 
Hollie was born to an exceptionally colorful, artistic and athletic North Carolina family. Her mother, Brooke Taylor, was a wonderful water color artist who chronicled her southeastern surroundings by painting old leaning shacks, tobacco barns, and trees dripping Spanish moss. Taylor spent most of her adult life in Chapel Hill where she went to high school and at UNC studied printmaking and painting, earning a BFA. After graduating, Hollie went to University of Georgia and earned her MFA in printmaking doing mainly one of a kind photo screenprints, which then became surfaces to collage upon, draw or paint.Taylor’s current work reflects her interest in texture as a printmaker and her experience screenprinting. Hollie is working predominantly in clay now, but using graphic images of nature and icons of different cultures much as she did in her earlier two-dimensional work. Hollie displays much of her work on the wall, showing her roots to the 2 dimensional picture plane. The WallNicheArtifacts are highly textured frames through which to view images and can be viewed as a kind of clay shadow box. In the 1980’s Taylor’s work was very participatory, inviting the audience into the art experience to help complete itself. The Interactive Stage Sets allow the participation and humor Hollie finds groovy and makes a ground for collaboration with her audience. Hollie’s Tobacco Barn Spirit Houses show again her interest in nature, texture-emulating vines grown over the structures. Her mother, Brooke, painted tobacco barns and Taylor grew up being influenced tremendously by her mother’s work. 
Hollie worked closely with Marvin Saltzman at UNC where she caught his love of the print and of making art. At graduate school she worked with Charles Morgan who influenced her to take note of the tiny miracles in nature and art. Since graduate school Taylor has worked with Mark Burleson, Lana Wilson, Leah Leitson, and Dina Wilde-Ramsing, who have informed Hollie’s sensibilities about the clay medium.Selected Collections: Nortel, Inc., Research Triangle Park, NC NCNB, Charlotte, NC Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC NC Memorial Hospital, Chapel Hill, NC Spartanburg Bank and Trust Co., Spartanburg, SC Private Collections Contact Hollie at hollie@hollietaylor.com TOP |