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.
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
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