Currently an assistant professor of printmaking and drawing at the University of Virginia, Jackson Taylor was born and raised in rural Kentucky on a large, intergenerational, cattle and tobacco farm. He holds a BFA in 2D studio art from the University of Louisville and received his MFA in printmaking and drawing from the University of Iowa in 2021. He has exhibited work internationally, conducted printmaking workshops across the country, and in 2022 will be a visiting artist at the University of Akron, demonstrating waterless lithography procedures, in conjunction with the Mid America Printmaking Council biennial conference. His work offers a record of warped pastoral landscapes, snapshots of decay, and precarious situations that examine the still-dissolving rose-colored vignette that shrouded/shrouds the American South. Layering together sequences of disjunctive photographic references, the work surveys instances of nefarious nature, where religious extremism and exasperated cultures that highlight the fragility and degradation of man.