May 16 - June 28, 2025
Katherine Taylor
TERRARIUM
Marcia Wood Gallery
A central motif in Taylor’s work is the landscape—shaped by both human intervention and natural forces. Her paintings explore the inevitability of change, whether sudden or imperceptibly slow, through a lens that is both poetic and precise. A master of nuance, Taylor creates mysterious, frequently ominous, and strangely beautiful compositions in her signature, subtly complex palette of grays, greens. Each work is as technically accomplished as it is emotionally resonant.
Past series have evoked the dystopian shadows of the urban landscape, the devastation left by hurricanes and floods, the distant and deceptively alluring lights reflected on the bay of her hometown of Biloxi in the exhibition Boomtown, blurred vistas glimpsed through car windows, and melancholy swimming pools filled with runoff and rainwater.
In Terrarium, Taylor turns her gaze to cultivated spaces—landscapes shaped by human intention. The presence of man is revealed only through his impact: the hand of the gardener. These are parks, gardens, and pockets of green created for solace and pleasure, where nature is tended, contained, and held momentarily still. With softly luminous tones and atmospheric depth, Taylor blends botanical detail with painterly abstraction, evoking a sense of quiet suspension. Her compositions reflect segments of aerial perspective with no horizon—images that pause and reflect movement, where water, ground, and sky merge in puzzling shallow depths.
Echoing the tradition of 18th-century landscape painting, Taylor reimagines the garden as both a refuge and a reflection. These paintings, in her words, are “portraits of nature suspended in the colors of atmosphere”—fragments of authentic life preserved within the fragile boundaries of human care.
TERRARIUM exhibition at Marcia Wood Gallery , Magnolia Haze , Acrylic on Canvas , 72” x 60”
KatherineTaylor , Pool/ Pond oil on paper AUCTION selection MOCA GA and Marcia Wood
Sky Water
MOCA Georgia Online Auction : Begins September 20, 2020 The auction with begin on September 20th. Join MOCA GA September 26th for the fundraising event at 6:30 pm. More details to come.
MOCA GA will hold a one-of-a-kind virtual auction and fundraising event featuring a collection of Atlanta's most notable galleries.The evening will feature art carried by local galleries, and honor and spotlight them and the artists they represent. We invite you to join this virtual celebration and bid on exceptional Georgia artwork in support of the museum and the Atlanta arts scene! Featuring: Alan Avery Art Company, Arnika Dawkins Gallery, Kai Lin Gallery, Jackson Fine Art, Marcia Wood Gallery, Mason Fine Art, Poem 88, Sandler Hudson Gallery, September Gray Art Gallery, Spalding Nix Gallery, Thomas Deans Gallery, TEW Galleries, and Whitespace Gallery
Reflection Plane, September 25- October 20, 2017 Georgia Southern University Contemporary Gallery, Center for Art and Theatre, Statesboro Georgia
Reflection Plane acknowledges the deep influence our perception of the landscape has on the environment. The paintings depict engineered spaces that mirror the boundaries of sky and water always directing attention back to the surface.
The works show direct observations framed, snapped, or stopped in action with intact portions of railings, pools, signs, or concrete structures grounding the view.
Encroachment
Painted Landscapes : Contemporary Views, Heritage Museums and Gardens, Sandwich, Massachusetts, April 15 - October 9, 2017
Painted Landscapes: Contemporary Views features American landscape paintings executed in a variety of media from 49 of the country’s best contemporary painters. The artists use the traditional genre of landscape painting in compelling new ways, addressing contemporary issues of land use, nature appreciation, and ecology through their paintings of the American environment. Each artist featured takes acute notice of the physical world at a time of heightened awareness of the landscape, informed by today’s concerns including climate change, environmental health, conservation and the green movement.
Barrier Island
REVIEW: Art Pulse 2015
Katherine Taylor: Moving Horizon
By Jason Hoelscher
REVIEW : ArtsATL 2015
Katherine Taylor: Moving Horizon
Marcia Wood Gallery - Midtown, Atlanta Ga.
In Moving Horizon, the works depict the geometry of our changing environment with a deep and shimmering view of landscape. Memory, loss, image and space are all collapsed onto the surface of paintings that represent escape as a swift and slow illusion from city to shore. The car window frames a rapidly shifting line of sight and the transient structures that organize our roadways.