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Artist Statement

Updated January 2025

At the heart of my work is an examination of emotion and memory as bodily sensations, and how color, texture, and form can evoke those sensations. By drawing parallels between natural processes and human experiences, I seek to emphasize the connections between our lives and the natural world. As the world becomes increasingly digital, my work clings more and more to the tangibility of texture, referencing nature's cycles of erosion and creation. Water erodes stone to sculpt impressive canyons, just as minerals from dissolved limestone drip from cave ceilings to form stalagmites. In life, the rushing waters of circumstance can shape one’s personal identity. Both material additives and imagery derived from nature in the work exhibit this connection. I am influenced by my upbringing in Southern Appalachia, where the striking mountains, trees, rivers, and caverns gave me a deep appreciation for all of the forms and textures found in nature. I am currently active in the Knoxville art scene while working as Assistant Gallery Director at a local gallery.


Ranee-Taylor.com  Tayo.paint@gmail.com

Born Houston, TX

Lives and works in Knoxville, TN

Education

2018 - 2022 BFA in Studio Art @ University of Tennessee // Knoxville, TN

Selected Exhibitions

2025

Title TBD @ RED Gallery // Knoxville, TN (Solo Show)

The Collage Collective @ The Emporium // Knoxville, TN (Curated Group Show)

2024

Through Lines @ Fischman Gallery // Johnson City, TN (Two-person Show)

Elsewhere: Pulling Forth the Invisible @ ClearStory Arts // Chattanooga, TN

2023

Brighter than the Fire Around Me @ Fischman Gallery // Johnson City, TN (Three-person Show)

2022

An Ever Forming / Breaking Reality @ Gallery 1010 // Knoxville (Capstone Exhibition)

Celebration of Play @ The Central Collective // Knoxville, TN (Curated Group Show)

Issue 64 @ Student Union Gallery // Knoxville, TN

2021

Featherbrained @ Gallery 1010 // Knoxville, TN (Solo Show)

Light of Truth @ Hiram Van Gordon Gallery & Fisk University Carl Vechten Gallery \\ Nashville, TN

2020

Get that Bread @ Ewing Gallery // Knoxville, TN

Curatorial

2023

Good Grief @ Fischman Gallery // Johnson City, TN

Publications

2023

Issue 42 // The Hand Magazine // Prairie Village, KS

2022

Issue 64 // Phoenix Literary Magazine // Knoxville, TN

Presentations

2021

Knoxville Monologues // Knoxville, TN

Awards

2019

Sprecher Award for Painting and Drawing