about

Statement:

I create caricatures of people, places and things that act as artifacts of memory; memory based in domesticity, womanhood and the dynamic of rural small town family life.

These caricatures exist as drawings, paintings, collage and sculptures that intuitively work themselves into interchangeable mixed media installations. Each installation being a surrealist tableau in which the nostalgia of childhood and the confrontation and conformity of adulthood come to layer in the same space. 

This layering employs figuration of said caricatures through trompe-loeil, decorative pattern, bold color and the pushing and pulling of space and perspective to create an ever continuous, unfolding narrative: one of old and new, one of ephemerality, tangibility and lucidity.

A narrative of lived history as it happened, heritage as we idealize it and life as we wish it was. 

A narrative of memory and how we remember.

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Taylor Kennedy is an artist and educator. She was born and raised in the village of Sodus Point, a small tourist town located between Lake Ontario and Sodus Bay, surrounded by the farmland that is Western, NY.

In 2015, Taylor graduated with a BFA in Fine Art Studio from Rochester Institute of Technology. From 2015-2019, Taylor lived in Brooklyn, NY. She earned her MFA in Printmaking from the Pratt Institute in 2017 with Honors, working as a graduate assistant to printmakers such as David Lantow, Grayson Cox and Caitlin Riordan. After graduating, Taylor worked as a studio assistant, intern at the Brooklyn Museum and then as a Teaching Artist at The Painted Cloud. She has shown in both NYC and Upstate NY and has participated in multiple residencies in Western, NY.

Taylor returned to rural NY in need of stillness and space. She is Adjunct Faculty for RIT’s College of Art and Design, instructing courses in Foundations and Illustration. Taylor is also a Teaching Artist for the University of Rochester/Memorial Art Gallery’s Creative Workshop and continues to be a guest Teaching Artist at The Painted Cloud.

Her studio is in a historic 1915 Grange Hall; she occupies the actress’s dressing room. She lives in the rural farmland outside of Rochester, NY.