Eric J Taubert is an artist, contemporary fine art photographer, and writer based in Southwest Florida. He has worked internationally, with an emphasis on coastal New England (including a deep connection to Maine and the Ogunquit Art Colony + Ogunquit Art Association / Barn Gallery), Southwest Florida (particularly Sanibel/Captiva Island + the area between Fort Myers and Key West), and Europe. Taubert’s work has been exhibited in a variety of fine art galleries across the United States, featured in magazines, and is also held in many private collections.

“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?”

Eric J. Taubert, taubertgallery.com

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