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Artist Exhibitions:
october 2-25, 2008, solomon
dubnick gallery, sacramento.
One person and group shows
every year since 1993, Michael
Himovitz Gallery, 1986-93...
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Artist Reviews:
Coming Soon!
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Collections:
Collections and commissions
include:
International
Disneyland Hotel, Paris,
France (the only non-French,
non-Disney artist on the
project)
Nittettso Shoji Corporation,
Kyoto, Japan
National
Bally’s Casino, Las Vegas
Crown Plaza, New York
Disney Institute, Disneyworld,
Orlando
Grand Floridian Beach Resort,
Disneyworld, Orlando
Harvey’s Resort, South Lake
Tahoe
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Commissions:
Most of my career has been
spent creating work on
commission for the above
collections.
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Artist Statement for Stephanie Taylor
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Scale in the architectural environment has always fascinated me. I began my career as an advertising art director, including billboards, in image driven Los Angeles. Since 1977, I have created site specific, publicly placed paintings and sculpture, as a full time professional, for major private and public sector institutions. With a degree in History from UCLA, my focus was on the role of location and connection to the past in contemporary society, often reflecting my heritage as a fourth generation Californian.
My first interests were in abstracted architecture, and then, after my Amelia Earhart mural in 1991, the human figure and how people relate to each other. In both my public and private work, I thought of myself as a visual historian, both representational and as narrative. Since returning to Sacramento in 1984, I have maintained a consistent solo and group exhibition schedule, showing work that is driven, not by location, but by internal interests.
Increasingly, my work has come off the wall, starting with a 60 foot mural at Jack London Square in Oakland, 1996. I needed to compel people to become more engaged in the murals and to accomplish this, I added ceramic elements to the 2D mural. Viewer engagement is a driving impetus in my work. Curiosity also drives me, and I want to inspire this in the viewer as well.
By 2003, I needed to step out of a well-accomplished comfort zone. Aside from art school at night in LA, I was primarily a self-taught artist. I returned to school to study art full time. I had been a Philosophy major at UCLA for a time, and with a pivotal trip to London that year, a renewed interest in theory flared. I spent the next three years focusing on issues and practice, making objects and exploring my personal response to the world, independent of location and representation. I completed an MA in sculpture in 2006.
While I've maintained a consistent exhibition schedule since 1983, I'm still passionately attached to architecture and installations on a large scale. Most recent mediums include cement and clay in large, free-standing sculpture.
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