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Bio

Elaine Taylor has been an artist for over 30 years.  Her current work includes large-scale installations, playful sculptures and drawings.  She has an M.A and M.F.A in art from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  Ms. Taylor is the Gallery Manager at the Fort Worth Community Arts Center and also teaches computer graphics at North Lake College in Irving, TX.  Recent exhibits include Four, a collaborative exhibit of Art Tooth and Art Room Gallery at BRIK, The Darkened Heart, a solo installation at FWCAC, Wendel Arnyard Knows the Pleasure at Grackle Gallery, and pop-up shows with the Fort Worth Art Collective, which she founded.

Selected Exhibits

Solo & 2-Person Shows

2015 THE DARKENED HEART Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX

2012 PRAIRIE CIRCLE, Featured Artist, Tandy Hills PrairieFest, Fort Worth, TX

2011 DRAWING IN CIRCLES Arts Council of FW & Tarrant Co, Fort Worth, TX

2010 BLACK & WHITE IN GRAPHITE AND CHARCOAL with John Calabrese, North Lake College, Irving, TX

2009 PRAIRIE Featured Artist, Tandy Hills PrairieFest, Fort Worth,TX

2009 CIRCLES Unity Church Gallery, Fort Worth, TX

2005 ENDURING PATTERN with Anne Allen, Gallery 414, Fort Worth, TX

2005 NEW WORK Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX

2003 HANGING SHADOWS Carillon Gallery, Fort Worth, TX 

Installations & Performances

2015 GRASS CIRCLES Grackle Gallery, Fort Worth, TX

2012 PRAIRIE CIRCLE Tandy Hills PrairieFest, Fort Worth, TX

2009-10 SPRING CIRCLES Tarrant County College, NW, Fort Worth, TX

2008 GARDEN SPIRAL Fort Worth Botanic Garden, Fort Worth TX

2007 THREE STONE CIRCLES Fort Worth, TX

2001 GRAND ENTRANCE Albany, TX

2001 TERRACE WALL Connemara, Dallas, TX

1999 STONE WALL Rivendell, New Paltz, NY 

1999 GOING DEEP WITHIN Rivendell, New Paltz, NY

1999 BRUSHWORK Unison Art Center, New Paltz, NY     

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Group Exhibits

2016 deadWEST: STRUCTURE AND CHANGE, Lakeside, TX

2016 FOUR, A COLLABORATIVE EXHIBIT WITH ART TOOTH/ART ROOM, BRIK, Fort Worth, TX

2016 FORT WORTH ART COLLECTIVE FALL SHOW, Fort Worth, TX

2016 2016 FWCAC BIENNIAL, Fort Worth, TX

2016 FORT WORTH ART COLLECTIVE SPRING SHOW, Fort Worth, TX

2015 9 X 12 WORKS ON PAPER SHOW, Fort Worth, TX

2015 FORT WORTH ART COLLECTIVE AT THE BRIT, Fort Worth, TX

2015 PRESERVATION IS THE ART OF THE CITY FWCAC, Fort Worth, TX

2015 WENDEL ARNYARD KNOWS THE PLEASURE Grackle Gallery, Fort Worth, TX

2015 NATURE BATS LAST, Jaycee Center, Irving, TX

2015 EXCEEDING OUR BOUNDS North Lake College, Irving, TX

2015 BLUEBONNET CIRCLE SHOW Fort Worth Art Collective, Fort Worth, TX

2015 SPRING GROUP SHOW, Fort Worth Art Collective, Fort Worth, TX

2015 AMERICANA ART7 Community Gallery, Fort Worth, TX

2014 FALL GALLERY NIGHT, RACE STREET, Race St, Fort Worth TX

2014 ART7 PREMIER ART7 Community Gallery, Fort Worth, TX

2013 RACE STREET 108 Riverside Arts District, Fort Worth, TX

2013 ARTSCENTER10 INVITATIONAL Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX

2013 TEXAS AND THE WEST Fort Worth Central Library, Fort Worth, TX

2012 NORTH LAKE COLLEGE ART FACULTY 2012 EXHIBITION North Lake College, Irving, TX

2012 AN ARTISTS' CHRISTMAS Camp Fire, Fort Worth, TX

2012 EASL ART HEIST, BRIT, Fort Worth TX

2012 BEST OF THE BIENNIAL, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth TX

2011 ARTNFORM, ARTnForm Gallery, Fort Worth, TX

2011 9 x 12 WORKS ON PAPER SHOW Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX

2011 CONTEM?ORARIES, Fort Worth Central Library, Fort Worth, TX

2011 (WITHOUT YOU I AM NOTHING) ART AND ITS AUDIENCE, Contemporary Museum of Art, Chicago, IL

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Group Exhibits, cont.

