Stephanie Taylor Art

After an idyllic childhood growing up in Sacramento, CA, I began my career in Honolulu and Los Angeles, in print media and advertising. Creating billboards on Sunset Blvd. forged a fascination with scale in architecture and the impact of image in the urban environment. Completing a degree in History from UCLA in 1977, and inspired by large-scale images, I made paintings and murals on any surface I could find. A blank wall was, and still is a personal challenge.

The Amelia Earhart mural in 1991 intensified my interest in full-sized human figures and a curiosity about connections between location, history and humans in the contemporary urban environment, and between the past and the present. I think of myself as a visual historian.

Since moving back to Sacramento in 1984, I have maintained a consistent exhibition schedule of work that is driven, not by location, but by internal interests. A passion in two diametrically opposed mediums has consumed me since 1995: clay and digital imaging. These interests have constantly kept me in a zone of discomfort that I seem to seek, constantly experimenting with materials and methods, from throwing clay on a wheel to large-scale digital murals. 2d walls became 3d and finally freestanding and in 2006, I received a Masters in Sculpture.

Recently, I have been able to acknowledge a deep sense of design and with my obligation as an artist, the idea of beauty now seems increasingly worthy of pursuit in our contemporary and very scary world.