I am
really excited to bring you this episode with Taylor O.
Thomas! I first
connected with Taylor when she submitted her work to be a Studio
Visit artist and have followed and loved her work ever since. I am
thrilled to now have her on the show! I had such a great time
talking to Taylor about how she became interested in the arts,
spoiler she almost went to a very different type of school! How she
starts a day in her studio and where she draws color
inspiration.
Jan 10, 2020
Taylor O.
Thomas is an American
painter from Birmingham, Alabama who uses gestural
painting as a means of making manifest human tendencies, ways of
seeing, and the
interconnection between the body and the mind. Her
paintings have been exhibited in
galleries and private collections across the United States and in
Italy, Spain, Singapore,
and China. In 2012, Thomas graduated magna cum laude from Davidson
College with a
BA in Studio Art. She was then awarded a Graduate Fellowship by the
University of
South Florida and earned her MFA in 2019.
Thomas is the recipient of an inaugural Innovate Artist
Grant, a Peripheral Vision
Publication Fellowship, a two-time role as Publication Juror for
Friend of the Artist, a
Regional Artist Project Grant by the Arts and Science Council of
Charlotte, North
Carolina, and a residency fellowship to attend Benaco
Arte in Sirmione, Italy. Other
residencies include MassArt: Art New England and Deli Grocery New
York. Thomas
currently lives and works in Tampa, Florida.
Thomas is represented by Deli Grocery New York
(Brooklyn, NY) and her dealer is Emily Friedman Fine Art (Los
Angeles, CA)
In this
episode, we cover a ton of great info including:
-changing paths in college
-having a type-a personality as an artist
-transitioning to abstraction
-palette colors
-using non-traditional tools to apply
paint
-Taylor's life post-grad school
-community and finding gallery
representation
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