Alison Elizabeth Taylor: I’ll Be Your Mirror @ Jessica Silverman

Jessica Silverman is pleased to present “I’ll Be Your Mirror,” Alison Elizabeth Taylor’s first solo exhibition on the West Coast, running from April 24 to May 30, 2026. Featuring new wood inlay paintings and multimedia works on paper, the exhibition explores young women’s social worlds, particularly moments when performance and vulnerability collide. In these works, Taylor captures buoyant, charged atmospheres—fleeting instances of laughter and liberation.

Taylor is a virtuoso with wood. Adapting marquetry techniques, she expands the traditions of wood veneer inlay by combining it with oil painting and collaged materials such as vibrantly pigmented sawdust to create a unique hybrid art form. She first began experimenting with cut wood while studying painting at Columbia University, New York. In 2009, she received a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, which enabled her to investigate the rich history of marquetry.