art|WORK: Nancy Taliaferro
art|WORK was a project executed in 2015 that focused on women artists making a living through their art. It addressed the intersection of art and money to illuminate the difficulties many female artists face trying to earn a living through their creative endeavors.
Nancy Taliaferro, born in Baltimore, is the daughter and granddaughter of painters and studied classical painting techniques from an early age at The Schuler’s School of Fine Art. She continued her studies at The Maryland Institute of Art and received her BFA from The Philadelphia University of the Arts. Taliaferro is moved by the vulnerability of the natural world and is interested in the common thread that connects humans, animals, and all of nature. Through visual metaphor she examines this common thread and pushes the feelings her subjects evoke through unexpected juxtapositions; both are sacred, yet together they can be oddly funny. She is excited by this tension and seeks to explore earthly life - the tragic and beautiful, the sacred and the ludicrous.
