Printmaking is my primary professional art medium where I am driven to develop my own vocabulary. I am drawn, in particular, to its unpredictability. I compose my work instinctively, combining shapes, colors, lines, and textures in order to express my imagination and react to the environment around me. The process is, therefore, both deliberate and iterative. I am constantly improvising with no fixed destination in mind. It is the open nature of the process that is constantly creating new possibilities.
Taiko Chandler lives and works in Denver, CO. She was born and raised in Nagano, Japan, and was originally trained as a nurse. Today, she works primarily in printmaking and, more recently, site-specific installation art. Her work has been exhibited in Colorado (most recently a solo show at Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art), Texas, and New Mexico, as well as at numerous print fairs throughout the U.S. Her work is in private and public collections in Japan and the U.S., including the Cleveland Clinic Art Program, the University of Colorado Denver Business School, the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (NY), and Denver Art Museum (Education Collection).