2010 BEST OF THE BIENNIAL, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX

2009 ATC EXHIBITION Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC, Canada

2009 LOOKING FORWARD, LOOKING BACK Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX

2008 EASL ART HEIST Artspace 111, Fort Worth, TX

2008 NORTH LAKE COLLEGE FACULTY EXHIBIT NLC, Irving, TX

2007 SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER 500X, Dallas, TX

2007 ART IN THE METROPLEX Moody Gallery, TCU, Fort Worth, TX, Michael Duncan, Juror

2007 4th FLOOR INVITATIONAL Lancaster Lofts, Fort Worth, TX

2007 WALK A MILE IN HER SHOES: A COMMENTARY Central Library, Fort Worth, TX; Anitra Blayton, curator

2007 VALENSHINE Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX, Live Auction Artist

2006 9 x 12 WORKS ON PAPER SHOW, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX

2006 BLACKWHITE (&GRAY) The Gallery at the University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington

2006 4th FLOOR INVITATIONAL Lancaster Lofts, Fort Worth, TX

2006 BUILDING BLOCKS Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX

2006 5 x 7 Arthouse, Austin, TX

2006 FIRE&ICE Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX

2005 FACULTY WORK North Lake College, Irving, TX

2004 SHINE Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX 

Bibliography

FW Weekly, June 4, 2015, Jeff Prince

ARTLIES 49, Winter 2006, pg 110, ANNE ALLEN AND ELAINE TAYLOR: ENDURING PATTERN, Elizabeth Delaney

ARTLIES 53, Spring 2007, pp 101-2, BLACKWHITE(&GRAY) Kevin Bouchard

Residencies

2011 Hammett Summer Residency, New Harbor, ME

2000-2002 Arlington Museum of Art, TCA Artist-in-Residence, Arlington, TX

2001 Connemara, Dallas, TX 

2001 Albany ISD, TCA Artist-in-Residence, Albany, TX     

1999 Rivendell Art Residency, New Paltz, NY 

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Professional Organizations

2013 -present Emergency Artists Support League (EASL) President/Vice-President

2005-present Texas Artists Coalition, Founder 2003-present Exhibition Advisory Panel, Chair/Liaison, Fort Worth Community Art Center

2002-2003, 2005-present Fort Worth Art Dealers Association

2000-2003 Texas Commission for the Arts, Artists in Education

2000-2002 Artgrlz, Founder

2000-2001 Dallas Visual Arts Center

1999-2001 Texas Visual Arts Association

1999-2001 McKinney Avenue Contemporary

1999-2001 Victory Arts Center

Juror/Judge

2016 16TH ANNUAL CONNECTION MEMBERS SHOW IRVING ARTS CENTER

2016 ARLINGTON VISUAL ARTS ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIP EXHIBIT

2016 SUNSET SOIREE, BATHHOUSE CULTURAL CENTER, DALLAS

2013 ARLINGTON VISUAL ART ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIP EXHIBIT

2012 GRANBURY ART ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIP EXHIBIT

2012 VISUAL ARTS SOCIETY OF TX ANNUAL JURIED MEMBERS EXHIBITION

2012 MID-CITIES ART ALLIANCE ANNUAL MEMBERS EXHIBITION

2012 MAIN STREET ARTS FESTIVAL

2011 ART INSTITUTE OF FORT WORTH STUDENT EXHIBIT

2011 TARRANT COUNTY COLLEGE NW STUDENT EXHIBIT

2011 ART IN THE SQUARE, SOUTHLAKE

2010 NORTH TEXAS EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION EXHIBIT

2010 MAYFEST STUDENT EXHIBIT

2009 DFW ART EXHIBIT

Employment

Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, Gallery Manager

Dallas County Community College District, Dallas, Adjunct Instructor-Computer Graphics

Michael Gilbreath Communication Design, Fort Worth, Photoshop consultant

Tarrant County College, Fort Worth, TX Adjunct Instructor-Art; Assistant Professor-Art,      Temporary

Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX Artist-in-Residence/Art Instructor

The Book Shoppe, Fort Worth, TX Co-Owner; 1997-2011 

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Education

M.F.A., Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

M.A., Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Post-Graduate, Film, University of North Texas, Denton, TX

B.S., Drama/Music, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX