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Maggie Taylor Webinar

Calling all Maggie Taylor fans! Maggie will be conducting a webinar for RetouchPRO LIVE on Sat, Feb 28, 2015 from 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM CST

You must register in advance at: 

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3570011265753419265

 

 

Maggie Taylor creates what she calls “dreamlike worlds inhabited by everyday objects.” To make her intricate compositions, Taylor collages a variety of images using digital technology. She begins with small pastel drawings to use as backgrounds, then scans each additional element into the computer and combines them using Photoshop, arranging figures much in the same way she creates still lifes in the studio. Finding inspiration in 19th-century photographs, taxidermy specimens, mounted insects, vintage toys, sea shells, feathers, and other artifacts she finds at flea markets, online auctions, and in her own backyard, Taylor creates surreal pigmented digital prints that call to mind tintype photographs from another world. 

Her digital composites have been widely exhibited and have been collected by many museums including the following: The Center for Creative Photography, Tucson; The George Eastman House, Rochester; Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville; Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas; The High Museum, Atlanta; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans; The Art Museum, Princeton University; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland; The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; and The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara. 

Maggie Taylor's work is featured in Adobe Photoshop Master Class: Maggie Taylor's Landscape of Dreams, Peachpit Press, Berkeley, 2005; Solutions Beginning with A, Modernbook Editions, Palo Alto, 2007; Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, Modernbook Editions, Palo Alto, 2008; Album, Edizioni Siz, Verona, Italy, 2009; and No Ordinary Days, University Press of Florida, 2013.

Photoshop Spotlight: Maggie Taylor

Posted on Feb 24, 2015

To Highlight the 25th anniversary of Photoshop, photoshop.com interviewed gallery artist Maggie Taylor. To see more of Maggie's work at Catherine Couturier Gallery, click here.     The dreamlike world of narrative photomontages Alchemist. Weaver of…

Lori Vrba: The Moth Wing Diaries

Posted on Feb 12, 2015

    ANNOUNCING PUBLICATION OF   LORI VRBA: THE MOTH WING DIARIES WITH AN ESSAY BY DEL ZOGG, MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, HOUSTON   DAYLIGHT BOOKS / MAY 2015                                                                                                 …

Spotlight: HCP Auction 2015

Posted on Feb 12, 2015

Each year in February, HCP holds an annual print auction where artists, galleries, and collectors from all over the world contribute premier photographic art that is auctioned to benefit HCP’s operating fund. It is an elegant evening of cocktails, dinner,…

Bill and Bill Come to Houston

Posted on Feb 10, 2015

W.M. - Bill -  Hunt and Bill Armstrong are taking their various routines on the road this Spring and will be in Houston, Texas for the weekend of Feb 27th- March 1st.   Bill Armstrong’s exhibition  “Buddha & Mandala” opens on Friday, 27 of February at the…

AIPAD REVIEW: RACHEL PHILLIPS AT CATHERINE COUTURIER GALLER

Posted on Feb 4, 2015

Rachel Phillips:  From Time to Time  through February 14, 2015    Any artist who operates in the plural must make interesting work.  Indeed, Rachel Phillips, who also makes work as her alter-egos Madge Cameron and Frances Pane, is interested in layers-…

BEHIND PHOTOGRAPHS: ARCHIVING PHOTOGRAPHIC LEGENDS

Posted on Feb 3, 2015

BEHIND PHOTOGRAPHS: ARCHIVING PHOTOGRAPHIC LEGENDS began as the personal quest of photographer Tim Mantoani, who spent over five years shooting portraits of 150 photographers, each holding their most iconic or favorite image. The project was shot using a series…

Strange Developments : Alternative Process Photography in the Bay Area

Posted on Jan 21, 2015

If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area in February you can not miss Strange Developments. The premier event in Gordon's traveling artist conversation series, Strange Developments will include talks by artists John Chiara, Niniane Kelley and Chris McCaw,…

New Work from Rachel Phillips

Posted on Jan 14, 2015

In an exploration of time, history and personality, From Time to Time includes work made by Rachel Phillips as herself, as well as the work of her two alter-egos: Madge Cameron and Frances Pane. From Time to Time is her second solo show at Catherine Couturier…

Spotlight: S. Gayle Stevens

Posted on Nov 20, 2014

With growing concern for the proliferation of colony collapse disorder (CCD), which results in the inexplicable and increasing disappearance of worker bees from their colonies, artist S. Gayle Stevens began to photographically repopulate the insects through…