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Taliaferro Jones

California-born, Toronto-based artist Taliaferro Jones graduated from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where she received her BA in Art History and her BFA in photography, glass and mixed-media sculpture. Taliaferro then spent two years doing post-graduate work at Sheridan College's Glass Program in Canada refining her sculpture. Taliaferro had her first solo exhibition at the Sandra Ainsley Gallery in Toronto in May 2001. She exhibits internationally and has done large-scale glass and photography commissions in London, California, Hawaii, and Toronto. You can see her work in such catalogues as "Glass 2001" and "Glass 2002," by Georgina Fantoni, and in books such as International Glass Art by Richard Yelle and Craft of Northern California by Alcove Books. Taliaferro currently teaches Exhibition Planning and Glass Marketing and Publicity at the Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning (formerly Sheridan College). She maintains her own studio in Toronto where she continues to produce one-of-a-kind glass sculpture, architectural work and photography.

Between her time at Tufts and Sheridan, Taliaferro traveled extensively throughout Europe and Central America. Discovering many different cultural and spiritual forces on her journey, she came to reflect her findings in her work.

"...referencing sacred geometry and symmetry from a variety of cultural and spiritual beliefs.....she seeks to trigger unexplored approaches to the intangible within the viewer."

Using texture, form and light, Taliaferro explores the essence of balance from the physical to the spiritual in her glass sculptures and giclée prints. Her sensual photographs of macro patterns of sand, water, grass and other natural elements carry on a dialogue with her minimal glass sculptures. In all of her work Taliaferro looks at the overall pattern and hones in on its intrigue in order to draw out the ephemeral elements of balance. Seeking and attaining balance is a constant journey, with ever-shifting layers and levels that continually drives her work forward.