Bio
Taylor Stoneman is a surrealist painter based in Berkeley, CA and from Phoenix, AZ. Her work interrogates environmental themes, including the meaning of wilderness and the dualities of harm that result from extracting earth’s resources. She has exhibited widely in the Bay Area and completed a residency at Vermont Studio Center in February 2025.
My art examines the harm caused when we other ourselves from Earth’s natural cycles. In oil paintings probing human dependence on and complicity in wounding and dominating the Earth, I explore themes of resource extraction, wilderness loss, and consumerism. My latest works show surrealist scenes in which inanimate natural resources are replaced by or interact with the human body, inviting viewers to engage with scenes of extraction that otherwise remain hidden from the public, to see the raw materials we exploit and consume as bodies equivalent to our own, and equally demanding protection.
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