Reframing the Canon
KIM RAE TAYLOR is a visual artist and teacher who draws from the canon of Western art history using discarded art books to interrogate the ways in which women have been excluded as artist and situated as subject. The deconstruction and repurposing of outdated Art History and art instruction books is meant to create a dialogue addressing the reductive ways in which women have been narrowly defined by visual culture.
A Meditation on the Banning of Books: Responding to the Canon
Mixed media: outdated art history books, art instruction books, paperbacks, paint, fabric, wallpaper, charcoal, ink, silk screen
2023
Skeletal
Mixed media: collage, oil, ink, fabric
2023
Satyress
Mixed media: book page, acrylic, fabric, tacks
2023
Speaker
Mixed media: book page, pencil, fabric, watercolor
[Head of an Ecclesiastic, Hans Holbein the Elder]
2023
Installation view
Materiality
Mixed media: collaged book page, ink, repurposed frame
2023
[Painting reference: The Peasant Dance, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, c. 1567]
Escape of the Decorative Object
Mixed media: book page, paper, ink, fabric, vinyl, repurposed frame
2023
woMEn
Mixed media: print of hand-cut collage with stenciled lettering, tacks, discarded frame, acrylic
2023
[Painting reference: Portrait of a Lady, by Rogier van der Weyden, c. 1460]
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Mixed media: book cover, paper, encaustic, repurposed frame
2023
The Same Peculiarity
Ink and watercolor on torn book page
[The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine, Bartolommeo Neroni]
2023