October 3 – November 2, 1991
I think of these photographs as personal fictions created from photographed facts. While these images suggest narratives, they allow the viewer to respond on an individual basis. I intend the viewer to experience a convergence of factual memory and fictional daydream similar to my own internal dialogue in creating the work.
—Maggie Taylor (1991)
Maggie Taylor grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, and moved to Florida at the age of 11. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in philosophy from Yale University in 1983, where she also studied photography and art history. After a summer as an intern at the Daniel Wolf Gallery in New York City, she decided to pursue a career in fine art photography. After receiving her MFA degree in photography from the University of Florida in 1987, Taylor spent ten years making color still-life photographs using wet darkroom technology. In 1997, while married to black-and-white photomontage pioneer Jerry Uelsmann, she was introduced to Photoshop and transitioned immediately to working digitally, often using a flatbed scanner as her camera. She currently utilizes a variety of image-capture technologies, including a cell phone.
Taylor’s elaborately layered images have been widely exhibited and reside in significant public collections including: The Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ; The George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY; Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL; Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas, Austin, TX; High Museum, Atlanta, GA; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA; The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH; The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; and The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO.
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; No Ordinary Days, distributed by University Press of Florida, 2013; Through the Looking-Glass, Moth House Press, Gainesville 2018; and Internal Logic, Moth House Press, Gainesville 2022.
Taylor lives on the edge of a prairie in Gainesville, FL.