Katherine Taylor鈥檚 Reflective Plane on view at Center for Art & Theatre Sept. 28 – Oct. 20
Katherine Taylor’s “Park Median,” oil on cavnas
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Atlanta-based artist Katherine Taylor, known for her powerful and sometimes ominous paintings, challenges perceptions with her exhibition 鈥淩eflection Plane,鈥� on view at 秋葵视频鈥檚 Contemporary Gallery at the Center for Art & Theatre from Sept. 25 to Oct. 20. The public is invited to learn more about Taylor and her work during an Artist Talk on Oct. 19 at 5 p.m. in Arts Building, room 2071. A reception will follow at 6 p.m. at the Center for Art & Theatre. 鈥淩eflection Plane鈥� acknowledges the deep influence our perception of the landscape has on the environment. The paintings depict engineered spaces that mirror the boundaries of sky and water, always directing attention back to the surface. The works show direct observations framed, snapped or stopped in action with intact portions of railings, pools, signs or concrete structures grounding the view. 鈥淚 paint with an awareness of the emotional territory of our shifting physical world,鈥� said Taylor. 鈥淭he paintings operate with perceptions of distance to bring abstract surfaces into being by accessing illusions of moving space with fixed impressions of deep space. Coupled with the geometry that orders our lives, these images in painting examine the environmental conditions of our world.鈥� Taylor鈥檚 work has been featured in numerous publications including 鈥淣ew American Paintings,鈥� 鈥淎rt Papers,鈥� 鈥淭he Boston Globe鈥� and the newly published book 鈥淧ainted Landscapes: Contemporary Views.鈥� Her work has also been included in exhibitions internationally, including the Quebec City Biennale, Quebec, Canada; Diverseworks, Houston, Texas; The Albany Museum of Art, Albany, Georgia; Marietta Cobb Museum of Art, Marietta, Georgia; and at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, the Museum of Contemporary Art Atlanta and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia. 鈥淚 am excited to exhibit Taylor鈥檚 work here at Georgia Southern,鈥� said Gallery Director Jason Hoelscher. 鈥淭aylor鈥檚 paintings are an intriguing mix of eras and implications that take some time and consideration to detect. They initially look like abstract works but are in fact fairly representational, which lends them a spatial complexity not often found in, say, modernist approaches to pictorial flatness. At the same time, the works play interesting games with the notion of a painted surface, a painterly agenda that complicates the relationship between the painting as an object covered with paint, and an imaginary window through which we view a painted scene.鈥� The College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS) is the largest of the eight colleges that make up 秋葵视频, and it plays a central role in every student鈥檚 core of knowledge. CLASS, also described as the University鈥檚 College of the Creative Mind, prepares students to achieve academic excellence, develop their analytical skills, enhance their creativity and embrace their responsibilities as citizens of their communities, their nations and the world. CLASS offers more than 20 undergraduate degrees and several interdisciplinary minors from its 11 departments and five academic centers. CLASS offers eight master鈥檚 degrees, two graduate certificates and one doctoral degree. For more information, visit class.georgiasouthern.edu. 秋葵视频, a public Carnegie Doctoral/Research University founded in 1906, offers 118 degree programs serving 20,673 students. Through eight colleges, the University offers bachelor鈥檚, master鈥檚 and doctoral degree programs built on more than a century of academic achievement. Georgia Southern is recognized for its student-centered and hands-on approach to education. Visit .