Taylor Bosworth

The eyes are full of a universal language. They are an unconscious interpreter of the soul. I aim to create painted images that dissolve time, distance, difference, alienation and have the capacity to mend, join, comfort, and reconcile. Created through a gendered lens, my work attempts to reveal issues of identity present in contemporary culture while exposing the metamorphosis that occurs in the expansion of self.

My most recent oil paintings connect numerous individual images of eyes intertwined with organic nets of lines, and floral imagery. The structure and imagery explore my thinking on the fluidity and unevenness of personal growth and change, and the experience of inner transformation inspired by my recent experience hiking the Inca trail along the Andes Mountains in Peru. Because the eyes are those of myself and other specific women, they also engage questions of gender, identity formation and expectations in contemporary culture.

Through the use of eyes as subject matter, I make use of a biological and symbolic language that crosses time and cultures. The process of making my work is also a metaphor for a beginning that spills outs from a central composition to expand organically in an unpredictable yet unabashed w...

2013 BFA - Painting, University of Texas at San Antonio
2013 BFA - Art History, University of Texas at San Antonio

Solo Exhibitions

July 2017 - Alien Inside, Gaslight Modern, San Antonio, TX
May 2017 - Metamorphosis, Flight Gallery, San Antonio, TX

February 2013 - Taylor Bosworth, Hello Studio, San Antonio, TX
December 2012 - Uncertainty and Other Dreamtime Ailments, Gallery E at the University
of Texas at San Antonio; San Antonio, TX

Group Exhibitions

October 2012 - Provocations, Backstage Live; San Antonio, TX
March 2012 - XXVIII Student Exhibition, University of Texas at San Antonio; San
Antonio, TX Juror: Derrick Durham, Artist and Lecturer at Texas State
University
October 2009 - Juried Student Show, San Antonio College; San Antonio, TX
April 2006 - Juried Student Show, San Antonio College; San Antonio, TX
October 2005 - Juried Student Show, San Antonio College; San Antonio, TX