Ann Harrold Taylor
Lives and works in Berkeley, CA
Instagram: @annharroldtaylor
Twitter: @Ann_H_Taylor
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Education
M.F.A. Art Studio, University of California, Davis, CA
B.A. Art History, B.A. French, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Leo Marchutz School of Painting and Drawing, Aix-en-Provence, France
Institute for American Universities, Aix-en-Provence, France
Teaching Experience
2001 Adjunct Professor, Drawing, California State University, Sacramento, CA
1999 Adjunct Professor, Painting, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1987-93 Adjunct Professor, Drawing and Painting, Sacramento City College, Sacramento, CA
1987 Adjunct Professor, Painting, American River College, Sacramento, CA
1986 Adjunct Professor, Drawing, Sierra College, Rocklin, CA
1985 Teaching Assistant to Manuel Neri, Figure Drawing, University of California, Davis, CA
Teaching Assistant to Wayne Thiebaud, Theory and Criticism of Art, University of California, Davis, CA
1984 Teaching Assistant to Cornelia Schultz, Materials and Carriers, University of California, Davis, CA
Teaching Assistant to Wayne Thiebaud, Figure Painting, University of California, Davis, CA
Solo Exhibitions
2000 Plaza Gallery, Bank of America Center, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artist Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999 55 Mercer Street Gallery, New York, NY
Michael Himovitz Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1996 Bell Memorial Union, California State University, Chico, CA
1994 San Bernardino County Museum, Redlands, CA
1992 West Los Angeles City Hall Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Judith Weintraub Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1991 Branner Spangenberg Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
1990 Judith Weintraub Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1989 Davis Art Center, Davis, CA
1988 City Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1987 American River College Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1986 Anna Gardner Gallery, Stinson Beach, CA
Napa Valley College, Napa, CA
Himovitz/Salomon Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1985 M.F.A. Exhibition, Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA
1981 Art Works Gallery, Fair Oaks, CA
1980 Barrios Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1979 Roseville Art Center, Roseville, CA
1978 River Road Gallery, Locke, CA
Group Exhibitions
2021 Wayne Thiebaud Influencer: A New Generation, Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, California,
Curated by Founding Director Rachel Teagle, Susie Kantor, Dan Nadel, Quintana Heathman, and Sampada Aranke, including Andrea Bowers, Christopher Brown, Robert Colescott, Alex Israel, Bruce Nauman, Jason Stopa, Jonas Wood, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, and many others.
2018 Combat Shock, Soso Grotto, Los Angeles, CA Curated by Chris Hood, including Facundo Arganaraz, Jason Burgess, Keith
Boadwee, JohnFinneran, Rives Granade, Marc Horowitz, Chris Hood, Chris Johanson, Micheal John Kelly, Erica Mahinay, Max
Maslansky, Annelie McKenzie, Adam Novak, Christina Quarles, Joe Reihson, Eddie Ruscha, Kenny Scharf, Despina Stokou.
2016 I Dreamt Bees Made Sweet Honey From My Past Failure, George Lawson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2014 FILTERED: What Does Love Look Like?, Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, Idaho
Art From the Heart, University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA
2002 Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, Santa Rosa, CA
2001 Mass Appeal, R. B. Stevenson Gallery, San Diego, CA
2000 L’Ecole Marchutz, Aix, 25 Ans, Musee Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France
Abstraction: From Raucous to Refined, Bedford Gallery, Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA
Capitol’s Best, Limn Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999 Abstraction – New Directions for a New Millennium, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Introductions, Quotidian Gallery, San Francisco, CA
First Street Gallery, New York, NY
Recent Gestural Painting, County of Los Angeles Century Gallery, Los Angeles Mission College, Sylmar, CA
1998 Abstract Painting and Sculpture, Boise State University Visual Arts Center, Boise State University, Boise, ID
Synergism, Rico Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
New Visions: Introductions 98, ProArts, Oakland, CA
All California, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
The Light is Diverse in California, Center for Visual Arts, Oakland, CA
71st Crocker-Kingsley Exhibition, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
1997 The Winter Show, The Painting Center, New York, NY
SITE, Los Angeles, CA
Introduction to a New Space, Michael Himovitz Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1996 Matrix International ‘96, Matrix Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Davis Art Center, Davis, CA
