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Jeffery Taylor

Visual Artist

About the artist: Artist
Curator
Father
Husband
Jeffery E Taylor
Maker


The above list is neither comprehensive nor arranged in order of importance.
It’s simply alphabetized.

Some have suggested I learn to compartmentalize my life. I guess that means I should put separations between manifestations of being in time and space just as corporations partition workers in sterile cubicles discouraging interaction in order to maximize efficiency. I should polish facets as on a gem, connected but grossly separate, existing in inseparable proximity to others yet unaware of integral links to infinite possibilities. I have chosen otherwise. I am not a box.

I’ll not now launch into a protracted discourse of woe instead let it suffice to say in 40 years I have experienced much. I am beginning to understand life as a great sphere with a liquid skin swirling, mixing. Tides ebb and flow. Storms build to pour out their fury then dissipate revealing from a former manifestation a new purpose. Moments as they pass usher choice. I am given an innate authority to choose, but only for myself. Individuals, groups, governments choose. I make art to understand these choices. Until I understand I will make art.

Jeffery E. Taylor
2109 Emerywood Rd.
Greensboro, NC 27403
(336) 323-6450 (h), (336) 333-7485 (o)
jtaylorcva@aol.com

Education
Bachelor of Fine Arts, in Crafts May 2002, Virginia Commonwealth University, School of the Arts
Summa Cum Laude
Richmond, Virginia
With concentrations in Metalsmithing and Jewelry

John Tyler Community College
Chester, Virginia
1997-1999, Art Foundation

Work Experience

March 2006- Curator, Center for Visual Artists, Greensboro, NC

January 2005-present Teaching Staff, Center for Visual Artists, Greensboro, NC

2002-present Maintaining a metal art studio in Greensboro, NC

1999-present Free-lance photography and portfolio development for artists

1997-2002 Colonial Metalcrafts Hand building early American Richmond, Virginia lighting fixtures

Summer 1999 Turpin’s Forge Blacksmith
Aylett, Virginia

1996-1997 Buhrman and Son’s Two stroke engine repair
Richmond, Virginia

1987-1996 Electric Motor & Repair Co. Machinist and mechanic
Richmond, Virginia

1984-1987 Avondale Shipbuilding Inc. Welder and Fitter
Avondale, Louisiana






Exhibitions

2006 “Art and War” Elon University, Elon, NC

2006 “Sit a Spell” Moring Art Center, Asheboro, NC

2004 “Rings,” NC State University, Gallery of Art and Design
Curator: Robert Ebendorf

2003 “Convergence,” Group Show with Frank Russell and Sheri Skeehan
The Marshall Gallery, Greensboro, NC

2003 “Why we do the things we do,” Group Show with Rhyan Forman, Frank Russell, Sheri Skeehan, and Mark Trull
Greensboro Artist’s League, Greensboro, NC

2002 “Amalgam,” An Invitational of recent BFA and MFA graduates, Slocumb
Gallery, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN

2002 “Materials: Hard and Soft,” The Meadows Gallery,
The Center for the Visual Arts, Denton, Texas

2001 “The Schwa Show,” Emerge Gallery, Greenville, North Carolina

2001 “Exhibition 2021,” Schwarzschild Jewelers, Richmond, Virginia

2001 Society of North American Goldsmiths Juried National Student Show
The Richmond Omni Hotel, Richmond, Virginia

2000 Society of North American Goldsmiths Juried National Student Show
Royal Sonesta Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts

Major Commissions

2004 Ira Wertenteil, Colorado

2000 Children’s Museum of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia

1998 Rampager’s, Ram’s Stadium, St. Louis, Missouri







Awards and Recognition

2001 Friends of Emerge Award
Emerge Gallery, Greenville, NC

2000-2001 Allan Eastman Scholarship
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia

2000-2001 Undergraduate Fellowship
The Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, Virginia



1999-2001 Dean’s Scholarship
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia

Publications

Fall 2004 1000 Rings, Lark Books

Workshops

Spring 2004 Art Business Boot Camp
Clyde, North Carolina

Summer 2001 Pots: Beyond Process
Penland School of Crafts, Penland, North Carolina
Instructor: Bobby Silverman

Summer 2000 Pewter-smithing
Peter’s Valley, Layton, New Jersey
Instructor: Fred Fenster

Summer 1998 Creativity Workshop
Hand Workshop Arts Center, Richmond, Virginia
Instructor: Michele Delano






Support Activities

Juror Central Carolina Fair, Youth and Adult Art
Juror “Insert Title Here”, Elon University

References


(Curatorial) Mark Brown
Executive Director, Center for Visual Artists
336.333.7485
jnycmpfr@aol.com

(Metal-working) Jason Frederic, President
Colonial Metalcrafts
336.358.6000

(Teaching & Art) David Newton
Assistant Professor of Sculpture
Guilford College
336.316.2249
dnewton@guilford.edu

(Teaching & Art) Betsy Bailey
Education Director, Center for Visual Artists
336.333.7475
bbaileycva@aol.com