​

Credit: Overview from museum website