Janet Taylor-Pickett

Career

Taylor Pickett works in various mediums including sculpture, installation, painting, assemblage, and collage. Her work is inspired by her life as an African-American woman and informed by her 30 years teaching at Essex County College in New Jersey. In her own words, "My Blackness is a declarative statement in my work."

Taylor Pickett was one of the artists whose work was exhibited in the 1986 group show Progressions: Cultural Legacy at MoMA PS1.

Kamala Harris is a patron of Taylor Pickett's work.

Group shows 2020: Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC 2017: African American Women Artists and the Power of Their Gaze, David C. Driskell Center For the Study of Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, University of Maryland, Maryland 1986: Progressions: A Cultural Legacy, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York "Hagar's Dress", print, 2007, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New York, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the Telfair Museums, Savannah, Georgia