BIO
Known for her innovative style, Maggie Taylor’s technique includes the use of a flatbed scanner instead of a traditional camera to record and interpret the objects she collects. Her digital composites include old tintypes and toys sourced from flea markets and eBay and pastel drawings used as backgrounds. Since 2022, she has been using text-to-image AI programs to create elements for her digital collages. Each element is scanned separately and using Photoshop she is able to arrange and play with these layers in much the same way that she worked with objects in her studio for a still life photograph. Maggie works spontaneously and intuitively, creating images that have a resonance and a mysterious narrative content.

Maggie Taylor received her BA degree in philosophy from Yale University in 1983 and her MFA degree in photography from the University of Florida in 1987. After more than ten years as a still-life photographer, she began to use the computer to create her images in 1996. Her work is featured in Adobe Photoshop Master Class: Maggie Taylor’s Landscape of Dreams, published by Adobe Press in 2005; Solutions Beginning with A, Modernbook Editions, Palo Alto, 2007; and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Modernbook Gallery Editions, San Francisco, 2008. Taylor’s images have been exhibited in one-person exhibitions throughout the U.S. and abroad and are in numerous public and private collections including The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; and The Museum of Photography, Seoul, Korea. In 1996 and 2001 she received State of Florida Individual Artist’s Fellowships. In 2004 she won the Santa Fe Center for Photography’s Project Competition. She lives in Gainesville, Florida

ARTIST STATEMENT
I create images, and that is much more important to me than explaining what the images mean. There is just no telling what they mean to other people anyway. Things used in my images include 19th century photographic portraits, scans of small objects, photographs taken by me out and about in the real world. Most days I sit at the computer for hours and rearrange layers in Photoshop. I might find something interesting in the garden while I am taking a break from my computer. I might put it on the scanner. Making these images takes a long time; they are stubborn and do not want to leave until they are ready. People who think that working digitally is easy and quick are wrong.

ALUMINUM PRINTS
Prints are also available on aluminum. Learn more about dye sublimation prints here.

PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS

Up, Up, and Away!, February 24th - March 30th, 2024
Internal Logic, April 9th– May 28th, 2022

Museum Studies, February 22 – March 28, 2020
Through the Looking Glass, April 7- May 12, 2018
Stranger Things Have Happened, February 27 – April 2, 2016
No Ordinary Days, January 12 – February 9, 2013

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