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Josephine Taylor

Josephine Taylor is an American artist known for large narrative drawings.

Biography edit

Taylor was born in 1977[1] in Phoenix, Arizona, and grew up in Denver, Colorado. She attended Brown University and The University of Colorado at Boulder, where she received a BA in Religion and East Indian Languages (Hindi/Sanskrit).[2] She completed a Masters in Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute.[2] Taylor was awarded the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art SECA Award in 2004,[3][4][5] was included in Bay Area Now IV at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco,[6] and was included in the California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art in 2004.[7][8] Taylor's work has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally. Her work is in the permanent collections of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,[9] the Museum of Modern Art, New York,[1] Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco,[10] and 21C Museum.[11] She lives and works in San Francisco and has shown with Catharine Clark Gallery since 2003.[2][12] Taylor has taught Drawing/Painting at the Undergraduate and Graduate levels at Stanford University,[13] UC Berkeley, The San Francisco Art Institute,[6] and California College of the Arts.[2]

Works edit

 
Josephine Taylor, Skinned and Flayed (2010), colored ink on paper

Taylor uses diluted ink washes to create narrative drawings on very large, unframed pieces of paper. The subject matter of her work deals with psychological traces of childhood and adolescent memories. The 2004 SECA Art Award exhibition catalogue describes her work thus:

The works function slowly, luring us up close, where we need to be in order to really see. And once there, existing in a bodily relationship with her figures, we cannot believe what we are seeing: Children taunt and torment one another; tenderness and abuse intertwine among family; loved ones meet sudden deaths. The works collapse past and present, showing how the artist's memories of fraught personal experiences linger as residue in her current psychological landscape.[14]

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References edit

  1. ^ a b "Josephine Taylor". The Museum of Modern Art. Archived from the original on 6 May 2023. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
  2. ^ a b c d "Josephine Taylor - Biography". Catharine Clark Gallery. Archived from the original on 22 March 2023. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  3. ^ "2004 SECA Art Award: Rosana Castrillo Díaz, Simon Evans, Shaun O'Dell, Josephine Taylor". San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 2005. Archived from the original on 28 March 2023. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
  4. ^ Baker, Kenneth (8 June 2004). "SFMOMA recognizes local talent". San Francisco Chronicle. pp. E1. Archived from the original on 13 July 2023. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
  5. ^ Helfand, Glen (2005). "New Drawings in San Francisco". Art on Paper. 9 (5): 62–67. ISSN 1521-7922. JSTOR 24556792.
  6. ^ a b "Josephine Taylor". San Francisco Art Institute. Archived from the original on 3 August 2021. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
  7. ^ "Exhibitions - 2004 California Biennial". Orange County Museum of Art. 2004. Archived from the original on 13 July 2023. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
  8. ^ Knight, Christopher (13 October 2004). "Art Review - Biennial arrives, so does a museum". Los Angeles Times. pp. E1. ISSN 0458-3035. Archived from the original on 13 July 2023. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
  9. ^ "Josephine Taylor". San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Archived from the original on 1 June 2023. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
  10. ^ "The Diane and Sandy Besser Collection at the de Young Museum". Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. August 2007. Archived from the original on 4 December 2022. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
  11. ^ "Past Highlights and Acquisitions". 21c Museum Hotels. 2007. Archived from the original on 13 July 2023. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
  12. ^ van Pee, Yasmine (April 2009). "Josephine Taylor: Catherine Clark Gallery". Modern Painters. 21 (3): 69.
  13. ^ Aziz, Aya (3 October 2022). "Tales from teachers: Process over product". The Stanford Daily. Archived from the original on 4 October 2022. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
  14. ^ Gass, Alison, ed. (2011). Fifty Years of Bay Area Art: The SECA Awards. San Francisco: SFMOMA. p. 118. ISBN 978-0918471895.
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