Artist Bio

Taylor O. Thomas
Born in Birmingham, AL, 1990
 

Taylor O. Thomas was born in Birmingham, Alabama and now lives and works as a visual artist in Tampa, Florida. Thomas’s abstract paintings and drawings have been exhibited in galleries and private collections in the United States, Italy, and China.  In 2012, she graduated magna cum laude from Davidson College with a BA in Studio Art, and has since used painting as a means of investigating human tendencies, identity formation, and the interconnectedness between the body and mind. 

Thomas views her works as physical iterations of the inner self, noting, “My layered gestures serve as indexical traces of my mental and emotional concerns.  Mark making is my way of creating an interface between my personal narrative and the abstracted reinterpretations of that narrative that extend my story beyond myself.  When confronting my works, viewers are given a chance to recognize and question their own relationships between the internal, the external, and the varying degrees of self-expression today.”

Thomas recently received the University Graduate Fellowship from the University of South Florida, where she is currently earning her MFA degree.  Her works are represented by Nomad Collective (Nashville, TN) and Emily Friedman Fine Art (Los Angeles, CA).

info @ taylorothomas (dot) com