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Artist: Maggie Taylor (USA)
Artwork: Book
Title: 'Internal Logic' (w/ 'The Gathering')
Year: 2022
Limited Edition: Book~ 29/100 / Photomontage Image ~ 8/25
Dimensions: H= 28.5cm x W= 33.5cm
Pages: 176
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This beautiful limited edition book is a collection of digitally composited surreal photomontage images by artist Maggie Taylor with an essay by Mark Sloan. 117 color plates. The works span the years 2012-2021. As a special edition, it also includes an 8" x 8" limited edition of Maggie Taylor Photomontage ~ 'The Gathering'. |
Curate Art & Design is delighted to be the exclusive Australian-based representative for the fascinating works of Maggie Taylor - an internationally renowned digital artist and visual storyteller.
"I think of the work as visual storytelling, though the stories are never quite complete. Each image is a kind of riddle or open-ended poem—something to enter rather than solve. What may look surreal often follows its own internal logic. The images move according to dream logic: associative, symbolic, and quietly coherent beneath the surface.
People sometimes see autobiography in the work, and they’re right in a way. The scenes grow out of lived experience, though the connections are disguised and rarely literal.
The work is deeply rooted in nineteenth-century photography. I use tintypes, daguerreotypes, and ambrotypes from my personal collection—anonymous portraits made in the earliest decades of the medium. Freed from their original identities, these figures become collaborators in new narratives. There’s a particular tension in letting historical artifacts wander into imagined worlds.
I want the images to feel at once whimsical and quietly unsettling—grounded in the textures of early photography while opening onto something speculative. Ideally, the viewer steps into the middle of a story already in motion, sensing that something began before them and will continue after they leave."
Maggie Taylor is a contemporary artist based on the edge of a sun-drenched prairie outside Gainesville, Florida, a landscape of cows, alligators, and migratory birds. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1961, she moved to Florida at age eleven.
After earning a degree in philosophy from Yale University and a master’s degree in photography from the University of Florida, she began exploring digital imaging in the 1990s, when the medium was still new. She was among the first artists to adopt Photoshop as a fine art tool, drawn to its potential for layered digital photomontage.
Her work has been widely exhibited and is held in numerous museum collections, including The Center for Creative Photography, Tucson; George Eastman Museum, Rochester; Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville; Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas; The High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans; Princeton University Art Museum; Harvard Art Museums; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; The Cleveland Museum of Art; and The Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
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