Biography from American Design Ltd.:
| Primarily a landscape painter, Ann Taylor concentrates in her work upon
portraying a comprehensive view of the natural world, working from
specific landscape ideas. The dominant feature of the paintings
is a conceptual vastness. Taylor's work emerges from the vastness
of American wilderness. Never
painting on location, she assimilates ideas, tones and patterns and
returns to her studio to create her special vision of the land.
By
distilling the essentials from specific land formations, she intends to
give each
work a deliberate kind of universal significance. A formalist
interested in the formation of line, color and structure, Taylor's goal
is to brings
her viewers to a heightened awareness of these qualities under the
guise of evocatively sophisticated landscapes.
Taylor began exhibiting professionally in 1964. Reviews of Taylor's work has been positive. Gordon Brown of Arts
Magazine said, "One thinks of Ad Reinhart, to whom Taylor bears a
certain resemblance with her mystical mood and monochromatic style."
Donna Marxer of Arts Magazine concluded, "The complexity in Taylor's
works is something that transcends the subtle palette and exquisite
technique. It is an almost eerie sense of life and movement. The artist
literally paints the very air."
Among
the museums and galleries which have shown or purchased her work
are: The Gallery of Modern Art in New York; The Indianapolis
Museum of Art; The Memorial Art Gallery and The Oxford Gallery in
Rochester; The Miller Gallery in Cincinnati; The Janet Fleischer
Gallery in Philadelphia; The Art Wagon Galleries in Scottsdale; The
Hunter Gallery in Aspen; Gallery One in Petoskey; Arwin Galleries in
Detroit; The Naples Art Gallery in Naples; and Mickelson Gallery in
Washington.
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