Amazing Animal Rights Painter Exhibit -- You're invited

May 15, 2008

(Synopsis taken from Sunny's website home page): " Sunny Taylor was

born in 1982 in Tucson, Arizona, and was un-schooled throughout her

childhood. She has been painting from the age of 12 and is largely

self-taught. Taylor was born with a disability called Arthrogryposis

due to United States military pollution. She is an active member of

the disability community and received her undergraduate degree from

Goddard College, majoring in disability studies. Her works have been

exhibited at venues across the country, including the Smithsonian

Institution, the Chicago Cultural Center, and the Yager Museum. She

is the recipient of a Sacatar Foundation fellowship and winner of

VSA's Driving Force award. She has been nominated for numerous awards

including a Joan Mitchel Foundation award, a Wynn Newhouse Award, a

McCloll Center residence and a Dedalus Foundation award. Her

published work includes The Right Not to Work: Disability and

Capitalism (Monthly Review, 2004) and Military Waxste in Our Drinking

Water (with Astra Taylor 2006 - nominated for a Project Censored Award

2007). She has just completed her master's degree from the

Department of Art Practice at Berkeley.

You are invited to:

THESE CANYONS -- the 38th Annual UC Berkeley Master of Fine Arts

Graduate Exhibition

May 16 - June 8, 2008

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

2625 Durant Ave.

Berkeley, CA 94720

OPENING NIGHT: FRIDAY, May 16

6:30 - 8:30 p.m.

Artists Talks: Sunday, May 18

3:00 p.m., Gallery 5

If you'd like more information about Sunny and her work, see her web

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