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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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