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Bio:

Taylor is an artist and craftswoman living in Lincoln, Nebraska. She is known for making richly decorated porcelain pottery which has been exhibited internationally. Her process includes throwing, altering, and handbuilding functional vessels which are then adorned with layers of slip trailing, carving, and underglaze painting. In 2020, she was named one of Ceramics Monthly’s Emerging Artists.
She earned a BFA in 3-D Arts in 2016 from Bowling Green State University, attended Wichita State University as a post-baccalaureate student from 2016-2018, and earned an MFA with emphasis in ceramics from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2021. She has taught ceramics workshops virtually throughout the pandemic and is looking forward to teaching in person at Pocosin Arts, Wooten Clayworks, and Peter’s Valley School of Crafts in 2022.

 

Statement:

"Beauty provides pleasurable emotions which can overwhelm, give us pause, and cause us to focus our attention. It gives one’s life deeper meaning and compels us to love and cherish that which we find beautiful. I believe it is necessary, not frivolous, to seek beautiful experiences and surround ourselves with objects which evoke such sentiments. 

I craft functional pottery that is richly decorated with layers of botanical imagery. While working within the parameters of functional vessels, I explore the possibilities for expressing and evoking beauty through altered porcelain forms and lush surfaces. 

To encourage interaction with these precious objects, I have developed strategies to inspire curiosity about how it was crafted to beckon the viewer in closer to investigate. The techniques I use to construct vessels include throwing, altering, and handbuilding to build forms that are adorned with dynamic, asymmetrical surfaces. The compositions on each pot feature abstracted plants in service to creating movement around the piece by weaving painted, slip trailed, or stamped motifs around the surface. These complex layers create visual and tactile depth to encourage a person’s eyes and hands to move around the form, into the interior, and underneath."