1995 California Dreaming..., Bayfront Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Large Format Artworks, Phantom Galleries, Sacramento, CA
Twenty-fifth Annual Works on Paper, Southwest Texas State U., San Marcos, TX
Countdown 2000, 1078 Gallery, Chico, CA
New Images, Center for the Visual Arts, Oakland, CA
1994 2 Dimensional Contemporary, San Jose Art League Downtown Gallery, San Jose, CA
California Works, 1994 California State Fair, Sacramento, CA
69th Annual Crocker-Kingsley Exhibition, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
1992 “Her Art Works,” South Bend Art Museum, South Bend, IN
California Works, 1992 California State Fair, Sacramento, CA
67th Annual Crocker-Kingsley Exhibition, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
1991 Delights, Judith Weintraub Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Abstraction in the 90’s, Spokane Center Gallery, Eastern Washington University, WA
In Lak Esh, Collaboration of Artists and Poets, Sacramento, CA
Branner Spangenberg Gallery Artists, Davis Art Center, Davis, CA
1990 Let the Work Speak for Itself, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
Northern Illinois University Art Museum Gallery, Chicago, IL
Autumn Preview, Branner Spangenberg Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
Wallworks, L.A. Artcore, Los Angeles, CA
Pindar Gallery, New York, NY
Sacramento Artists, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artist Gallery, S.F., CA
Matrix International, Matrix Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Exhibition 1990, Berkeley Art Center Association, Berkeley, CA
1989 Works on Paper, Judith Weintraub Gallery, Sacramento, CA
San Diego Art Institute 35th Annual, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
1988 Jewish Community Center, Houston, TX
Texas College Goes South, Torngren Blicker Gallery, Sacramento, CA
California Works, 1988 California State Fair, Sacramento, CA
In the Air, Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY
Gregory Kondos Gallery, Sacramento City College, Sacramento, CA
Seated Illusions, Sierra College Gallery, Rocklin, CA
8th Annual California Water Color and Drawing Survey, Humboldt Cultural Center, Eureka, CA
Ann Harrold Taylor / Tony Natsoulas, Natsoulas Novelozo Gallery, Davis, CA
Women’s People, Matrix Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1987 Sacramento-Davis Influences I, City Gallery, Sacramento, CA
All on Paper, AAO Gallery, Buffalo, New York, NY
Jewish Community Center, Houston, TX
Small Wall Works, Amos Eno Gallery, New York, NY
North Carolina Print & Drawing Society, Greenville Museum of Art, Greenville, NC
Seventh Annual Survey, Humboldt Cultural Center, Eureka, CA
Kansas Twelfth National Small Painting, Drawing and Print Exhibition, Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS
West Coast Painters, Campus Center Gallery, University of Hawaii, Hilo, HI
North of the Gate, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA
1986 Hudson Valley ’86, Barrett House, Duchess County Art Association, Poughkeepsie, NY
ArtBridge, City Gallery, Kobe, Japan
Provincetown Art Association, MA
Summer Group Show, Anna Gardner Gallery, Stinson Beach, CA
California Works, 1986 California State Fair, Sacramento, CA
First Annual Competition, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, CA
West Coast Works On/Off Paper, Reese Bullen Gallery, Humboldt State University, CA
Sacramento Regional Arts Council, 23rd Annual Festival of the Arts, I Street Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Emerging Artists 1986, Artists Collaborative Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Berkeley Art Center Exhibition ’86, Berkeley, CA
1985 7th National All on Paper Exhibition, AAO Gallery, Buffalo, New York, NY
Artists Too, Sierra College Gallery, Rocklin, CA
20th Fine Art Institute Annual, San Bernardino County Museum, San Bernardino, CA
Pacific Grove Art Center, Pacific Grove, CA
American Figure Drawing – 1985, Phoenix Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Sacramento/Davis Interface, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
Davis at Berkeley, Heller Gallery, University of California, Berkeley, CA
4th Annual Cowtown Exhibit, Chan Elliot Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Bibliography
Catalogues and Publications
2000/01 L’Ecole Marchutz, Aix, 25 Ans, Musee Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France
1999 New American Paintings, 25th Edition, Pacific Coast, The Open Studios Press, Wellesley, MA
1994 California Works, California State Fair 1994
1992 “Her Art Works,” South Bend Art Museum, South Bend, IN
California Works, California State Fair 1992
1991 California Works, California State Fair 1991
In Lak Esh, A Collaboration of Artists and Poets, Sacramento, CA
1990 Let the Work Speak for Itself, Northern Illinois University Art Museum, DeKalb, IL
Northern Illinois University Art Museum Gallery, Chicago, IL
1987 North of the Gate, University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA
3rd Anniversary Publication, Himovitz/Salomon Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1985 Master of Fine Arts Exhibitions, Department of Art, University of California, Davis, CA
