Award winning multi-media artist Camilla Taylor creates inspirational prints, illustrations, consumer objects, sculptures and more, drawing upon her unique design aesthetic and fascinating concepts.
Camilla currently lives in Long Beach, attending California State University Long Beach and pursuing her MFA with an emphasis on printmaking. She exhibits her work in numerous galleries internationally, and her work will be in upcoming shows at Kayo Gallery in Salt Lake City, Trunk Space in Phoenix, and as part of the Tubular! exhibit at the Pacific Design Center here in Los Angeles.
Constantly officially recognized for her talent, she received a Los Angeles Print Society Scholarship Grant Award and demonstrated the creating of monotype prints at the FADA Los Angeles Art Show in January at the LAPS's booth. In addition, she also received the Southern Graphics Council Graduate Student Fellowship Award in February which includes a solo show at the SGC in St. Louis and a presentation at the SGC banquet dinner in Philadelphia this month.
This busy multi-media artist answered questions about inspiration, creating consumer objects as a fine artist (in part II), and about her upcoming events (in part III):
For your beautifully designed prints, which sources of inspiration do you draw upon the most?
I’m fascinated by perception, and the way it is shaped by cultural conventions and upbringing. Not everyone sees linear perspective drawn on a flat surface as receding into the distance. For many, it’s just two lines that meet at a point. Printmaking as a medium is strongly influential to my work, perhaps in sort of a similar way that many paintings are about the medium of painting. I show the whole edition of the piece at once, so there will be a room full of a sculpture repeated 20 or so times. That’s sort of the formal idea, but the mythology of the golem or the homunculus Is also very influential to my 3 dimensional constructed prints.
Interview continues! Camilla discusses the hand drawn graphic design style she brings to her creating distinctive craft items and consumer objects: Interview with multi-media artist Camilla Taylor part II: Designing consumer products
For more information on Camilla, visit her website: www.horsefleshproductions.com
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Inspirational article, interview and artist. All 3 dimensions of the writing- fascinating. Can't wait for part II of this trilogy!
Great article, Lauren! Keep up the good work!
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