These two pictorial systems coalesce into blocky portraits, busts atop pedestals, or striated legs that float in gauzy chromatic grounds. Taylor’s creative process, which largely encompasses painting and drawings, is grounded in the treatment of surfaces and its potentiality for creating depth and tension. Subject matter appears, dissolves and reemerges into a broader meditation on the nature of abstraction and the painted object as emotive. Taylor displays an acute awareness of the conventions and limitations of both abstraction and representation, constructing his work on the continuum between the two experiences. Taylor received an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale School of Art in 1998. He is currently a Professor in the Fine Art Department at Rhode Island School of Design.
Brooklyn, New York