Taylor Sizemore’s artistic practice is a contemporary twist on the still life genre; using memories, objects and patterns to describe a life lived from her perspective. She works with oil paint on canvas, along with handmade pine frames. Sizemore has familial roots in the small coal mining town of Grundy, Virginia and grew up in Okinawa, Japan. She currently resides in the suburbs outside of Washington, DC. Sizemore graduated summa cum laude with a BFA in painting and drawing and a minor in art history at Longwood University. During her time in Farmville, she worked as an artist assistant and exhibited at galleries including the Longwood Center for the Visual Arts and the Bedford Gallery, recieving first place in the group exhbition "Art and The Archives". In 2023 Sizemore was contracted by the National Gallery of Art for events including “Homegrown” and “Poetry is a Country”, and was a recipient of the Carol Bird Ravenal Art Award for artistic research. At the start of 2024, Sizemore co-curated “Holding Hands, Holding Space'' at the Katzen Art Center, an MFA invitational exhibition fostering care and community among artists. She has also exhibited with Stable (DC), The Valdosta National (GA), Goodwin House (VA), and The American University Museum (DC). Most recently, Sizemore's first solo show, "Frame of Reference", opened at the Strathmore Mansion (MD), in the invitational gallery. Sizemore has works on paper and prints hosted at Transformer Gallery in Adams Morgan (DC). Her work resides in personal collections across the country, in Berlin, and Japan. Sizemore graduated in the spring of 2024 with her Master of Fine Arts Fellowship and graduate assistantship at American University.