Katie Taft has a fascination with the worlds she creates, the realities she documents, and her own fluid confusion between the two. Listing the fantastic kingdom of Sea Monkeys as one of her earliest influences, the Denver, Colorado based artist vividly recalls the imaginary friends that were her closest companions while growing up as an only child in Boulder, Colorado. At the age of ten her imaginary friends stepped aside to make room for her new baby brother and remained dormant for nearly 20 years. Taft could hear their spirits demanding to emerge into the visual world and now works tirelessly as their humble servant. Employing a variety of media, she gives the creatures a proper place amongst the living and documents their urban exploits. This exhibition is the fifth installment of the Imaginary Friends series.

“The creatures you will see here have existed as part of my life for quite some time, but only in the last couple of years have I chosen to make them visible to the rest of you by giving them a physical existence in the world. I make them as objects, but they are not inanimate. They move and think and breathe in the world I share with them.

"I have taken these steps to sculpt and paint and photograph my imaginary friends to show you that they exist. They really do – here's proof.”
Katie Taft.

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