Now, Here and Everywhere
Miriam Hitchcock & Matthew Weston Taylor
May 30 – June 20, 2015
Opening Reception: May 30, 2015 3-5pm
Miriam Hitchcock was born in San Francisco and grew up on the peninsula. She completed a BFA at University of California at Santa Cruz and received an MFA in Painting from Yale University. Hitchcock has taught painting, drawing and design at Brown University, Rhode Island School of Design and Cornell University. Returning to to live in Santa Cruz in 1990, she has instructed courses at Stanford University and San Jose State University, and was member of the Art faculty at University of California Santa Cruz from 1992 to 2012. Hitchcock has led studio courses in Rome, Italy through the Cornell University Dept of Art and Architecture, and later with The American University in Rome, in conjunction with University of California at Santa Cruz.
Working in painting, drawing and animation, her imagery and working process are informed by the inherent displacement and fragmentation of contemporary life and a fascination with the experience of time.
Matthew Weston Taylor was born in Stockton California. He received a BFA from San Jose State University in 2008 and an MFA from the University of California Davis in 2011. Working primarily with painting and drawing, Matthew teaches at Cabrillo College in Aptos, CA and San Jose State University in San Jose, CA. He lives with his wife and daughter in the Bay Area.
The new freestanding sculptural works are based on paintings and drawings that Taylor has been making over the last several years. The imagery and compositions pull directly from the two-dimensional lexicon that feels both personal and enigmatic. Images that at one time referenced other objects become objects in themselves, sometimes retaining their references and sometimes becoming abstracted independent forms.
