found/forgotten

Taylor Bailey
September 13 - October 15, 2021

Taylor Bailey

ABout the Artist

Taylor Bailey is a visual artist working in Austin, Texas. She pursued a degree from Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas where she majored in both Studio Art (Painting focus) and Art History. She is now the Executive Director of Contracommon, a nonprofit arts collective in Bee Cave, Texas, which strives to support emerging artists through community and collaboration. Her practice is largely based in drawing and printmaking techniques, and explores themes of memory, identity, psychogeography and place-making.

found/forgotten uses familiar elements of nature as a way to explore identity, place, and belonging. Featuring experimental installation work utilizing stone, rock, and dirt in combination with light and sound, the exhibition creates ethereal and unfamiliar scenes within the context of the gallery. This liminal space, introduced to viewers at the end of a winding path of suspended charcoal drawings, will engage visitors to experience the duality of both a novel unfamiliarity and nostalgic sense of belonging through the use of commonplace earthly materials and imagery of the landscapes of Far West Texas.

“While I work in a combination of large and small-scale works, and across a variety of mediums, my work is directly centered in engagement with the raw and unfiltered landscape of Far West Texas. In my practice, I am interested in exploring the concept of place – place as beyond (but not without) a geographic location, but also as an incorporeal entity, a way of “being” in the world, and a way for people to find order and connection in life. This exploration of place also relates to concepts of psychogeography, identity, memory and nostalgia.”