Taylor Cuozzo Dronebarger
Bio
Taylor Cuozzo Dronebarger is an artist from Red Bank, New Jersey, where she first developed a love for art while attending Red Bank Regional High School and was apart of the Visual and Performing Arts Academy. She continued her studies at Texas Christian University, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in painting. Throughout her four years at TCU, she was awarded the Nordan Scholar Award each semester in recognition of her artistic work. During her undergraduate years, Cuozzo 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 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
My work explores what it means to encounter the natural world through layers of mediation. Increasingly, we experience landscapes on screens, compressed, filtered, and algorithmically shaped, long before or even instead of meeting them in person. In my paintings, I fragment and “glitch” atmospheric scenes to reflect this shift. Digital interruptions, color distortions, and ruptured horizons become a way to question how technology alters our sense of place.Yet within the fractures, the possibility of the sublime remains. I am interested in how beauty insists on surfacing even through noise, and how a single small error can open up new ways of seeing. By destabilizing familiar spaces, I invite viewers to consider both the loss and the unexpected richness that comes from navigating a world where the digital and the natural are constantly intertwined. My paintings hold space for that tension: the disorientation, the longing, and the quiet, persistent wonder that survives in the mess.