BIOGRAPHY

Taylor Renee is a Los Angeles-based interdisciplinary artist.

She attended Cypress College where she earned an Associated Degree in Liberal Arts and then transferred to the University of California, Los Angeles where received her degree in Art with a minor in African American Studies.

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"My practice has evolved into an investigation that is centered around two guiding questions: What is the definition of Blackness? And what is its visual language?

To explore these questions, I turn both inward and outward; towards my own personal memory and family history and the collective heritage and culture. My practice explores these questions through a variety of mediums and is steeped in the textures and materials of the culture: hair, indigo, fabric, and ideas and inspirations from my family archives. Portraiture, poetry, abstraction, and mask-making are forms of art making that not only serve not only as forms of expression, but have become reoccurring tools in my ongoing exploration.

Each piece I create is an attempt to deconstruct this preconceived idea of Blackness that I've found quite unattainable and rebuild a comprehensive definition for myself. I create to highlight both the beauties and contradictions within the layers of Black identity. Rather than offering immediate resolutions, my work welcomes complexities. "

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-Taylor