Josephine Taylor

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

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]

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:

تتسم الأعمال الفنية ببطءٍ في أدائها، جاذبةً إيانا إلى الاقتراب، حيث يجب أن نكون لنرى حقًا. وحين نصل إلى هناك، ونعيش في علاقةٍ جسديةٍ مع شخصياتها، لا نصدق ما نراه: أطفالٌ يسخرون من بعضهم البعض ويعذبونهم؛ حنانٌ وقسوةٌ يتشابكان بين أفراد العائلة؛ أحباءٌ يلقون حتفهم فجأةً. تتداخل الأعمال بين الماضي والحاضر، مُظهرةً كيف تبقى ذكريات الفنانة عن تجاربها الشخصية المؤلمة عالقةً كبقايا في عالمها النفسي الحالي. ^{[ 14 ]}

• حلقة جوزفين تايلور من برنامج سبارك
• زيارة استوديو جوزفين تايلور مع برنامج "إن ذا ميك"