Bio

b. 1997 Hartford, CT. Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Olivia Juliet Taylor is a self-taught artist from New England concerned with the themes of memory and nature. 

To find the subjects of her paintings, Taylor often revisits videos she forgot she has taken or stills from TV and film; fleeting archaeological artifacts re-discovered before slipping back into obscurity, plucked to hover outside of their preexisting timelines. 

Her oil on canvas works are intimate in scale and often cropped to only reveal the most vital parts of the scene, as memories tend to be skewed in this way. Perhaps it is a set of hands pruned at the wrist, or a curio case without the wall from which it hangs, or someone’s gaze without the rest of their face. Through this intentional scale and cropping, the work is both intimate and detached, mimicking the sentimentality and loss that comes with the act of remembering.

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oliviajuliettaylor@gmail.com

@o_tays

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