No Ordinary Days

No Ordinary Days

<DIV><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><i>No Ordinary Days</i> surveys Maggie Taylor’s work from 1998 until 2012. Taylor, trained as a photographer, largely abandoned the camera for another light-sensitive device, the flatbed scanner. She begins her process with a found object--often a nineteenth-century photograph--and using image manipulation software like Adobe Photoshop® she transforms the original image, layering and manipulating her palette of collected visual information in a meticulous process than pushes the limits of her medium. The result is a surrealistic, often painterly, montage distinguished by vibrant color and a rich symbolism.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">Taylor’s striking combinations of history and imagination invite the viewer to engage in a process of both discovery and recollection. The genre is often described as altered or fabricated photography. Although Taylor’s work is autobiographical--informed by childhood memories, anxieties, and television consumption--it defies easy interpretation.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"> </p><p class="textMainpagesstyles" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><b>Maggie Taylor</b> is a digital artist who has exhibited her work throughout the United States and abroad. Her images are featured in <i>Maggie Taylor’s Landscape of Dreams</i>, <i>Solutions Beginning with A</i>, and <i>Lewis Carroll’s</i> Alice in Wonderland. Visit her website at www.maggietaylor.com</p></div>