CAMERON TAYLOR-BROWN
WEBSITE: camerontaylor-brown.com
IG: @camerontaylorbrown
EMAIL: cameron@camerontaylor-brown.com
STATEMENT
What I love about art is its ability to make things we take for granted beautiful. Like most still-life practices, my art is about romanticizing the everyday, additionally, it is a quiet resistance of concept, craft, material, and time. It is a juxtaposition of worn materials and detailed imagery. It is beauty in stillness. Hand embroidery takes hours of stitching. It is in this process of layering thread that I create work that in many ways replicates painting. However, I use a craft that is historically 'decorative’ and passed down from woman to woman. My goal is to draw people closer, for them to see the array of colors, and think, 'Wow, that's denim and cotton thread.
BIO
Cameron Taylor-Brown was introduced to textiles by artist Ed Rossbach at the University of California, Berkeley, and studied textile design at the Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science, where she later taught woven design. Since 1985, she has lived in Los Angeles where she is active in arts and education.
Her work is widely exhibited and has been featured in Fiber Art Now, American Craft, Handwoven and Shuttle, Spindle and Dyepot. In 2019, she curated the critically acclaimed exhibit Material Meaning: A Living Legacy of Anni Albers at the Craft in America Center.
She is the founder of ARTSgarage, a textile resource center in Los Angeles. and teaches workshops at ARTSgarage, schools, guilds, museums and conferences throughout the United States and Canada. She is a past president of California Fibers and serves on the advisory boards of the Fowler Textile Council and Textile Arts Los Angeles.