faculty profile

Josephine Taylor’s large-scale drawings are made with ink on paper. They show human relationships as both beneficent and catastrophic--exploring dynamics of power, love, abuse, vulnerability, anger, and infatuation. Her previous body of work (2006-2008), consisting of evaporated Sumi ink drawings and shadow prints, looked at family dependence as a means to survival after an imagined apocalypse.  Her current drawings focus on the theme of physical deterioration and how relationships react to it. In these drawings, the protagonists are deformed--bulging heads, skinless bodies, missing limbs---yet are still strangely beautiful and still loved by someone.