BIOGRAPHY
Jonathan Taube is an interdisciplinary sculptor, exhibit designer and project manager.
Jonathan Taube, grew up in Covington, Louisiana. He is the son of two public school educators. He attended the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts from 2004- August 29th 2005, when Hurricane Katrina forced the school to close until the summer of 2006. During the storm Jonathan and his family evacuated to Houston, Texas to stay with relatives and friends. It was for another three weeks that the Taube could return home. The effects of the winds upon the trees and houses left and tremendous impact on Taube. He removed tree limbs and gutted houses in New Orleans for two more weeks before being given an opportunity to study at the Idyllwild Arts Academy in Idyllwild, California. The school sits a top of a mountain in the San Jacinto region. Taube invoke the haunting experience of natural disaster when he executed the project, Uproot for his senior project. In Uproot Taube gently excavated the entire root system of an cedar tree over the course of a week until the tree loss grip and fell. In the spring of 2006 Taube was awarded a full tuition scholarship to the Maryland Institute College of Art. He has studied with Robert Salazar, Benjamin Luzzatto, Hugh Pocock, Eve Andre Laramee, Timmy Aziz, Joan Watson, George Ciscle and Jann Rosen-Queralt. While at MICA, his work began with multimedia installation and gestural performances and evolved into public events, project management, material studies, and painting. He has been involved in the Exhibition Development Seminar, producing The Baltimore Sweep Action Parade in 2008 for the exhibition Beyond the Compass, Beyond the Square and develop exhibition design for the exhibition Follies Predicaments and Other Conundrums: the work of Laure Drogoul.In September 2009, he produced the exhibition design for MICA's entry, The Arsenal of Exclusion, to the International Architecture Biennial exhibitions Parallel Cases. He is currently in negotiation with the cities of Rotterdam, the Netherlands and Xiamen, China for an international Public Bench Exchange with Baltimore's eleven Sister Cities expected to be installed April 2010.