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	Ravenna Taylor

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There exist in certain areas of aesthetics a common sense of measure; in this I include poetry, or in musical practice, the pleasure in counting, breathing, waiting. Even in collecting instruments of measurement when I find them at the flea market, I find my fascination with a compulsion to measure, divide and join: quilts, the chime of a clock, tiled floors, garden plans, maps, rugs, mosaics.

Through this series, I explore how to use those things, decorative, as a medium of thought. I found a particular avenue for this through a study of games and the boards designed for them it began with a chessboard I found at the flea market and on which I painted, using a shape derived from drawings I’d made of an hourglass, as


	a way of contemplating the mystery of measured time. The process of making these was a new approach for me, involving drafting tools: measuring, tracing, using straightedge and preparing a complete drawing which I then erased almost completely; but once the painting or collage began, I re-entered a more improvisational approach which led to different outcomes than I might have first planned. In this work I continue my fascination with the inter-related phenomena of perception, physical sensation, emotion and thought. I explore their resonances through the visual tools of drawing, painting and collage.

		~ Ravenna Taylor, March 2010

EDUCATION

BFA with High Distinction, 1988, California College of Arts (CCA), Oakland, California
Prior study in liberal arts, music and art: Bennington College, Vermont; Colorado College, Colorado Springs

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2010 Game Change, Galerie Cerulean, web only (www.abartonline.com) solo exhibition

2009 A Book About Death, Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery, New York City; Otis College of Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA;
Museu Brasileiro da Escultura, Sao Paolo, Brazil

2009 Lingo, Galerie Cerulean, web only (www.abartonline.com) solo exhibition

2009 Schemes and Collisions, Galerie Cerulean, web only (www.abartonline.com) solo exhibition

2007 Department of the Interior, San Francisco, CA

2003 Take Out, Dieu Donne Paper Mill, New York, NY

2003 First Person, Gallery Schlesinger, New York, NY

1999 Jeffrey Coploff Fine Art Ltd., New York, NY. (solo exhibition)

1998 Little, Jeffrey Coploff Fine Art Ltd., New York, NY

1997 Three Painters, Gallery Theatre, Skyline College, San Bruno, CA

1997 Into the New Abstract Art, Sebastapol Art Center, Sebastapol, CA

1997 69th Annual Juried Exhibition, Art Association of Harrisburg, Harrisburg, PA

1996 68th Annual Juried Exhibition, Art Association of Harrisburg, Harrisburg, PA

1996 Abstraction II, Doshi Center for Contemporary Art, Harrisburg, PA

1996 Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, CA

1995 National Small Works, Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, NJ

1995 5th Biennial Works on Paper, Koret Gallery, Palo Alto, CA