Alison Elizabeth Taylor (born 1972)[1] is an American artist based out of New York City. She is known for her marquetry hybrid work combining Renaissance-style marquetry with painting and collage to depict contemporary subject matter. Her exhibitions have been covered in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Village Voice.[2][3]
Works and career
editTaylor creates images using marquetry[4] which she has expanded to include painting and photographs.[5]
She subverts inlay's decorative status by constructing narratives that are neither decorative, nor memorial, nor facile, but rather freezing the abject, mundane and ordinary in time. Marquetry was first popularized under Louis XIV in the 17th century in the unprecedented luxury of Versailles. By portraying these subjects in a technique associated with opulence and privilege, the artist pays respect to the subject and challenges the expectations and connotations associated with the material.[citation needed]
Taylor won the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition for her work Anthony Cuts under the Williamsburg Bridge, Morning, which is subsequently on display at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. As a result of her win, Taylor will be commissioned to portray a remarkable living American for the National Portrait Gallery’s collection.[6]
Alison Elizabeth Taylor is a graduate of Columbia University, School of the Arts.[7]
References
edit- ^ "Security House, Alison Elizabeth Taylor". Brooklyn Museum. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
- ^ Kino, Carol (27 May 2008). "An Artist Revives Renaissance-Style Marquetry". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-07-18.
- ^ "James Cohan Gallery - Alison Elizabeth Taylor".
- ^ Rodney, Seph (22 December 2017). "Surreal Scenes of the American West Ingeniously Rendered in Wood". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
- ^ Volk, Gregory (1 February 2018). "Alison Elizabeth Taylor". ARTnews. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
- ^ "Anthony Cuts under the Williamsburg Bridge, Morning by Alison Elizabeth Taylor". The Outwin: American Portraiture Today | Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 2022-08-10.
- ^ "Master Print Series: Alison Elizabeth Taylor". MassArt. 11 January 2018. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
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