Marcia Barrow Taylor

"I AM NOT WHAT I AM. I AM WHAT I DO WITH MY HANDS." 
-LOUISE BOURGEOIS

Exhibition Experience:

Experience

2005 - Present
Marcia Barrow Taylor, Artist/Proprietor

2008 - 2019

Inaugural Member, Lafayette, CA Public Art Committee
2002 - 2005

SFMOMA Docent
2000 - 2004

IT Art Works, Art Consultant/Proprietor 

Education


BA English (Minor: Pre-Law)
Adelphi University

SFMOMA Docent Training Program

Group Exhibitions


2023

  • Marin Moca, There is Magic Here: (National Juried Exhibition), Juried by Svea Lin Soll, Novato, CA 

2019

  • Root Division, Colorism: The Spectrum of Internalized Bias, curated by Daryl Stenvoll-Wells, San Francisco, CA

2016

  • Felted Bags & Paintings, Private Residence, April, San Francisco, CA

2011

  • Lafayette Public Art Committee (LPAC), Lafayette Library and Learning Center (Community Hall Gallery), April-July, Lafayette, CA

2010

  • Felted Bags (Spring/Summer Collection), Apple & Frank: Chic Summer Soirée, May, San Francisco, CA
  • Commissioned Felted Bag (Donation), New York Junior League: Babes, Bags and Bubbles, May, New York, NY

2005

  • ​Bedford Gallery presents Local Voice: Defining Community Through Art A Juried Exhibition of Contra Costa Artists, September-November, Walnut Creek, CA
  • 4th Annual Orinda Film Festival, Orinda Library Plaza: Blue Butterfly Project (Sculpture), September, Orinda, CA 
  • SFMOMA Staff Exhibition, SFMOMA Staff Offices, July, San Francisco, CA Painting placed at entrance to Director Neal Benezra’s Office

2004

  • ​​SFMOMA Staff Exhibition, SFMOMA Staff Offices, July, San Francisco, CA

Solo Exhibitions


2023

  • Of Color & Content, new work by Marcia Barrow Taylor, Project MBT, Lafayette, CA

2022

  • Harvesting Memory, new work by Marcia Barrow Taylor, Project MBT, Lafayette, CA

2021

  • A Look Back A Gesture Forward, new work by Marcia Barrow Taylor, Project MBT, Lafayette, CA

2020

  • Open Studios, new work by Marcia Barrow Taylor, 1340 Bryant St., San Francisco, CA

2019

  • Reverie, new work by Marcia Barrow Taylor, Lumina, San Francisco, CA

2018

  • Ode to Blue, new work by Marcia Barrow Taylor, Private Residence, Lafayette, CA

​2017

  • ​​Featured Performance Artist (Including Site-Specific Installation), Art Moves Project (AMP), Edifice: Uncovered, October, Lafayette, CA
  • Featured Performance Artist, AMP, Edifice: Breaking Walls, May, Lafayette, CA
  • 2-Person Off-Site Exhibition, Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, January-March, Oakland, CA

2015

  • The Dark Period, Metro Lafayette, October-January, Lafayette, CA

2014

  • Bending Time, Metro Lafayette, May-August, Lafayette, CA

2013

  • Erika Tanov Collaboration: Spring Jewelry Collection, San Francisco & Berkeley, CA

2012

  • Objects and Abstractions, Metro Lafayette, May-August, Lafayette, CA

2011

  • California Green, Swatt Residence (Architect), October, Lafayette, CA
  • Romanticism Evolves, Knitted/Felted Jewelry & Accessories, Private Residence (Collector), June, Moraga, CA
  • Featured Artist, Felted Bags and Paintings, Oakland Museum Store, June, Oakland, CA

2009

  • RED, Felted Bags and Paintings, MBT Studios, December, Lafayette, CA
  • Commissioned Painting (Donation), Youth Homes Gala: The Art of Hope, October, Danville,CA
  • MBT Fine Arts Spring Salon: New Works, MBT Studios, May, Lafayette, CA​