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Taxonomy of Memory — watercolor series by Angie Rangel, 2025

Taxonomy of Memory

Angie Rangel · 2025

Taxonomy of Memory is a series of eighteen watercolors that returns to a childhood dress. Garments connected to family memory become a way to explore how personal recollections carry cultural experience.

Through repetition and variation, the dress changes with each image. Soft color transitions, floral details and forms approaching abstraction suggest the shifting nature of memory.

Uncool Gallery includes Taxonomy of Memory: Soft Gradients and Near Abstraction from the “Taxonomy of Memory” Series in Across the Americas, an online exhibition on Artsy that considers how cultural memory travels across generations and geography.

Exhibition on Artsy

Across the Americas

September 22 – October 19, 2026

Presented by Uncool Gallery

Presented by Uncool Gallery, Across the Americas brings together ten works by Dante Migone-Ojeda, Nelmir Guzman, Angie Rangel, Hannah Banciella, and Marco Caridad, in dialogue with Hispanic Heritage Month.

Exhibition text adapted from Uncool Gallery’s presentation on Artsy.

Works in the exhibition

Taxonomy of Memory: Soft Gradients, Angie Rangel, 2025

Taxonomy of Memory: Soft Gradients

2025 · Watercolor on cotton paper · 50.8 × 35.6 cm

View work on Artsy ↗
Near Abstraction from the “Taxonomy of Memory” Series, Angie Rangel, 2025

Near Abstraction from the “Taxonomy of Memory” Series

2025 · Watercolor on cotton paper · 50.8 × 35.6 cm

View work on Artsy ↗

Selected works from the series

Taxonomy of Memory: Variation Without Flowers
Variation Without Flowers Watercolor on cotton paper, 51 × 36 cm
Taxonomy of Memory: Variation With Roses
Variation With Roses Watercolor on cotton paper, 51 × 36 cm
Taxonomy of Memory: Faded Torso
Faded Torso Watercolor on cotton paper, 51 × 36 cm
Taxonomy of Memory: Fragment of a Dress
Fragment of a Dress Watercolor on cotton paper, 51 × 36 cm
Taxonomy of Memory: An Intense Use of Red
An Intense Use of Red Watercolor on cotton paper, 51 × 36 cm
Taxonomy of Memory: Near Abstraction
Near Abstraction Watercolor on cotton paper, 51 × 36 cm
Taxonomy of Memory: The Collar Was Blue
The Collar Was Blue Watercolor on cotton paper, 51 × 36 cm
Taxonomy of Memory: Was There a Bow?
Was There a Bow? Watercolor on cotton paper, 51 × 36 cm
Taxonomy of Memory: I Barely Remember the Details
I Barely Remember the Details Watercolor on cotton paper, 51 × 36 cm
Taxonomy of Memory: How Were the Bows Arranged?
How Were the Bows Arranged? Watercolor on cotton paper, 51 × 36 cm