Spotlight Artist

Susie

Pacific Coast
Susie Taylor's headshot

Gallery Affiliations:

Johansson Projects, Oakland CA

Featured in New American Paintings

Artist Statement

I make abstract textiles that depict imagined architectural spaces and forms. I weave to solve visual and structural puzzles, straddling the line between the tangible and the illusory. By using the foundational grid of weaving as a canvas for coded patterns and embedded imagery, I challenge perception through optical effects. Much like pointillism, interlaced strings of pure color blend in the viewer’s eye to produce discernible tones.

In my process, geometric abstractions serve as platforms to explore the interaction of color, texture, and dimension. By manipulating yarn to vary translucency, opacity, and saturation, I create layers that simultaneously reveal and obscure. Grids, stripes, and patterns function as building blocks derived from underlying ordered systems to compose seemingly dimensional forms on a flat plane. Inspired by architecture and origami, the transformation of physical form becomes a primary metaphor for personal transformation.

Artist's Additional works

Works shared by the artist outside of their featured New American Paintings selections

hand jacquard weaving (cotton)
San Tomas - 2026hand jacquard weaving (cotton), 27.5 x 21 inches
hand jacquard weaving (cotton)
Palms - 2026hand jacquard weaving (cotton), 27.5 x 20 inches
hand jacquard weaving (cotton)
Verrazano - 2026hand jacquard weaving (cotton), 27.5 x 21 inches
hand jacquard weaving (cotton)
Westwood - 2026hand jacquard weaving (cotton), 27.5 x 21 inches

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Education

  • BFA, Fiber, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO, US
  • MFA, Design, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, US

Residencies

  • Digital Weaving Lab, Praxis, Cleveland, OH, US

Solo Exhibitions

  • Loom Adventures, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, US
  • Poetic Geometry, Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN, US

Collections

  • DeYoung Museum, San Francisco, CA, US

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • Intertwined, Blue Spiral Gallery, Asheville, NC, US
  • Cut From the Same Cloth, Palo Alto Arts Center, Palo Alto, CA, US
  • Weaving at Black Mountain College, BMCM, Asheville, NC, US
  • Altered Perceptions, ICA, San Jose, San Jose, CA, US

Represented By

  • Johansson Projects, Oakland, CA

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