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  The Herald, 2006
  (Archival pigment inkjet print)
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  Down, down, down, 2007
  (Archival pigment inkjet print)
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  Birds of a feather, 2007
  (Archival pigment inkjet print)
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  An invitation, 2006
  (Archival pigment inkjet print)
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  It’s getting late, 2006
  (Archival pigment inkjet print)
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  The Dormouse, 2006
  (Archival pigment inkjet print)
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  It all seemed quite natural, 2006
  (Archival pigment inkjet print)
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  These strange adventures, 2006
  (Archival pigment inkjet print)
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  The great puzzle, 2006
  (Archival pigment inkjet print)
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  It’s always tea-time, 2006
  (Archival pigment inkjet print)

Organized by the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art
University of Florida, Gainesville, Tom Southall, Curator

In recent years Maggie Taylor has emerged as one of the most accomplished and innovative masters of digital imaging processes. Almost Alice will be her first one-person museum exhibition and our planned national tour promises to bring new attention to this important talent.

Taylor’s composite images give fresh insight as a new set of illustrations for Lewis Carroll’s classic Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Using sources ranging from snapshots to 19th-century daguerreotypes and tintypes, she constructs fantastic, surreal narratives. Although richly colored and dream-like in appearance, her use of photographic sources and digital manipulation retains a sense of the original photographic veracity, thus adding to the images’ surreal power. Her digital transformations bring out the fantasy and fantastic that is at the heart of Carroll’s playfully ironic writing.

Like Carroll’s beloved story, Taylor’s photographic prints have the potential to engage imaginative minds of all ages, delighting adults as much as children. Additionally, her inventive combination of digital processes and older sources provides inspiration to contemporary artists and photographers pushing the boundaries of new media.

Number of Works: 45

Frame Sizes: 24 x 24 inches to 40 x 40 inches (64 x 64 cm to 102 x 102 cm)

Space Requirements: Approximately 250 linear feet (76 linear meters)

Tour Dates: Fall 2008 - 2011

Participation Fee: Low (under $10,000)

Support Materials: Publication of a new edition of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, featuring Taylor’s new illustrations (Modernbooks, July 2008). The publication includes Carroll’s complete original text, as well as essays by Norman Holland, UFL Distinguished Professor in English.

REVIEWS AND NEWS

ArtDaily, August 04, 2011
Flavorwire, Emily Temple, July 24, 2011
Lewis Carroll Society of North America, July 14, 2011
North County Times, Patricia Morris Buckley, July 13, 2011
WAFB, May 31, 2010
The Savvy Source, May 2010
San Diego Union Tribune, Robert L. Pincus, March 18, 2010
Orlando Sentinel, Elizabeth Maupin, February 10, 2010
University of Florida News, Tami Wroath, July 25, 2008
ArtInfo, July 15, 2008