Artist Conversation 1

The artist, Madeline Taylor, is currently undergraduate at CSULB in her senior year. She is also in the School of Art’s Studio Arts Program as well as a student at the Cinema Makeup School. Madeline expressed a strong interest in make-up including special effects make-up. Her works explore abstraction and nature.

In Taylor’s piece she used oil on canvas. Her lines and shape are smooth but also wavy. She uses warm colors in the foreground with some cold colors peeping through the background. The rhythm of her painting is flowing and it is on a large scale. Her piece was large; one would have to step back to experience the entire painting.

The question asked to Taylor was, “What was going through your mind, when painting this?” She mentioned that music and how she thinks the sound waves flow inspired her piece. The exhibition was titled Organic Matter because most of the work including Taylors show an emphasis on organic and biomorphic forms. Her piece does portray an organic and natural feeling.

When I first walked over to the different galleries, I briefly looked at them from outside the doors. Then I saw the Dennis W. Dutzi Gallery filled with such vibrant color and so I chose to walk into that one. I was particularly interested with Taylor’s piece because when I looked at it, it felt as though I was looking into something such as looking inside some sort of tissue of the human body. I am usually not a fan of just “looking” at stuff, but in her work, I experienced a 2d piece in a way that it felt 3d.