-About the Artist-
-Artist Bio-
Taylor Clark was born in 1997 and currently resides in Gillespie, Illinois.
Clark’s primary education was carried out at Gillespie High School, where she received her high school diploma in 2015. She received her Associate Degree in Fine Arts at Lewis and Clark Community College in Godfrey, Illinois in 2019, and currently, she is enrolled at Southern Illinois University of Edwardsville, in Edwardsville, Illinois to receive her Bachelor’s in Studio Arts degree with a focus in Painting and a minor in Art History.
Clark has participated in academic shows. She has participated in a gallery was in 2019 at Art Saint Louis Varsity Show, where she displayed one of her paintings for about a month. Other shows were within a collegiate space, showcasing some of the paintings she had completed within the academic workspaces.
-Artist Statement-
In her practice, Clark looks up to artists such as Max Beckmann or Henri Matisse. They are very different artists in their style, however, they both shared a similarity in their practice. That being that they do not refine the subject matter of their paintings. Clark's focus is to experiment with the principles of art, such as the shapes and color of the figure.
To summarize in a short synopsis of Taylor Clark’s work, her work is focused primarily on the figure. She is interested in themes of femininity, sexuality, and self-identity. Her current work is focused on the human figure and studying the variations of each individual person by studying the figure through different mediums, preferably oil paint. However, the major focus is using figural art as a vessel of self-discovery, painting self-portraits to get to know herself better.