December 5th, 2024
Messis No. 2 (Ask Now the Beasts) is now part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Photographic Arts @ The San Diego Museum of Art. Meaning “harvest” in Latin, this image will be on view at a monumental scale in my exhibition Ask Now the Beasts, opening in January at Fitchburg Art Museum.
November 15th, 2024
My work has been featured in Aspect Initiative, an online gallery by Steven Duede and Jessica Roscio.
Tara Sellios’ work is a contemporary foray into impossible beauty. Using images, symbols, and iconography from religious altarpieces and vanitas scenes, she manifests “melancholic themes with beauty, precision, and seduction.” Her compositions are intense and they are often grotesque, containing elements that Sellios elegantly combines to capture the viewer’s attention. They involve months of planning—sketching, painting, building—all before the photograph is taken, edited, printed, and framed.
Jessica Roscio, Ph.D
Director and Curator, Danforth Art Museum
September 24th, 2024
I am thrilled to announce my first solo museum exhibition, Tara Sellios | Ask Now the Beasts at Fitchburg Art Museum. The show will consist of large scale photographs, preliminary sketches and a selection of various sculptural objects used to create the images.
Tara Sellios | Ask Now the Beasts
Opens January 18th, 2025
Fitchburg Art Museum is excited to announce our upcoming exhibition, Tara Sellios | Ask Now the Beasts. Tara Sellios is a Boston based artist whose monumental photographs highlight the beauty of the grotesque. Sellios creates still life vignettes from organic materials including animal bones, insect specimens, and dried flowers which she photographs using a large format 8 X 10 camera. Printed at a large scale, Sellios’s photographs capture the vivid details of her materials. Sellios’s imagery takes inspiration from Christian devotionals including illuminated manuscripts, altarpieces, and stained glass windows while engaging with historical traditions of still life painting, particularly Dutch vanitas paintings. Sellios’s series, Ask Now the Beasts, derives its title from the Book of Job, exploring the concepts of the harvest and the apocalypse. In this new work Sellios considers the cyclical nature of Earth, intertwining symbols of death and references to life with the beauty of decay. Tara Sellios | Ask Now the Beasts opens at the Fitchburg Art Museum, January 18, 2025 and runs through the end of the year.
The opening celebration will be February 8, 2025 2 – 4PM.
July 5, 2024
Lux (after Saint Lucy), 2024 on the July/August issues of Artscope magazine.
June 22, 2024
Triangulum, 2019 acquired by the Fitchburg Art Museum
Triangulum, 2019, 70 x 48 inches, inkjet print from 8x10 negative and Triangulum (sketch), 2019, 20 x 15 inches, watercolor, gouache, ink on paper are now part of the permanent collection of the Fitchburg Art Museum, where I will be having a solo exhibition opening in 2025.
June 7, 2024
Some recent interview and features:
Primal Instinct | In Conversation with Tara Sellios in The Pictorial-List
Tara Sellios: Ask Now the Beasts in Lenscratch
Ask Now the Beasts in Spectaculum
May 11 - October 20, 2024
New England Now: Strange States
Lux (after Saint Lucy), 2024 on view at the Shelburne Museum in Vermont. The exhibition includes the many facets of my process, displaying the preliminary sketch, reliquary of objects and finally, the finished photographic piece.
November 11 2023 - April 28, 2024
Creative Spaces: The Photographer’s Studio as Inspiration
No. 3 (from the series Impulses), 2012 now on view at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston reviewed in The Boston Globe, Musée Magazine and What Will You Remember?
July 29, 2023
My work is in the midst of a set of exhibitions arranged in Como, Italy. One of which took place in July as part of a four person group show at Francesco Corbetta Studio, and the other will take place in September of this year at the Castello Baradello, a fortified tower at the top of a hill overlooking the city from Byzantine times. There will be several more exhibitions in Italy to come over the next several months.
June 26, 2023
“Abundantia”, from the series Ask Now the Beasts, has been included in the summer issue of the online publication Sein und Werden, Animal, Vegetable, Mineral.
March 28, 2022
I am thrilled to announce that I will be having a solo exhibition at the Fitchburg Art Museum the fall of 2024. The show will consist of photographs, drawings, sculpture and installation. This will be my first museum show. Process of the exhibit can be seen on my instagram account (@tarasellios).
April 8, 2022
Seven Snakes is on view at Filter Photo in Chicago as part of the Context 2022 exhibition juried by Frances Jakubek through April 30.
June 1, 2021
My work and studio are featured in the first issue of Juniper Rag Magazine. Many thanks to Michelle May for starting and curating the publication, which features mainly local artists.
March 10, 2021
It is my pleasure to share my participation in the Open Artelier, an art collective based in Italy with the aim of creating a pulsating and thriving space, both physical and virtual. I am currently in the beginning stages of planning an exhibition of my work at museum in Italy later this year. I participated in an art exchange with the same organizers several years ago in Como, Italy and am excited to have the opportunity to show there again where a lot of the art that inspires me actually lives.
Open Artelier’s ambition is to stimulate cultural exchange by putting artists at the center. The core idea of Art Artelier’s founding group is to promote and disseminate ideas, beauty and emotions to a responsive public.
July 3,2020
Honored have Impulses No. 3 added to the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston as part of an initiative to highlight and support contemporary artists, both local and national.
MFA Boston Affirms Commitment to Contemporary Artists Amid Ongoing Closure
2019
Infernalis exhibition at Gallery Kayafas (Boston, MA)
PhotoBrussels Festival 04 - Still Life? at Hangar Art Center (Brussels, Belgium)
2017
Testimony at Blue Sky Gallery (Portland, OR)
Sinuous at C. Grimaldis Gallery (Baltimore, MD)
In Vivo: The Nature of Nature, Noorderlicht Photo Festival, Museum Belvedere (Neerenveen, Netherlands)
Upcoming webinar
I will be giving an online lecture for Santa Fe Photographic Workshops as part of their Creativity Continues Series. The talk is March 6th, 6-7pm MT. Register here
