Tara McPherson is an American contemporary artist exploring concepts surrounding the human condition. With a focus on powerful female archetypes, her otherworldly characters hold a compelling tension in their gaze, giving us a peek into the complexities of the human psyche. Inspired by astrophysics, science, nature, mythology, comics, music, love, loss, and good old life experience. Her portraits delve into our inner realms as they reference philosophical questions about the universe, reality, and existence. Tara has exhibited her paintings and serigraphs internationally in galleries and museums. Named the crown princess of poster art by ELLE Magazine, she has created numerous music posters for bands such as Beck, The Pixies, and Metallica. She has worked with Sony Pictures Animation doing character designs & creative development for an animated feature production. Her array of art also includes a variety of designer toys with KidRobot, painted comic covers for DC Vertigo, advertising illustrations for Wyden+Kennedy, Barton F Graf, Publicis, and Bernstein Andrulli. She has been a judge for the Society of Illustrators, taught in the Illustration department at Parsons in NYC, and has done many painting workshops in museums and universities worldwide.