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Josephine Taylor is an American artist known for large narrative drawings.
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Biography
Taylor was born in Phoenix in 1977. She received a BFA in Religion and East Indian Languages and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She received the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art SECA Award and was included in the California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art in 2004. Taylor's work has exhibited internationally. Her work is in the permanent collections of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. She lives and works in San Francisco and has shown with Catharine Clark Gallery since 2003. |
Works
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.
