Maggie Taylor’s provocative illustrations for Lewis Carroll’s classic tale encourage us to take a new look at a story we might have thought we already knew. Alice has been drawn by countless illustrators from John Tenniel, to twentieth-century artists as diverse as Arthur Rackham (1907), Disney (1951), and even Salvador Dalí (1969). Taylor gives a new life to this tradition through her innovative combination of contemporary digital processes and Victorian photographic resources resulting in imagery that is simultaneously historic and intensely modern.

Almost Alice: New Illustrations of Wonderland by Maggie Taylor, radical manipulated source images while retaining photographic realism results in an ironic visual surrealism that perfectly complements the verbal wit and irony of Carroll’s writing. Taylor’s vision of multiple Alices may be darker, more challenging and ambiguous than earlier, more conventional interpretations. Yet it is exactly this mysterious and magical quality that perfectly allies her work with the enigmatic character and lasting power of Carroll’s provocative story.

WORKS
45

DIMENSIONS

20 x 22 to 30 x 32 (inches)
50,8 x 55,88 to 76,2 x 81,28 (cm)

INQUIRIES

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FEE

$7,500

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Maggie Taylor was born in Cleveland, Ohio (1961). She graduated from Yale University with a BA in philosophy (1983) and went on to complete an MFA in photography from the University of Florida (1987). For approximately ten years she worked with a camera and film, creating still-life images in her studio and garden. In 1996 and 2001 she received State of Florida Individual Artist’s Fellowships. In 1996 and 2001 she received State of Florida Individual Artist’s Fellowships. In 1996 Taylor began working digitally, using a scanner in place of a camera.  Her imaginative images and mastery of Photoshop and digital processes have earned her increased national and international recognition as demonstrated by the recent publication of Maggie Taylor’s Landscape of Dreams  (2005, Adobe Press) and Solutions Beginning with A  (2007, Modernbook Editions).  Her work is in the collections of numerous museums including The Art Museum, Princeton University; The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University; Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and The Museum of Photography, Seoul.