taylorgreenart@outlook.com
I create the world I see around me in the way that I feel it. I observe shapes, colors, and patterns that exist naturally or in human history and use them in my art. The process of feeling different materials and experimenting with the way they interact with and inform each other is therapeutic for me. As an anthropologist/sociologist, I cannot help but to observe everything around me. This definitely influences what and how I create. While the final pieces I produce are usually paintings, my process normally includes the use of many different techniques including crochet, collage, assemblage, sculpture, and drawing. At the end of the day, I am contributing to and learning about human society through creating.
Taylor Green (b. 1999), from Waterbury and Danbury, received a BA in anthropology and sociology and is receiving an MFA in painting from Western Connecticut State University. She is a visual anthropologist who attempts to not only observe the world around her, but to understand it. She does this through creation. Her artwork stems from the human experience of wonder and exploration as well as research and advocacy. She has worked on social science projects that inspired her jump into the art world. One such project being a research assistant for the Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) gathering data on informal employment through interviews with self-proclaimed canners whose livings are based on gathering and exchanging recyclable materials in New York City.
Green’s paintings are strongly influenced by her background in social science and social justice; this means not only painting about humanitarian crises, but also the rest of the human experience. Her work has been shown at Western Connecticut State University and the Art in Common gallery in Ridgefield, CT. She is also a curator who firmly believes that art can bring together people to spark important conversations that may have never been evoked otherwise. Green is a gallery assistant in the Gallery at Western Connecticut State University and was invited by The Cultural Alliance of Western Connecticut to be the head curator for a pop-up exhibition, in 2023, at the Danbury Fair Mall called Human Connection.