Maggie Taylor, Spring Break, 2021, Archival pigment print, 15x15", Edition of 15, $2800 |
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As the Gallery Assistant, one of my favorite things to do is sit back and watch visitors try to decipher a Maggie Taylor photograph for the first time. They move forward and backward, sometimes with a little bit of confusion, and I know what their question is going to be before they even ask it:
"Is this a picture or a painting?"
It's easy to see where the unsuspecting viewer could be fooled. Taylor's compositions are digitally constructed with thousands of layers of photographs, scanned objects and textures, the artist makes invented worlds into material ones through her masterful use of Photoshop—and the results are magnificent. Internal Logic is the eighth book from Maggie Taylor, published by Moth House Press in January of 2022, that shows off some of the most brazen successes of this past decade of the artist's career.
As one of the pre-eminent masters of photomontage, Taylor's style has been emulated by many, but it's the singularity of her vision that ultimately makes Taylor's own "internal logic" apparent. There is, of course, also the brilliant sequencing choice of beginning and ending the book with two similar compositions made ten years apart, between which we find dogs in tutus, boats and zebra stripes and luscious bouquets.
Internal Logic is a title that truly lets you into Maggie Taylor's world and we're so excited to celebrate it. View more images from the book below (they're all available as prints as well!) and mark your calendars for Saturday, August 6th, 2022 for an event at photo-eye Gallery!
>> photo-eye Conversation with Maggie Taylor and Anne Kelly <<
A spread from Internal Logic |
Maggie Taylor, Well Then, 2015, Archival pigment print, 8x8", Edition of 15, $1500 |
Maggie Taylor, The Bargain, 2018, Archival pigment print, 8x8", Edition of 15, $1500 |
A spread from Internal Logic featuring Maggie Taylor's signature five-color ribbon |
Maggie Taylor, The Toast of Last Night, Archival pigment print, 15x15", Edition of 15, $2800 |
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Internal Logic. By Maggie Taylor
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Maggie Taylor's Internal Logic is available in a standard trade edition as well as a limited edition that includes a choice of an editioned 8x8" print!
>> View Internal Logic in the bookstore here <<
>> Maggie Taylor on her process and references <<
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Print costs are current up to the time of posting and are subject to change. All images from Internal Logic are available individually as archival pigment prints.
photo-eye Gallery is proud to represent Maggie Taylor.
For more information, and to purchase prints by Maggie Taylor, please contact Gallery Director Anne Kelly or Gallery Assistant Delaney Hoffman, or you may also call us at 505-988-5152 x202