ALISON ELIZABETH TAYLOR
Born in Selma, Alabama
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
EDUCATION
2005
M.F.A. in Visual Art, Columbia University, New York, NY
2001
B.F.A. (summa cum laude) Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2012
Campaign, C24 Gallery, New York, NY (group exhibition)
2011
Surface Value, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA (group exhibition)
American Gothic: Alison Elizabeth Taylor and Aaron Spangler, South Eastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
2010
Un/Inhabited, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia (travelling to
Atlanta, Georgia)
Foreclosed, James Cohan Gallery, New York
Venue Santander, El Palacete and Soto Verde, curated by Kevin Power
185th Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National
Academy Museum, New York, NY (curated by Nancy Malloy and Marhall Price)
2009
Young Americans, James Cohan Gallery Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Supramundane, Ambach and Rice Gallery, Seattle, WA
Alison Elizabeth Taylor, The College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH
2008
Alison Elizabeth Taylor, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
2007
The Powder Room, Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006
Alison Elizabeth Taylor, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Feaster, Filicia, “Alison Elizabeth Taylor,” Art Papers, March/April 2011
Hersh, Allison. “Art & Soul: Taylor revives wood inlay art form,” Savannah Now, October 9, 2010
French, Christopher, “Alison Elizabeth Taylor,” Artnews, Summer, 2010.
Pasulka, Nicole, “Foreclosed,” The Morning News, June 7, 2010.
“Alison Elizabeth Taylor: Critics’ Pick,” New York Magazine, June, 2010.
Vanderbilt, Tom, “Grand Illusion,” The Wall Street Journal Magazine, June 2010.
Andersen, Kurt, Foreclosed, Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen, radio interview at
http://www.studio360.org/episodes/2010/06/04, June 6, 2010.
Rosenberg, Karen, “Alison Elizabeth Taylor: ‘Foreclosed," The New York Times, June 4, 2010
Mendelsohn, Meredith, “Alison Elizabeth Taylor,” Modern Painters, May 20, 2010
Ciuraru, Carmela, “Interview with Alison Elizabeth Taylor,” Readymade, May 14, 2010
Jung-im, Seo, “An Artist’s Wood Puzzles Crossing the Boundary between Highbrow and Lowbrow Culture,” ArtCo, April, 2010
Rosenberg, Karen, “Academy Gives Art Some Wiggle Room,” The New York Times, February 18, 2010
Humphrey, David. Blind Handshake: Art Writing and Art 1990-2008.
New York: Periscope Publishing, 2009.
Sheets, Hilarie M., “Critics Pick: Alison Elizabeth Taylor,” ARTnews, January 2009
Sudarsky, Noah Marcel, “All the Art that’s Fit to Drink,” Artscape, June/August 2009
Frankel, David, “Alison Elizabeth Taylor,” ArtForum, October 2008
Koplos, Janet, "Alison Elizabeth Taylor," Art in America, September 2008
Turner, Christopher, "Against the Grain," Modern Painters, July/August 2008
"The Revivalist: Into the Woods," New York Magazine, June 23, 2008, New York, NY
"Goings on About Town," The New Yorker, June 23, 2008, New York, NY
Armetta, Amoreen, "Critics Picks," Artforum.com, June 10, 2008, New York, NY
Gopnik, Blake, "Going With the Grain to Convey Her Vision," The Washington Post, June 7, 2008, Washington, D.C.
Kino, Carol, "An Artist Breathes New Life Into Renaissance Ways With Wood," The New York Times, May 27, 2008, New York, NY
Cohen, David, "The Greats in the Galleries," The New York Sun, December 28, 2006, New York, NY
Cohen, David, "Angst & Beauty," The New York Sun, September 21, 2006, New York, NY
Baker, R.C., "Best in Show: Requiescat in Pace," The Village Voice, September 21, 2006,
New York, NY
Cohen, David, "New Art on the Walls - and the Floor & Ceiling, Too", The New York Sun, September 20, 2006, New York, NY
Genocchio, Ben, "Alison Elizabeth Taylor," The New York Times, September 8, 2006, New York, NY
Camhi, Leslie, "Into the Wood", Vogue, September 2006, New York, NY
Yau, John, "Alison Elizabeth Taylor with John Yau", The Brooklyn Rail, September 2006, Brooklyn, NY
"Alison Elizabeth Taylor at James Cohan Gallery", Makezine, September 2006, Los Angles, CA
Palmer, Valerie, "Alison Elizabeth Taylor," Venus Magazine, Summer 2004, Chicago, IL
Westbrook, Lindsey, "Reviews," Artweek, June 2003, New York, NY
AWARDS
2009 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship
2009 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Competition Award
2006 Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Program
2004 Herbert S. Germaise Fellowship for painting and drawing
2003 Beach Fund Scholarship, Columbia University
2000 California Painter's Scholarship
1999 Merit Scholarship, Art Center College of Design
1998 Art Center at Night Scholarship
