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BFA Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, MFA University of Oregon

Biography:

David Taylor’s artwork examines place, territory, history and politics and has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Pursuing long-term projects that reveal the changing circumstances of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, he was awarded a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship and has released two monographs–Working the Line (Radius Books, 2010) and Monuments: 276 Views of the United States – Mexico Border (Radius Books and Nevada Museum of Art, 2015). His artwork is in the permanent collections of numerous institutions including the Nevada Museum of Art, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, the New Mexico Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Widely published, Taylor’s projects have been featured in outlets such as Art LTD., The Guardian, The New Yorker blog, Politico, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Places Journal, PREFIX PHOTO, Fraction Magazine and the Mexico/Latin America Edition of Esquire Magazine. Exhibition venues include the The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Phoenix Art Museum, the MCA San Diego, the Mexican Cultural Institute in Washington DC, Museo de las Artes Universidad de Guadalajara, Oficina de Proyectos Culturales and the MFA Houston.

Most recently Taylor was awarded a 2019 residency at Proyecto Siqueiros: La Tallera in Cuernavaca, Mexico and a 2019 Arizona Commission for the Arts Research and Development Grant.

He has been a member of the Society for Photographic Education (SPE) since 1992, served for seven years on the SPE Board of Directors, four years as the Vice Chair of the organization, and was Committee Chair for the 2002 SPE National Conference, Fact or Fiction: Photography and Mediated Experience, held in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Taylor joined the faculty of the School of Art in 2013 with over 16 years of teaching experience.

Personal Websites and Gallery Representation:

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2 days ago

Visit our Graduate Gallery and support Michaela Moravcikova’s current exhibition, “Body lotion.” Michaela is an exchange student from Slovakia currently enrolled in our 2D studies program and is achieving her Masters in Painting. The exhibition containing acrylic paintings, monotypes, and silkscreens will end December 12, so be sure to check it out soon! You can contact michaela.moravcikova2@gmail.com to request a viewing.
“I try to connect the body with the icons. Abstraction created through layers, shapes, patterns, icons, lines, background, foreground, and transparency is shaken and then led by the haiku of my memory, experiences, emotions and associations. I’m interested in taming rationality, intuition, imagination, association, suggestions, trust and savageness. I try to juggle with elements of daily life with ease, to perform the best gig. Why wouldn’t I, if everything is permitted. We all want to have fun.” @michaelamoravcikova ... See MoreSee Less

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7 days ago

Meet one of our many amazing alumni, Jenny Day!✨
Jenny earned her MFA in painting at the UArizona School of Art and is currently a painter and sculptor based in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
She has exhibited her work in Arte Laguna in Venice, Italy, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art in Korea, Museum of Art Fort Collins, Mesa Arts Museum, and the Phoenix Art Museum, to name a few! She also has a solo show currently on display at the Alabama Contemporary Art Center and a collaborative exhibition with Beth Davila Waldman at Chung | Namont in San Francisco, California.
We are so proud of Jenny for all of her incredible accomplishments and wish her success in her future endeavors!
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“Retreating from the stress and chaos of the last year, I created another landscape; populated by an army of friendly creatures. Here the burdens of coronavirus, climate change, and political division are dismissed by hot pink kittens that arc gracefully through meteor showers and owls that bury into beds of daffodils. In this place worry is edged out by the fantastic and mystical snails trail neon candy canes through the scorched earth. The apocalyptic is supplanted by the surreal and the allegorical.
Anxiety followed me. The escapist reflects and distorts its shadow world, the real, a funhouse mirror that names the traumas as it blows past them, slyly referential. The work suggests that magic is possible; while anchoring itself in the grotesque, inedible foods, a conglomeration of garbage. A blissful, almost psychedelic, reverence for nature exists, but the fantasy’s origins leach through in the details and distortions. The animals are often translucent, reflective. Nature persists, proliferates, and transforms. Relentless flowers push up against the edges of paintings, attempting to smother and subsume, animals and people oblivious to any threat; the threat always present.” - @jenny.marie.day ... See MoreSee Less

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Check out these impressive collages from School of Art Alumnus, Spencer Nichols! Spencer has received his BFA in Studio Art and is currently an MFA candidate at Pratt Institute. These images are from a series titled, “Work in Progress 1.”
“I created this work as a response to emotions caused by a breakup. It reflects my thoughts, feelings, desires, and pains I experienced and almost appear to be begging for some sort of release. Originally thinking about this work, I wanted it to be a comparison between the feelings of being lost as a child and an adult; as a child I often felt lost, as I did during the time I began the work. When I thought about the material I wanted to collage with, 1970/80’s gay pornographic magazines, it reminded me of the connection between media consumption and sexual habits in gay culture, as well as the connection present in personal and private exploitations. I felt trapped, hostage to heartbreak and old habits. I also became reminded of the link between materials created during a viral epidemic and work being made in a new global pandemic. The ransom note style text is my attempt at asking myself what the price is for letting go and being free. How can I be the prisoner and the security guard, and what is the ransom to release myself from the cage? This work explores those questions through vulnerability within myself in an attempt to find the answer.” - @srnichols7 ... See MoreSee Less

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This past Thursday, The Committee on Multiethnic Concerns (a special interest group of the National Art Education Association) celebrated its 50th anniversary! The virtual event, “The Future is Now: Imagining The ‘As Yet’,” was moderated by third year PhD student, Amber Coleman who is currently studying Art and Visual Culture Education at the School of Art. The talk also featured School of Art Alumna and recipient of the SoA and CFA Outstanding Senior Award in May 2018, Elizabeth Denneau. Elizabeth is currently an art teacher at Marana High School while also completing her MFA at SAIC. Congratulations to both Amber and Elizabeth for being featured in the event and representing the next generation of leaders in the field of art education!
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First photo: Elizabeth Denneau
Second: “mettre le feu” by Elizabeth Denneau
Third: Amber Coleman
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Tomorrow is Future Teachers of America Day! We are so glad to highlight Carissa DiCindio, one of our amazing Assistant Professors of Art and Visual Culture Education who is currently teaching and mentoring our future art and museum educators. Carissa is professor for Theory & Practice in Art Museum Education where she focuses on museum education, teaching and learning theory, communication techniques, and studying audience characteristics. Last spring, Carissa received a grant from the College of Fine Arts where she was able to fund student projects for her ARE425 class. Students were able to purchase supplies for “Our Stories I Acts of Love and Community: Sharing Experiences with Food and Art” exhibition in collaboration with @artworksua currently on display at the @uazmuseumofart. Her ARE525 class also contributed to the exhibition by designing zines, soundscapes, and a digital curation of Ed Ruscha art. Carissa DiCindio’s research, teaching, and service have been specifically focused on museum-community partnerships, underrepresented museum audiences, university art museums, and accessible programming.
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I have the best collaborators!!

Dr. DiCindio is awesome!

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3 weeks ago

Check out this awesome project created by Madison Ritscher for Karlito Miller Espinosa’s Art 368 Figure Illustration class!
For this piece, Karlito wanted students to study different figures and find a way that they could interact with each other, “I decided to create a collage of different references from National Geographic. I’ve decided to call it ‘Untitled 1’ because I plan to do more work like this in the future, taking a look at things like National Geographic articles, and other forms of informative media and changing it to create confusion out of things that were normally meant to be educational.” - @art_with_maddi_ritscher
The first image is a digital sketch, the second a progress picture, and the last is the finished oil painting. ... See MoreSee Less