Maggie Taylor received her BA in philosophy from Yale University in 1983, and in 1987 received her MFA in photography from the University of Florida. After spending 10+ years as a still life photographer, she began to integrate the computer to create her images. She is currently living in Gainesville, Florida.
Her work is featured in Adobe Photoshop Master Class: Maggie Taylor’s Landscape of Dreams, Solutions Beginning with A, Modernbook Editions, Palo Alto, 2007., and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Modernbook Editions, Palo Alto, 2008. Taylor’s work has been displayed in many solo-exhibitions throughout the U.S. and abroad. In 2004 she won the Satan Fe Center for Photography’s Project Competition.
Maggie Taylor’s work is a vey successful example of the work that I am interested in creating. I have always liked digital collages; they have become some of my very favorite types of photography. I particularly like the way Taylor integrates real photographs with paintings and scanned objects. Through out her layering process of textures and actual images, she creates some very beautiful colors and not to mention imagery. If Taylor were to have an artist statement with her work, I feel it would be very similar to body of work that I am working on. I get a very dreamlike sense from each of her images. As if she too is attempting to create a world that is quite different from the one we live in. I believe she does it very successfully. A lot of her imagery is boarder line dark and creepy, and she pulls of this feeling very well in contrast to the array of beautiful colors within her images. At first glance the color, like with many other photographers, is the first thing that attracts me to her work. I love her variation of color between the images as well, some are very saturated and others are more subtle or muted. I also love that she has this very specific style of creating images, when looking through her work it is very easy to see that they are all made by the same person; she has developed a very nice signature style. I chose her for my last artist share because her work is very inspiring to me especially for my last portfolio.
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