Maggie Taylor (born 1961 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an artist who works with digital images. She won the Santa Fe Center for Photography’s Project Competition in 2004. Her work has been widely exhibited in the United States and Europe and is represented within the permanent collections of several galleries and museums. She is the fifth wife of American photographer, Jerry Uelsmann.

She produces prints by scanning objects into a computer using a flatbed scanner, then layering and manipulating these images using Adobe Photoshop into a surrealistic montage. These are printed on Somerset Velvet watercolour paper, using the Iris printing process.

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Gary Taxali is an artist/illustrator living in Canada. Aside from his gallery shows and illustration work, Gary also devotes a portion of his time traveling through lecturing and teaching at various arts organizations and schools such as The Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto. He is a Founding Member of The Illustrators’ Partnership of America and sits on the Advisory Board of 3×3: The Magazine of Contemporary Illustration. Currently, Gary is working on his next mass production toy figure, “Oh No”, under the name of his new company, Chump Inc. as well as ‘This Is Silly”, a children’s book published by Scholastic and slated for a fall 2008 release.

Gary was born in Chandigarh, India in 1968. A year later, he and his family emigrated to Toronto. The encouragement of his parents led Gary to take art classes as a child which eventually led him to pursue an art education. In 1991, he graduated from the Ontario College of Art and immediately began working as a professional illustrator. A few years later, he began showing in various exhibitions and galleries throughout North America including the Luz de Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles. In 2005, he launched his first vinyl toy, The Toy Monkey, which includes a special edition specifically created for The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. Gary was also asked by the Whitney Museum to donate a limited edition print to be given to top donors at their annual fundraising Art Party.

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