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Darlene R. Taylor

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Darlene R. Taylor

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Multidisciplinary collage artist & writer

  

Darlene Taylor explores identity, race, kinship, place, and the journey from girlhood to womanhood. Re-membering and reclaiming a record of Black survival are at the center of her practice. With artifacts of lived experience: heirloom cloths, vintage handkerchiefs, laces, linens, worn cottons, antique buttons and ribbons, and lyrics, she archives, documents, and reassembles memories in collages that are handstitched on panels of paper and cloth alongside handcut verses of poetry and prose.  The images and verses unravel what is remembered through what is passed down and preserved. The resulting layers of texture and pattern convey vulnerability and resilience. 

Artist CV

American, Multidisciplinary artist


Located in Washington, DC and the Maryland Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay


Solo Exhibitions

2024 Heirlooms, Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD

2023 HEIRLOOMS from Behind Her Gaze, private gallery, Washington, DC

2023 Memories of a Dusty Road, Asbury United Methodist Church, Washington, DC

2022 Behind Her Gaze, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH 


Artist Residencies

2023 Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Amherst, VA

2022 Columbus Museum of Art Aminah Robinson Residency, Columbus, OH


Artist Fellowships

2023, Solo Exhibition Artist Fellowship, Academy of Art, Easton, MD

2022 American Antiquarian Society, Wooster, MA

2022-2023 DC Commission on Arts and Humanities, Washington, DC

2021-2022 DC Commission on Arts and Humanities, Washington, DC

2020-2021 DC Commission on Arts and Humanities, Washington, DC

2019 Community of Writers, High Sierra Mountains, CA

2018 Kimbilio, Taos, NM

2017 Kimbilio, Taos, NM

2015 AROHO, Ghost Ranch, Santa Fe, NM

2015 Callaloo, Brown University, Providence, RI


Permanent Collections

Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus OH

Private Collections in Washington, DC, Atlanta, GA, and Houston, TX


Education 

Howard University, Graduate Studies 

University of Southern Maine, MFA

American University, BA


darlene@inkpen.org

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