Taylor Thomas

Taylor Fine Art is proud to present Colored in the Lines, a solo exhibition by artist Taylor Thomas, on view from July 5 through July 26, 2025 at Taylor Fine Art. An opening reception will be held at the gallery on Saturday, July 5, from 6 to 9 PM.

Taylor Thomas is a Black artist from Chicago; now living and working in Los Angeles. She graduated Magna cum Laude with Distinction from Amherst College where she double-majored in Sociology and Film & Media Studies. Thomas spent the following six years developing features at Netflix and The Walt Disney Company, during which she witnessed a lack of diversity across the entertainment industry. This drove Thomas to change careers and create the representation she craves in the visual arts, utilizing her Hollywood industry experience in a way that informs her artistic practice.

 “Working in an industry where you’re one of maybe 500 people touching a movie, you lose that agency and power… I love the idea of being able to create my singular narrative in a piece that feels wholly myself,” says Thomas.

Thomas received her MFA in Fine Art with a Certificate in Education from CalArts in 2025.

As a visual artist, she has exhibited in cities across California, as well as Brooklyn, NY and Santa Fe, NM at the Strata Gallery where she won the Assistant Director’s Choice Award. She has held three solo exhibitions in Southern California during the past two years.

 Thomas’ collage-based artwork is fueled by the drive to understand herself within the larger narrative of her family history. Her work often weaves family photographs with found materials such as commercial posters, blankets, spray paint, ceramics, paper, metal, and wood; layering these textures to contrast and reflect the complex ways Blackness is represented in American culture.

 “Dissecting my subjects from the confines of their picture frames frees them from the boundaries of time,” Thomas explains.

 Taylor frequently incorporates mirrors into her painted and sculpted collages to engage the viewer directly, inviting them to see themselves within the narrative of the work. It’s in this act of seeing oneself reflected in an “other” that Thomas hopes to inspire connection and celebrate her family legacy.

 “The goal of my art is that [the viewer] feels like they are important…there’s so much possibility in feeling like you deserve to be seen.”