Skī Taylor is a champion hugger, motivational dancer, and enthusiastic assembler living in Sacramento, CA.
Skī’s collage inspiration is, more often than not, driven by her sense of humor, and by her enjoyment of juxtaposition within simple composition. She is delighted by the challenge of found materials and creating from those limited resources. For Skī, the meditative process of collage often initiates a flow of ideas relevant to other creative endeavors.
Skī Taylor is a co-founder of Collage Therapy (with Donna Morello, whose creative fearlessness is an inspiration), a collage collective based in Northern California. Founded in 2018, they are historical re-contextualists altering the past one cut at a time. All works are analog, most works are independently created, with occasional collaboration.
She is the Artistic Director and Photographer at Station to Station Creative, a sound and video production company she runs with her husband, where her design eye can be seen in many commercial and artistic productions. She is Deputy Director and Photographer at OMNICreative, a community-driven artist collective dedicated to the advocacy, development, and exhibition of emerging creatives across all visual media.
Skī is also a freelance photographer, providing service within the local community and among friends. Skī has a lifelong history with and love of dance and interior design, two activities she can frequently be found participating in and sharing with others, though she only has formal training in the former.
Her love of collage began when home with her young son in 1999 by drawing objects around the house, cutting them out, mixing them with other found textures and graphics, and arranging them into small books for him, or by cutting up family photographs and assembling them whimsically on postcards. Skī is drawn to the accessibility of collage. Collage, and the incredibly friendly and supportive collage community at large, has more recently been a way to find peace during recovery of a serious years-long illness and to process the heartbreak of an often-ugly modern world -- a way to place more of the goodness and beauty of humanity in front of her own eyes (and, ultimately, into her actions and into the community). Skī is most known/recognized for her laugh and for her dance moves, and is totally ok with that. Skī is an avid collector of local art.
Since co-founding Collage Therapy, Skī has returned to the art form with gusto, producing countless original works, shown locally and internationally.
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