Josephine Taylor

[11] She lives and works in San Francisco and has shown with Catharine Clark Gallery since 2003.

Taylor uses diluted ink washes to create narrative drawings on very large, unframed pieces of paper.

The subject matter of her work deals with psychological traces of childhood and adolescent memories.

And once there, existing in a bodily relationship with her figures, we cannot believe what we are seeing: Children taunt and torment one another; tenderness and abuse intertwine among family; loved ones meet sudden deaths.

The works collapse past and present, showing how the artist's memories of fraught personal experiences linger as residue in her current psychological landscape.