Susan Aaron-Taylor


Susan Aaron-Taylor is an American artist who creates mixed-media sculptures. For forty years she was a professor at the Crafts Department of the College for Creative Studies, Detroit, Michigan.

Biography

Susan Aaron-Taylor was born 1947 in Brooklyn, New York. She lives and creates art works in Pleasant Ridge, Michigan.

Career

Aaron-Taylor earned a Bachelor of Science at Wayne State University and a Master of Fine Arts at Cranbrook Academy of Art. She served as the Section Chairperson of the Fiber Design Department and Professor of the Crafts Department at the College for Creative Studies for over 40 years in Detroit, Michigan. When she retired, Aaron-Taylor was granted emeritus status.
Aaron-Taylor is known for her artworks that draw inspiration from her knowledge of alchemy, story-telling, chemistry, Jungian psychology, philosophy, archetypes, and the Collective Unconscious. She has exhibited for over thirty years and her work has been included in permanent as well as private collections.

Style and technique

Aaron-Taylor has created a body of artwork that consists of modest-sized sculptural objects which depict fantasy-like figures recalled from her dreams, including dogs, cats and other small creatures. The distortions from the anatomical correctness of the objects results from a practice of using tree roots, affixing felt in multiple colors for the basis of the core figure's form. She hand-processes her own felt. which she uses emulate an animal's pelt. She incorporates other natural and man-made materials, such as gemstones, pieces of metal, teeth and bone. She uses meditation and Jungian imagery as a source for inspirations.

Significant works