From the on-going "Afterimage" and "Aftermath" series, which focus on the interpretation of historical photographic records of devastation and decay, to the abstracted landscapes in oil of lights on water and environments that are mysterious and shifting under the viewers gaze, Katherine Taylor's work consistently explores the human experience of the impact a change on our environment - whether sudden as in a hurricane, or creeping yet irrevocable, as in the development of a casino economy along a previously pristine shoreline - has upon the inhabitants.

In her characteristically autobiographical paintings, Taylor comments on the qualities of light that obscure the distinction between the natural and the man-made landscape. For Taylor, light conjures a spectrum of feelings and emotions. Using a complex process of multiple layers of oil and numerous reactive mediums, she creates a luminosity suggestive of a range of interpretations from that of a celestial presence to seduction to simple dreamy sensations.

Katherine Taylor received her MFA in Painting at Georgia State University in 2002. 2006 sees Katherine Taylor's fourth solo exhibition at Marcia Wood Gallery as well as prestigious showings at DiverseWorks in Houston and The Contemporary in Atlanta. She has enjoyed both popular and critical success – including exhibitions at MGCCC Gallery in Biloxi, MS; Agnes Scott College’s Dalton Gallery in Decatur, GA; and the Albany Museum of Art in Georgia – and acclaim in publications such as the Boston Globe, the European journal rosebud: action, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She was featured as a cover artist in the 2005 Southeastern edition of New American Paintings (#58).