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Summary

"My current interests look back to the archaic processes of the 19th century and to the intense curiosity that signifies the passion of the early inventors. Though considered through the lens of our century, I work with hand-applied emulsions, the camera-less photogram, printing-out paper, gold toner and paper negatives. I like the physical, hands-on aspects of these processes as well as their relationship to drawing. I look for space, or place, that can become camera for photogenic drawings, on paper that prints out or develops-out as it is exposed.

Both my subject and my process are tied to the concepts of immediacy, chance, time, measurement, history, memory, and fiction."
-Judith Taylor

Judith Taylor was a photographer and celebrated Arcadia University professor known for her use of Printing-Out Paper (P.O.P.), a unique photographic paper that requires ultraviolet light to form a complete range of tones, so it is typically used to make positive prints outside with the photogram technique or large-scale negatives in direct sunlight. In the last decade of her career, Taylor merged photography with architecture as she began making contact prints of windows in her Mitchell Street studio and later when she moved to the then-new Crane Arts Building in Philadelphia in 2004. Taylor was known to exhibit the photogenic drawing negatives with their positives. In the Mitchell Street series, the wood frames reconfigure the positive as a believable with a dreamy vision of real space.

Taylor began her teaching career at Arcadia University in 1995, was promoted to associate professor in 2001, and then became a full professor in 2007. She also was program coordinator of Photography in Arcadia's Department of Art and Design. During that time, she lived in Bucks County. She earned an M.F.A. in Photography in 1978 from the Rhode Island School of Design, and, in 1975, she earned a B.A. in Fine Art with an emphasis on photography and film from The Pennsylvania State University.

Her scholarly and creative achievements and research grants include: 2007, studio research and photographic materials; 2006, Philadelphia Selections 6, Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia; 2005, group exhibition at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, Del., and studio work at Crane Arts and Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia.

Education & Community

Education & Training
M.F.A. in Photography, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, 1978
B.A. in Fine Art with an emphasis on photography and film, the Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, 1975

Connection to Bucks County
Taylor was the program coordinator of Photography in Arcadia’s Department of Art and Design and during that time lived for many years in Bucks County. She also held positions at a variety of Delaware Valley Schools, including Bucks County Community College.

Career

Major Solo Exhibitions
My Glass House, Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site, Artists Installations, Philadelphia, PA, 2009
Insideout, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE, 2002
Histories, List Gallery, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, 2000

Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA, 1999
New Work, Creative Artists Network, Philadelphia, PA, 1999
Open Pages, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT, 1996
Conversations and Laments, Creative Artists Network, Philadelphia, PA, 1996
Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 1994

Major Group Exhibitions
Emerging to Established, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, 2008
Philadelphia Selection 6, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA, 2006
Past is Present, The Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY, 2006
Old Media, New Visions, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
Art Full Text, Art in City Hall, Philadelphia, PA, 2005
Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE, 2004
From That to This: Artists Inspirations, Nexus, Philadelphia, PA, 2003
Ophelia Rising, Temple Gallery/Old City, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA, 2002
Snapshot, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, 2002
Works from the Collection by Philadelphia Area Photographers, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, 2000
I Do, Alan Klotz/Photocollect Gallery, New York, NY, 2000
The Sea and The Sky, Gallagher Gallery, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland; and Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA, 2000
20 by 12: A Generation of Challenge Artists, Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, 1999
The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA, 1999
Pennsylvania Photographers, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA, 1997
Transformations: Four Bucks County Artists, Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA, 1995

Selected Publications
A Catalog on the Occasion of the Exhibition Past is Present, Heather Wetzel and Jenn Libby, The Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
Dogwood,
a Journal of Poetry and Prose, Spring 2004
Independence Foundation 2002 Fellowships in the Arts
, Catalog, The Independence Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
The Sea and the Sky
, Exhibition Catalog, Patrick Murphy and Richard Torchia, 2000
The Leeway Foundation 1998 Awards for Artists: Celebrating Five Years of Awards to Women in the Arts
, Catalog, The Leeway Foundation, 1998

Selected Collections
The Philadelphia Museum of Art
Bryn Mawr College
Lehigh University
Allentown Art Museum
The State Museum of Pennsylvania
Rutgers University Collection of Art
The Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design
The Pennsylvania State University
Johnson & Johnson
Price/Waterhouse

Awards & Appointments

Teaching and Professional Appointments
Professor, Head of Photography, Department of Arts & Design, Arcadia University (formerly Beaver College), Glenside, PA
Appointment to Frank and Evelyn Steinbrucker Endowed Chair, Arcadia University, Glenside, PA, 2008

Selected Grants and Awards
Artist Residency, Hospitalfield, Arbroath, Scotland Individual Creative Artist Special Opportunity Stipend, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, 2003
Independence Foundation Fellowship in the Arts, Independence Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, 2002
Individual Creative Artist Special Opportunity Stipend, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, 2001
Ellington Beavers Award for Intellectual Inquiry, Beaver College Research Foundation, Glenside, PA, 1998
Leeway Grant for Excellence in Photography, Leeway Foundation Grants in the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 1996
Visual Arts Fellowship, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, 1990
Nominee, Awards in the Visual Arts National Artists Award, 1988

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