Articles
Leilani Marie Labong, Sactown Magazine, “A Lasting Impression”, January - February 2021 Issue
Zahid Sardar, Marin Magazine, “An Artists Progress,” July 2018, Pages 96-103
Debra Koppman, Artweek, “Curve & Flourish,” April 2002, Page 28
Marybeth Bizjak, Sacramento Magazine, “A Whiter Shade of Pale,” March 2002, Pages 82-83
Juan Rodriguez, Artweek, “‘Abstraction: From Raucous to Refined’ at the Bedford Gallery,” October 2000, Page 17
Colin Berry, Art Papers Magazine, “Ann Harrold Taylor,” September/October 2000, Page 54
Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, “The Last Gasps of Abstraction,” September 2, 2000, Page B1
Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, “Paintings That Can Rise Above It All,” April 1, 2000, Page B1
Victoria Dalkey, The Sacramento Bee, “Is modernism really dead?” April 25, 1999, Encore, Page 19
Josef Woodward, Los Angeles Times, “Gestural Imagery Shown in Sylmar,” March 26, 1999, Page 3
Chris Schnoor, Artweek, “Language of Abstraction at Boise State University,” April, 1999, Page 28
Chris Schnoor, Boise Weekly, “Objects of Contemplation,” March 4, 1999
Victoria Dalkey, The Sacramento Bee, “Exhibiting a Great Comeback,” April 5, 1998, Encore, Page 8
Victoria Dalkey, The Sacramento Bee, “Driven to Abstraction,” June 23, 1996, Encore, Page 13
The Davis Enterprise/Winters Express, “Davis Art Center,” Feb 22, 1996, Page 5
Michele French, Chico Enterprise-Record, “Exhibit Engages Experiences, Emotions,”Feb 3, 1996, Page 17
Chico News and Review, “Flowering Free Flow,” Feb 1, 1996
Mabrie Ormes, Chico News and Review, “Getting the Concept,” Feb 2, 1995, Page 38
Gary Kupp, Chico Enterprise-Record, “Countdown 2000: Cool, Elegant, Humorous,” Jan 29, 1995, Page 3E
Victoria Dalkey, The Sacramento Bee, “State of the Art,” August 28, 1994, Encore, Page 6
The Sacramento Bee, “Welcome to the California State Fair 1994,” August 16, 1994, Page 42
The Sun, “Two New Shows Draw Visitors to San Bernardino County Museum,” Aug 4, 1994, Page D4
Redland Daily Facts, “Exhibit Features Sculpture, Paintings,” August 3, 1994, Page A3
Victoria Dalkey, The Sacramento Bee, “Art and Soul,” May 29, 1994, Encore, Page 4
Allan M.Cordon, Artweek, “Flatlanders,” February 3, 1994, Page 16
Victoria Dalkey, The Sacramento Bee, “Gallery changes...,” January 2, 1994, Page 6
David M. Roth, News and Review, “Auspicious Beginnings,” July 8, 1993, Page 7
Art of California, “Ann Harrold Taylor, Painting,” January 1993
Randal Davis, Artweek, “The Free-Flowing Line, Ann Harrold Taylor at Judith Weintraub Gallery,” December 3, 1992, Page 21
Holly Johnson, The Sacramento Bee, “Strong Suit,” November 8, 1992
Jim Houghton, South Bend Tribune, “Her Art Works,” August 2, 1992
Victoria Dalkey, The Sacramento Bee, “Picture This,” September 28, 1990
Victoria Dalkey, The Sacramento Bee, “Competing Interests,” April 15, 1990
Janet Motendo, Sacramento Magazine, “Off the Wall,” December 1989
Del McColm, The Davis Enterprise, “Five Gallery View.” February 19, 1988
Victoria Dalkey, The Sacramento Bee, “Emerging Visions,” December 13, 1987
Ken Magri, On the Wing, “Three More Downtown,” December 1986
Victoria Dalkey, The Sacramento Bee, “Back in Sacramento,” November 30, 1986
Phyllis Bragdon, The San Rafael Independent Journal, “Rich Mix of Texture, Color, and Shape at Stinson Gallery,” July 26, 1986
Artweek, “Ann Harrold Taylor, Corner Table, July 22, 1986
Ellen Schlesinger, The Sacramento Bee, “Basking in Basics, Exhibits of Hard-Won Mastery in Davis,” June 16, 1985
Del McColm, The Davis Enterprise, “Technical Ability Tops, Variety of Media Demonstrate Proficiency of UCD,” June 13, 1985
Cynthia Cilenseck, The Daily Democrat, “Non-Glamour Featured in Local Exhibit,”June 12, 1985
Video
Nancy Gordon, Heaton Video Productions, “Contemporary Figurative Art,” Stanford, CA, May 11, 1991
Pat McConahay, KVIE Documentary, ARTS ALIVE, “City Gallery,” Sacramento, CA, December 1987
Awards
1998 First Prize Award, New Visions: Introductions 98, Proarts, Oakland, CA
1996 First Place 2-D, Matrix International ’96, Matrix Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1995 First Place, 25th Annual Works on Paper, Southwest Texas State University, TX
1994 First Place in Painting, Jurors Award, 1994 California State Fair, Sacramento, CA
1993. Gold Award, Discovery Awards, Art of California Magazine
1992 Highest Merit Award, “Her Art Works,” South Bend Indiana Art Museum, South Bend, IN
Award of Excellence, 1992, California State Fair, Sacramento, CA
1991 Award of Excellence, 1991, California State Fair, Sacramento, CA
1988 Award of Merit, 1988, California State Fair, Sacramento, CA
1986 Award of Merit, 1986, California State Fair, Sacramento, CA
Honorable Mention, Sacramento Regional Art Council, 23rd Annual Festival of the Arts
1985 Award of Merit, American Figure Drawing, Phoenix Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Phi Kappa Phi, National Scholastic Honor Society, University of California, Davis, CA
1984 Humanities Graduate Research Award, University of California, Davis, CA