Alison Elizabeth Taylor
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[]
Taylor creates images using marquetry[4] which she has expanded to include paints 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]
Alison Elizabeth Taylor is a graduate of Columbia University, School of the Arts.[6]
References[]
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Master Print Series: Alison Elizabeth Taylor". MassArt. 11 January 2018. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
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