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 The deconstruction and repurposing of outdated Art History and art instruction books is meant to create a dialogue addressing the reductive ways in which women have been narrowly defined by visual culture.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Mixed media: outdated art history books, art instruction books, paperbacks, paint, fabric, wallpaper, charcoal, ink, silk screen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