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Grace Taylor

Grace Taylor

Media:  Photography
Studio312 (click for map location)
Phone:  703.683.2205 (Multiple Exposures Gallery)
             410.234.0047 (Light Street Gallery)
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Gallery One | Gallery Two

Stone XLIII
Archival Pigment Print
16" x 16"
Stone IX
Archival Pigment Print
16" x 16"
Stone XXIII
Archival Pigment Print
16" x 16"

Grace Taylor is a fine art photographer whose work is primarily about people in their environments. She studied at The Corcoran College of Art and Design, Montgomery College, and PhotoWorks in Glen Echo. She has attended numerous workshops with master photographers in the U.S. and broad and has had many one-person shows.

In 2006, Taylor published a book titled A TIBETAN ODYSSEY, documenting her month-long journey in eastern Tibet. When she had a show of Tibet images in Baltimore, Glenn McNatt, art critic of the Baltimore Sun, wrote ". . . Taylor has a wonderful sense of light and shadow and a natural empathy for people that allows her to suggest something of her subjects' personalities through the smallest gestures and most fleeting expressions. . ." Click on Gallery 2 (under image at top of page) for images from the book, which is available at Multiple Exposures Gallery, studio 312.

Recently, Taylor began making portraits of stones she has collected near the seashore during many visits to Maine. In reviewing an exhibition of the stone portraits, Claudia Rousseau of the Gazette newspaper wrote: "These approximately 15-inch square black and white archival pigment prints show the stones floating against a totally black background. The luminosity is remarkable, as is the effect of the composition. The stones appear, as the artist says, not to be inanimate objects, but instead seem to take part in that primeval energy that emanates from the earth's formations. Prehistoric humans found such stones fascinating. Partly already formed by the earth, they were the basis of the first recorded sculpture. This energy is retained in Taylor's photos, along with, at times, the feeling that we're looking at pictures of whole planets out there in the vastness of space."

Taylor's photography is in the permanent collection of The National Museum of Women in the Arts as well as the U.S. State Department and hangs in many business and private collections. She was selected by the Maryland state Arts Council to receive an Individual Artist Award in Photography in 1999 on the basis of artistic excellence.

In addition to Multiple Exposures Gallery, Grace Taylor is represented by Light Street Gallery in Baltimore.

 
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