Maxine Taylor
USA (United States)
http://mysite.verizon.net/vze2wxmu/maxinetaylor2/
Kunstart: Malerei
Technik: Mischtechnik
Stil: Abstrakt
Statement:
As an artist, I’m interested in a free interpretation of life’s experiences. My work is alive with line and movement which conveys my feelings about life’s landscape. To do this requires mastery of one’s medium of choice and for allowing direct response to internal feelings, watercolor, paper and brush, with which I initially learned to paint, I found to be unsurpassed. Following an initial application of paint, organizing a chaos of emotions into a coherent arrangement could be accomplished with the medium.
My paintings began as an interpretation of landscape and then more recently cityscape, and my intention was to capture the essence of a place or of a feeling. Ultimately finding myself limited by watercolor and paper, I determined to gain mastery of acrylics and canvas to enable my work to develop in size. The larger canvases released me from the unnecessary constraints of the rational mind and my creativity was set free. Reviewers and gallerists now consider my work to be in the genre of Abstract Expressionism.
I believe that the moving power of all artists is a vivid sensibility and impulsiveness and that art reflects life in general as well as the individual artist in particular. I believe that art rises in a kind of inner turbulence and is rarely produced in isolation from impact of the social environment in which the artist lives or works.
Maxine Taylor
10/01/2008
Vita / Lebenslauf:
Working in studio renovated in 1997 at 126 N.Madeira St. in Butchers Hill, Baltimore MD
Born: San Francisco, California;
Residence: Maryland since 1973, Baltimore since 1997
Memberships: Studio Gallery, Maryland Art Place, School 33, founding member—Passageways Artists’ Studios, Riverdale, MD
Solo Shows
2009 Montage Gallery, “Goldwash”, Federal lHill, Baltimore, MD
2007 Montage Gallery, “An Urban Glimpse”, Federal Hill, Baltimore, MD
2006 Montage Gallery, “My Personal Courier”, Federal Hill, Baltimore, MD
2005 Montage Gallery, “A Line in Focus”, Federal Hill, Baltimore, MD
2004 Montage Gallery, “In My Mirror/Image”, Federal Hill, Baltimore, MD
2003 Montage Gallery, “Empty Spaces Exist No More”, Federal Hill, Baltimore, MD
2001-2003 City of Baltimore 15th thru 13th Annual Open Studio Tour, Baltimore, MD
1997, 1998 City of Baltimore 10th and 9th Annual Open Studio Tour, Baltimore, MD
1996 Marlboro Gallery, Prince Georges College “Seeking Language, New Work” Landover, MD
1995 Columbia Art Center, “Seeking Language, New Work” Columbia, Maryland
1995 Studio Gallery, “Seeking Language, New Work”, Dupont Circle, Washington, DC
1992 Studio Gallery, “Innerspace”, Dupont Circle, Washington, DC
1991, 1989, 1987 Gallery Lounge, George Meany Center Labor Studies, Silver Spring, MD
1991 Skewers Restaurant, “Shades of Life” P St, DuPont Circle, Washington, DC
1991 Maryland National Capital Park & Planning, Arts Division Office, Hyattsville, MD
1991 Savage Gallery, Historic Savage Mill (HSM), Howard Co., MD
1990 Cardinal Gallery, Maryland Hall, Annapolis, Maryland
1989 Foundry Street Gallery, Historic Savage Mill (HSM), Savage, Maryland
Selected Juried and Invitational Group Exhibitions
2007 Ratner Museum “Four Ways of Seeing”, Bethesda, MD
1995 Capitol Hill Art League, Terrie Sultan, Juror, Washington, DC
1995 Foundry Gallery, Sam Gilliam, Juror, Washington, DC
1996 “IASG at MOCA”, Manon Cleary, Curator, Georgetown, Washington, DC
1996 MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art, KOAN Emerging Artist Exhibition, Georgetown, DC
1996 School 33, Artsites Group Installation, “Search for Language”, Baltimore, MD
1996 Women’s National Democratic Club (Invitational) “Abstracts”, Washington, DC
1994 University of Maryland University College “Symphony of Images”
1994 Galeria: ART-TEMPO, “Interart 94”, Buenos Aires, South America
1993 Studio Gallery, New Artists, DuPont Circle, DC
1990 Touchstone Gallery, Artist’s Equity Annual Members Show, Willem deLooper, Juror, Washington, DC
1990 Art Barn, “New Talent”, Chris Addison, Juror, Rock Creek Park, Washington, DC
1990 Capitol Hill Art League, David Tannous, Curator, Washington, DC
1990 Marlboro Gallery, Prince Georges College Invitational “Back and To the Future” Landover, MD
1987 55th Annual Cumberland Valley Artist Exhibition, Washington County, MD
Publications and Reviews
2008 Style Magazine, [About Town] Gallery, Vol16, No.1, Feb p22, Art from the Heart by Sarah Achenbach
2006 Catalog of Art – Four Years of painting.
2005 Baltimore Sun, Critic’s Corner/Today 11/16/05 p4E, At Montage Gallery by Glen McNatt
2003 Baltimore Sun, LIVE! 09/25, p15T, Taylor’s images defined by ‘pure line and color’ by Glen McNatt
2003 Citypaper, Baltimore, 09/24-30, p37, Empty Spaces Exist No More by Blake de Pastino
1998, 92, 91, 88 Cover: George Meany Center Curriculum Catalog
1997 Columbia Flyer, 03/27, Visual Arts, Slayton House exhibit is spiced with variety by Mike Giuliano
1996 Washington Post, 08/05, pD7, Style/Arts, Arts Beat Beyond Black Velvet, IASG at MOCA by Michael O’Sullivan
1990 George Meany Center for Labor Studies (GMCLS) Tape Cassette Cover for Audio Educational Project
Public and Private Collections
George Meany Center (GMCLS) (Collection of 18 paintings) and private collections throughout the United States
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Untitled2007
Malerei
Mischtechnik
128 x 105 cm
2007
Preis: 2.500 Euro
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Looking Down at My Block
Malerei
Mischtechnik
128 x 100 cm
2007
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This Old Tipsy House
Malerei
Mischtechnik
128 x 100 cm
2007
Preis: 2.500 Euro
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Cowboy in the City
Malerei
Mischtechnik
130 x 95 cm
2007
Preis: 2.500 Euro
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Tree Mills Circle
Malerei
Mischtechnik
75 x 97 cm
2007
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