CALEB TAYLOR: CLOSING THE LOOP

A solo booth at the Door County Contemporary Art Fair

Presented by Special Effects, Kansas City

June 4 - 7, 2026

Closing the Loop is a solo presentation of Kansas City-based artist Caleb Taylor and features

collaged photographs, wallpaper, and sculptures designed specifically for the Door County

Contemporary Art Fair. Taylor uses painting, installation, sculpture, collage and photography to

understand constructed environments, the history of place, perceptual abstraction, and site.

Recent projects include collaborative projections, painting installations across building facades,

and architectural interventions with monumental photographs.

Special Effects is bringing together investigations from the range of Taylor’s practice, creating an

exhibition of works that are distinct in their content and informing and sampling one another. For the

works on view, Taylor uses photography and collage to create deceptive spaces made from the

documentation of folded paper, painted wood and ceramic forms. With an awareness of how aligned

edges, shapes and colors create perceptual phenomena, his use of shifting perspectives give

dimension to abstractions that continually expand in depth and collapse to flatness. Taylor’s

wallpaper installation covers the venue to change senses of space and profile, becoming

background to other works. Together, the resulting shifts in light, architectonic form, and shadow

create fractured geometries to mediate the complex dualities of images and objects, representation

and abstraction, perception and understanding, fact and fiction, building and rebuilding.

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Taylor sees the gallery as a venue for building, a connection between secondary sites and ideas, and

a meditation on place merging exterior and interior investigations. The wallpaper installation is the

third in a series of ongoing site responses using photo fragments from the conSTRUCT collages. The

pattern is arranged from hundreds of softly draped, geometric prints, creating a subtly sculptural

surface of overlapping planes across the walls. These installations reference the occupation of his

mother, a paper hanger, and examine familial labor and site in personal and poetic ways.