ON VIEW
May 9 – 18, 2024
EXHIBITION OPENING
Thurs, May 9, 5 – 7 pm
May 9 – 18, 2024
EXHIBITION OPENING
Thurs, May 9, 5 – 7 pm
taylorglenn.art
Based in California and Maine, artist Taylor Glenn (b. 2000) focuses on feminism, materiality, and intimate relationships through the use of textiles and found objects in large sculpturally-informed works. Influenced by her formal training as a graphic designer, Glenn gravitates toward color harmonies and material histories in analog and digital forms. She graduated with her BFA from Laguna College of Art + Design, with honors in 2022 and with her MFA from Maine College of Art & Design in 2024. Glenn has exhibited her work across the country in galleries, museums, collaborative zines, and virtual curations including The Festival of Arts and The Sawdust Festival in Laguna Beach, CA and the Zand Head Gallery in Portland, ME. Glenn currently teaches in the Illustration department at Laguna College of Art + Design and teaches art workshops through an educational non-profit organization. She is also a published poet.
My work explores human connectivity through objects and our intimate relationships with non-living forms, the environment, and others through a feminist perspective. In my work, two modes of making are present: assemblage with found objects and hand-making in the traditional sense of craft practices. Through the making process, I form a profound yet awkward closeness with these objects using the proximity of the material to its counterpart and my own touch. I fuse my personal mythology with those of others through the narratives stored in the object itself. I utilize the softness and familiarity of materials to showcase a more human side to our object-dependent evolution. As I unravel intimacy, I untangle what support systems look like regarding interpersonal relationships and societal structures using the act of leaning and architectural dependencies in sculptural structures. Current work investigates the inherent strength among softness while examining the concept of comfort through bundling, disguising seemingly weighted objects with feminine attributes. As someone who often struggles with forming deep connections with others, I make work to seek closeness and vulnerability. I aim to grapple with and prove that we are not as isolated as we might imagine by exposing the interwoven links to unknown people (past and present) through objects, whether bought, abandoned, donated, or found.
Taylor Glenn
Based in California and Maine, artist Taylor Glenn (b. 2000) focuses on feminism, materiality, and intimate relationships through the use of textiles and found objects in large sculpturally-informed works. Influenced by her formal training as a graphic designer, Glenn gravitates toward color harmonies and material histories in analog and digital forms. She graduated with her BFA from Laguna College of Art + Design, with honors in 2022 and with her MFA from Maine College of Art & Design in 2024. Glenn has exhibited her work across the country in galleries, museums, collaborative zines, and virtual curations including The Festival of Arts and The Sawdust Festival in Laguna Beach, CA and the Zand Head Gallery in Portland, ME. Glenn currently teaches in the Illustration department at Laguna College of Art + Design and teaches art workshops through an educational non-profit organization. She is also a published poet.
My work explores human connectivity through objects and our intimate relationships with non-living forms, the environment, and others through a feminist perspective. In my work, two modes of making are present: assemblage with found objects and hand-making in the traditional sense of craft practices. Through the making process, I form a profound yet awkward closeness with these objects using the proximity of the material to its counterpart and my own touch. I fuse my personal mythology with those of others through the narratives stored in the object itself. I utilize the softness and familiarity of materials to showcase a more human side to our object-dependent evolution. As I unravel intimacy, I untangle what support systems look like regarding interpersonal relationships and societal structures using the act of leaning and architectural dependencies in sculptural structures. Current work investigates the inherent strength among softness while examining the concept of comfort through bundling, disguising seemingly weighted objects with feminine attributes. As someone who often struggles with forming deep connections with others, I make work to seek closeness and vulnerability. I aim to grapple with and prove that we are not as isolated as we might imagine by exposing the interwoven links to unknown people (past and present) through objects, whether bought, abandoned, donated, or found.
The MFA Thesis Exhibition for the Class of 2024 is a multidisciplinary exhibition unified by an urgency each of these MFA candidates expresses for what they see as fundamental to our shared experience of an increasingly disconnected world. With an emphasis on the personal, and at times the anecdotal, the artwork featured by these 12 artists varies in media to include ceramics, installation, painting, performance, photography, printmaking, video, sculpture, and zines. Seen together, these thesis projects hybridize a range of conceptual themes and material approaches as they relate to visual culture, the political landscape, and contemporary art practice. The nature of this work and research demonstrates the caliber and cultural relevance achieved by these graduates of Maine College of Art & Design’s Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art program. Our studio-based curriculum creates a transformative learning experience and is designed to encourage students to follow where their work leads them, supporting them to define a sustainable vision for their own art practice through individualized research, critical analysis, and curatorial experimentation.
Institute of Contemporary Art
at Maine College of Art & Design
522 Congress St. Portland, ME 04101
Gallery Hours:
Wed–Sun, 11:00am–5:00pm,
Thursday, 11:00am–7:00pm