Laura Taylor
Laura Taylor is a painter and writer whose multicultural background deeply influences her artistic output, drawing from a life lived between the United States, Brazil, and Canada. Utilizing impasto layering, scraping, and intentional simplicity, she works in oils and artist’s books, blending geometric rhythms of Brazilian modernism with poetic, memory-laden imagery. Her paintings—often evoking the architecture of home and fleeting family moments—convey a poignant emotional landscape of belonging, displacement, and the delicate interplay between memory and identity, inviting viewers to find traces of their own stories within her vibrant, tactile worlds. A member of The Painting Center, in New York City, from 1996 to 2008, she has exhibited nationally and internationally and has been awarded residencies in Austria, Germany, and through out the United States. She is currently represented by Hawk and Hive gallery in Andes, New York, where she recently had a solo exhibit. Her work has been exhibited at ArtUp Gallery in Margaretville, New York and at the Bushel Collective, in Delhi, New York. In June, 2026 she will attend the Disquiet Literary Program in Lisbon, Portugal, where she was awarded a partial scholarship, to participate in a workshop entitled “Writing the Luso Experience.”
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Laura Taylor is a painter and writer whose multicultural background deeply influences her artistic output, drawing from a life lived between the United States, Brazil, and Canada. Utilizing impasto layering, scraping, and intentional simplicity, she works in oils and artist’s books, blending geometric rhythms of Brazilian modernism with poetic, memory-laden imagery. Her paintings—often evoking the architecture of home and fleeting family moments—convey a poignant emotional landscape of belonging, displacement, and the delicate interplay between memory and identity, inviting viewers to find traces of their own stories within her vibrant, tactile worlds. A member of The Painting Center, in New York City, from 1996 to 2008, she has exhibited nationally and internationally and has been awarded residencies in Austria, Germany, and through out the United States. She is currently represented by Hawk and Hive gallery in Andes, New York, where she recently had a solo exhibit. Her work has been exhibited at ArtUp Gallery in Margaretville, New York and at the Bushel Collective, in Delhi, New York. In June, 2026 she will attend the Disquiet Literary Program in Lisbon, Portugal, where she was awarded a partial scholarship, to participate in a workshop entitled “Writing the Luso Experience.”