Audrey Hasen Taylor grew up in the foothills of Appalachia on the family farm in East Tennessee. She received her B.F.A. in sculpture from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and an M.F.A. in sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, MI. Following her college years, she relocated to New York City, simultaneously working as an artist, studio manager for established artists, one of many facilities coordinators at Google NYC, and default industrial renovator.
Audrey is currently the community art education and residency director for MWPAI's School of Art where she develops non-credit art programming for adults, teens, and kids as well as special community events and collaborations. She also directs an international artists residency at Munson-Williams which selects two artists from rotating disciplines to live, work, exhibit and teach on the School of Art/PrattMWP College of Art and Design campus each year.
During her stay at MacDowell, Audrey completed new mixed media sculptures and drawings that mined her ongoing themes of rural landscape, DIY, nostalgia, and fantasy narratives. Her MacDowell residency followed two solo exhibitions in 2011, "Back Property" at the University of Wyoming, Laramie and "Gold Slaw" at Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL.
In her studio art practice, she works on large-scale, site-responsive installation, mixed media sculptures, blown glass objects, digital prints, and works on paper. Themes revolve around abstracted but bucolic landscapes, notions of nostalgia, and accumulation.
