artist statement
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My paintings usually remind one of abstracted landscapes and cosmic scenes. I use oil/acrylic paints and employ a bold and striking color palette.
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artist biography
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I have been blessed with a great degree of success in a series of exhibitions and competitions and won the People’s Choice award four times at the Big Bend Cares Charity Auction. Born in Newton, Illinois, I currently live in Tallahassee, Florida.
Influenced by abstractionists such as Gerhard Richter and Jackson Pollock, Taylor has an innate curiosity and impulse to experiment in his art. Since he began painting eight years ago, he has typically worked with oil paints, applied with a palette knife. Yet, in putting paint to canvas, he has also been known to repurpose everyday household items, such as straws and bottle caps. His atypical methods result in unusual textures and shapes that help tell the story of the painting. |
Color too plays a crucial role in Taylor’s artistic expression. Self-professedly “beholden to the flow of creative juices,” Taylor says he only works “when the inspiration strikes him,” and it is often color itself that serves as a catalyst. In particular, the brilliant combinations of colors he sees in nature, from the “vivid memory of a Mexico Beach sunset” to “the intense yellows and oranges of roadside wildflowers,” stir his imagination.
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SHOWS
Sep 4 - Oct 11, 2020 | For the Love of Color
Apr 5 - May 18, 2019 | Color Chaos: New Abstractions
Aug 4 - Sep 16, 2017 | Kinetic Expressions
Jun 3 - Jul 23, 2016 | Chromatic Minimalism and Converging Art
Apr 5 - May 18, 2019 | Color Chaos: New Abstractions
Aug 4 - Sep 16, 2017 | Kinetic Expressions
Jun 3 - Jul 23, 2016 | Chromatic Minimalism and Converging Art
