An Evening with Maggie Taylor
Artist Talk & Reception
February 18, 6 - 8 p.m.
About the Artist:
Maggie Taylor is an artist who lives on the edge of a sun-drenched prairie populated by cows, alligators and birds on the outskirts of Gainesville, Florida. She was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1961, and moved to Florida at the age of 11. Her childhood was spent watching countless hours of situation comedies and science fiction on television; later she received a philosophy degree from Yale University. A little later she got a master's degree in photography from the University of Florida.
“I create images, and that is much more important to me than explaining what the images mean. There is just no telling what they mean to other people anyway.”
©Maggie Taylor, Twilight swim, 2004
© Maggie Taylor, The day sailor, 2020
Her digital composites have been widely exhibited and have been collected by many museums including the following: The Center for Creative Photography, Tucson; The George Eastman House, Rochester; Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville; Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas; The High Museum, Atlanta; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans; The Art Museum, Princeton University; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland; The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; and The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara.
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The artist’s image Twilight swim (2003) was recently acquired by the museum and is included in the ongoing exhibition:
Collected: Connecting Past, Present & Future Acquisitions
On display through March 26, 2025
The Southeast Museum of Photography’s collection has been carefully cultivated over the years, representing a wide range of photographic styles, genres and techniques. Collected presents 114 works by 50 artists, including some of the most innovative photographers of the 20th century. This diverse presentation includes Lola Alvarez Bravo, Harry Callahan, Lotte Jacobi, Yusuf Karsh, Sally Mann, Duane Michals, Barbara Morgan, Robert Rauschenberg, Maggie Taylor, Jerry Uelsmann, Andy Warhol and Edward Weston, among others.
Collected also highlights the recent growth of the museum’s holdings in contemporary art, presenting new acquisitions generously donated by Colin Finlay, Michael Grecco, Andy Mattern, Lara Rossignol and Christian Weber.
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Southeast Museum of Photography | Madorsky Theater
The Madorsky Theater is located in the Mori Hosseini Building at Daytona State College, 1200 West International Speedway Blvd., Daytona Beach, FL 32114