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Douglas Taylor has been a professional artist since 1979 and represented in many galleries throughout the western United States. He taught a wide variety of studio art on the college and university level from 1982 to 1998. He has a west coast, east coast and midwest art education. He received his Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, 1989. Douglas also studied on the graduate level at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, the summer of 1986. He earned a Bachelor of Professional Arts degree from Oregon Collage of Art, in Ashland, Oregon, 1979. There he concentrated on illustration and painting and learned the foundation for being a successful professional artist. In 1980, he privately studied etching (intaglio printmaking) and produced over 50 edition prints in the following seven years. In 1992, he designed and completed the construction of his own motorized intaglio printing press. It is about 12 feet long and three feet wide. It has twenty-five inch wide steel rollers and is able to print the many different processes and methods that Douglas involves himself. 
He was born in Oregon, and grew up in several western states, including Idaho, Washington, California, Arizona and Nevada. He has lived at beautiful Lake Tahoe, California, since January of 1990.
ASPEN LEAF Wooden Stool with Metal Collage, click picture or this text link for more information and images of this unique stool, or this text link to information about the Silent Auction to benefit the ARTS FOR THE SCHOOLS program.
Click the links to see his artworks from the Whirled Piece exhibit or an
artist statement concerning his Whirled Piece series, or a one page resumé’
summery, or read some of his recent poetry that relate to the Whirled Piece
Series. See a Portfolio of available pieces from 2000 - 2001. See early etchings
by Doug Taylor (c.1980-1987).
Click here to see more of this and other pieces of the Horses & Rivers Exhibit.
Click here to read an article written in Tahoe Quarterly Magazine by Michael Penwarden about artist, Douglas Taylor.
New monoprints by Taylor were exhibited at the
Appaloosa Museum in Moscow, Idaho
from September 23, 2005 to January 7, 2006.
The Exhibit, Appaloosa Spirit, was inspired by the
Appaloosa horse and the country that spawned the breed. This was the
first time the museum has had a solo exhibit for an artist. It featured
five new monoprints, a previous monoprint and two gicle’e prints of mixed
media images appropriate for the exhibit. To learn more about the museum
and how to visit it, click this link to www.appaloosamuseum.org
Douglas Taylor was invited to participate in an exhibit at Indiana State
University in Terre Haute, Indiana. A monoprint titled Rounding Corners
was selected for Against Tradition: Trends in Contemporary
Printmaking. The exhibit ran from March 10 through April 9, 2004.
According to Kaz McCue, curator and gallery director, “Against Tradition
is a group exhibition which seeks to investigate contemporary printmakers’
interest in the potential of printmaking to engage in a broader dialogue within the visual arts. Working against traditional forms and techniques, today’s print artists are more concerned with experimentation, mixed media combinations and new technologies rather the explicit continuity of the tradition of the medium. Printmaking offers seemingly endless flexibility in the creation of new and exciting visual applications and has established itself as a medium for artist seeking greater freedom of expression. The exhibition features a variety of approaches to the medium of printmaking including new and experimentative techniques, the incorporation of new technologies, contemporary approaches to presentation and installation, and dynamic variations on the artist’s book. The exhibit includes work by thirty artists from across the United States, Canada and Europe.”
Artist statement about the Whirled Piece Exhibit
A biographical statement and One- page resumé’
about his selection of reproduction prints
Limited reproduction rights and licensing of images created
by Douglas E. Taylor can be purchased. Contact Vista Gallery
for specific arrangements.
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