Laura Taylor is of Brazilian/American heritage and was raised primarily in Canada with frequent intervals spent in Sao Paulo, Brazil. For the last fifteen years she has lived in New York City. Her art education has been somewhat unconventional. After completing two years at The Ontario College of Art in Toronto, Canada (1979-81) she moved to Quebec, taking a year off school to live on a remote lake in northern Quebec painting, reading the classics and teaching herself French. She attended the Universite du Quebec a Trois-Rivieres (1982) for another year, and completed her formal studies at the New York Studio School in New York City in 1984. Taylor has been granted residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, Dorland Artist Colony in California, The Montana Artist's Refuge and internationally, Treffpunkt Kunst, Austria and Kulturmodell Passau, Germany. She was a member of The Painting Center in New York City from 1997 until early 2005 during which time she acted as curator for shows of artists from across the United States and organized international exchange exhibits between Painting Center artists with both Ireland and Austria. She has shown her work extensively in this country, including three solo shows in New York, New York, shows in Providence, Rhode Island, Butte, Montana, Narrowsburg, New York. In Europe her work has been shown in Dublin, Ireland, Ried-im-Innkreis, Austria and Salzburg, Austria.

More work can be found at www.laurataylorpaintings.com

 

Checklist

1.Distant Bridge, 2007 Oil and paper mounted on board, 12.5 x 15.5 inches

2. Manhattan, Windy Day, 2007 Oil on linen, 14 x 18 inches

3. Windy Day, 2007 Oil on paper mounted on board, 12.5 x 15.5 inches

4.The Isle of Manhattan, 2007 Oil on linen, 14 x 18 inches