Taylor Cuozzo Dronebarger
Bio
Taylor Cuozzo Dronebarger makes landscape based paintings. She was born in 1999 in Red Bank, New Jersey. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in painting from Texas Christian University. Throughout her four years at TCU, she was awarded the Nordan Scholar Award each semester in recognition of her work. During her undergraduate years, she focused primarily on oil painting and landscape-based work. After graduating in 2021, she spent several years working in the nonprofit sector and teaching art, experiences that deepened her connection to community, landscape, and creative practice. In 2025, Cuozzo began pursuing her Master of Fine Arts at American University, where she also holds a graduate assistantship. Her work has been recognized with the Ruth Meixner-Bird Scholarship, supporting her continued research into painting, materiality, and contemporary image making. She currently resides in Washington, D.C.
Artist Statement
I investigate the meaning of presence in an increasingly digital world through oil paintings and modular work. I consider how we experience, perceive, and connect with the natural landscape in the digital age. Using abstraction, vibrant color, and shifts in opacity, I create spaces that move between visibility and obscurity, presence and absence. My paintings invite viewers to slow down and consider what it means to be truly present, both within a landscape and within themselves. Through the act of painting, I seek to create moments of stillness that encourage a deeper awareness of our surroundings and our relationship to the world around us.