Maxine Taylor

‘For me painting is a key to understanding inner feelings, a way of releasing the experiences each of us holds inside, to transfer these feelings onto paper or canvas in order to share them.'
Incorporating watercolor, a fluid and spontaneous medium, into Taylor's mix of pigment, acrylic, pastel, and sumi ink achieves a more powerful communication. Taylor currently incorporates past work into collages, resulting in more powerful communications.

A native of California, Ms Taylor moved to Maryland more than 40 years ago when she began to paint seriously, first in watercolor and subsequently acrylic and mixed media. Active in the DC art scene as a member of Studio Gallery from 1991-1997, Maxine is now a resident of Baltimore, Maryland, where she was represented by Montage Gallery from 2003-2010. She has work in collections in California, Florida, New York and Maryland, including 18 works in the George Meany Center for Labor Studies formerly in Silver Spring MD.

Ms Taylor continues to exhibit regionally throughout Maryland. She was instrumental in the creation of Passageways Artist Studios in Riverdale MD and a participant in the formalization of the Artists' Gallery in Columbia MD before her move to her current studio in Ba...

University of MD University College 2007-2008,
University of Maryland, College Park 1985, 1986,
Prince Georges Community College 1982-1984,
Napa Valley College 1962-1964

Solo Shows
2020 Upcoming Wishbone Reserve, Baltimore, MD
2020 Upcoming, October, ARG, Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD
2013 Hamilton Gallery, "Faces of Baltimore", Baltimore, MD
2012 Kish Lobby Gallery. Slayton House, “Contemporary Movements”, Columbia, MD
2013-1997 City of Baltimore Annual Open Studio Tour, Baltimore, MD
2010-2003 Montage Gallery, Federal Hill, Baltimore, MD
1996 Marlboro Gallery, Prince Georges College “Seeking Language, New Work” Landover, MD
1995 Columbia Art Center, “Seeking Language, New Work” Columbia, Maryland
1995 Studio Gallery, “Seeking Language, New Work”, Dupont Circle, Washington, DC
1992 Studio Gallery, “Innerspace”, Dupont Circle, Washington, DC
1991, 1989, 1987 Gallery Lounge, George Meany Center Labor Studies, Silver Spring, MD

Selected Juried and Invitational Group Exhibitions
2018 Artscape Gallery Network, Showcase Gallery, curated by Liza Lee, sponsored by Baltimore Office of
Promotion & The Arts (BOPA) and M & T Bank
2013 Hamilton Gallery, “Chesapeake Watershed”, MD & MD Science Center, Baltimore
2012 Gallery 4N5, 863 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA
2011 Abstract Survey: 2000-2010, R. Ray curator, Sacramento Temporary Contemporary, CA
2011 Unity and Diversity:...