Taylor Ramsey’s expansive watercolor paintings begin and end with storytelling, creating a vibrant visual lexicon that transports you to her world. Ramsey describes her work as narrative paintings contextualized against the architectural backdrops that hold outsized cultural significance in the Black American oral tradition. Ramsey’s work is based on extensive research that is an amalgamation of historical art, pop culture, mythology, fables, and the cultural zeitgeist. Primarily depicting melanated figures rooted in Black geographical meccas or in  her New Orleans background allowing the fleur de lis motif to flow symbolically throughout the majority of her paintings. She draws influence from her background in 2-D animation informing her stylistic approach to her work that infuses flatness, pattern, vibrant color, and text that provides additional signifiers of meaning. Representing touchpoints of Black cultural history, she alludes to appropriation, staple Black pop culture moments and community infused with moments of humor and wit. 

Ramsey (b. New Orleans, LA) grew up in New Orleans and Houston, Texas. Today, she lives and works in Washington D.C. Ramsey has her BFA in Studio Art: Painting and is currently a LeRoy Hoffberger MFA Candidate and Graduate Merit Fellow, has exhibited her work in the African American Museum of Art in Dallas, won the 2024 Mary Castelnovo Award for Painting, and a finalist in the Carroll Harris Simms National Art Competition in 2023.