My installation piece entitled "GROWING" is an autobiographical work, composed of 16" square panels. The entire piece is derived from a woman's experience in this society from a personal, political, and spiritual viewpoint. A wide variety of materials are used, representing the many components of life's fabric. "GROWING" is a work in progress. ELYSE TAYLOR
At the bottom are Reviewer comments.
Noisy Le Grand | A Set of Abstract Rules | A Higher Power |
Ringed Pentacle | So's Yours | Puzzle |
Loss | Earth Sign | Mural |
Casualty | Home Town | Pencil Woman |
I'll Change | Art Opening | See the Light |
Growing 2 | Draw Me | Album |
Cutting Edge | Uncover | In the Past |
Smile | Virus | Only Child |
Circle Faces | Tea Time | Model Family |
Untitled | Here or There | Be an Artist* |
Button Woman | Finest Quality Nylon | Hike |
Ages Five and Up | Way Up | The Truth |
Memorial to the Past | Vacation Portrait | Attitude |
Sold | Mixed Bag | Yearbook |
Have a Pleasant Day | Broken Mirror | Tiananmen |
Ghosts | A Slow Burn | Wood Duck |
Pencilscape | Group | Joyce's Place |
Elyse Taylor | Artist | It's Out There |
Shades of Gray | Open Up | Queen of the Ranch |
Car Doors | Doctor Dick's Super Sparkle | Two Important Men |
Galapagos | Sept. 9, 1995 Haircut | Growing 1 |
Grandma | You Can't Lose | Don't Go! |
Stir it Up! | Negative | Pencil* |
To Heal | Hoppy | Car Parts Spiral |
Step | Growth | Away Renee |
Still Life | T-Shirt | Web |
Yellow | Pink, Blue, Neutral | Good Humor Man |
Power Scrubs | Good For Me | Ups and Downs |
Wallpaper Woman | The Vest | Four |
Mural Dedication | Red to Pink | Multiplism |
25th Anniversary W.A.S. | Apparitions | Presenting |
Venus Nouveau | My Project | House Beautiful |
Bad Boy, Be True, Be Mine | Prospect Park | White on White |
The Nose | Signs of the Times | Gifts |
Milton | Beret | Photo Shoot |
Cat | Memento | Whose History? |
Roberto | Is | Another Still Life |
Knit-Live | B and B | Studio |
Odds and Ends | Mother's Dream | Community |
It's a Wrap | Wedding Day | Mexi Masks |
Mask | Stuck Rubber Baby | American Sampler |
Doodle | The War | Graduation |
Icon | Do Lunch | Sweater |
You are Welcome to Take the Plane | Eld | Art Talk |
Inner Space | Telly | Dad |
???? | In the Clouds | Prime Time |
I'm Strong | Pete | Renewal |
Winner by a Neck | Botanical | At the Top |
A Woman's Place | Nantasket Beach Go | For It |
In the Flesh | Hype | Karen |
Take Note | Rick x 12 | Made in USA |
Car Abstract | Minimalism | Car Man |
Europe 83 | A Child's Vision | Hexagram |
I'm Hungry | Monument | Brothers |
Loss of Innocence | A Famiily Serving | Happy Birthday |
Minority | Sign | First Grade Report Card |
Frank | Bunny | Rick and the Regulars |
Cozumel | Chop | The Dots |
Pumped Up | Button Abstract | Sweet Tooth |
Grand Palais | Growing Up | A Steady Stream |
Jill | Censored | At Play |
WWII | Class | Demon |
Class of '55 | Secret | Hands On |
Grandma's Buttons | Influence | You're a Doll |
The Artist | Seeing Red | Up and Away |
Sense of Loss | The Belt | Cousin Stanley |
In the Dark | The Club | Valetta |
Red Hook by the Sea | I Do | Free |
446 Tears | Junkyard | Abstract 1 |
Long Time Ago | Why Alex? | View From Red Hook |
Mother and Child | The Gang With | Love, Marilyn |
Better Babies | I Look Good | Too Much Sun |
In GROWING, Elyse Taylor uses everything at her disposal to tell a woman's story, with honesty and humor, which is both
extremely personal and universal. Richly varied and episodic, Taylor's panels depict the range of her talents and the
depths of her feelings.
Richard L. Davidman - DFN Gallery, New York, NY
The piece de résistance is the wall "tiled" with canvases recording the artist Elyse Taylor's "Passage in Life"
Vivien Raynor - The New York Times
Working with recycled and found materials, paint, collage, rug samples, and just about anything else, Taylor unleashes
some genuine feminist wit that is not meant to sting, but to reflect.
Marilyn J. Fox - The Reading Eagle
GROWING becomes both Taylor's autobiography and the story of all women. Whether it's an imitation of her high
school yearbook picture or abstract references to the holocaust and the discrimination women face in the work force,
Taylor's vibrant, engaging fusion of the personal and universal makes her work stand out.
Susan Josephs - The Jewish Week
As GROWING panels continue to be produced, the forging of links goes from the community to the studio, from her
world to ours, as her art and activism connect us to each other.
Maria Epes - Artist
Elyse Taylor incorporates moments and memories into a rich tapestry that speaks to the varied rhythms of life
experience.
Sharon Vatsky- Curator of Education, Queens Museum of Art