| Solo exhibition at
Marcia Wood Gallery, February 19 - March 28, 2009. installation
images
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.
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