Artist Profiles

These paintings exhibit a curious aesthetic; one that offers a neat combination of architectural references with an organic sensibility plus an allusion to landscape. At the same time, though resolutely abstractions, they playfully hint at figuration. There is a multitude of active visual elements here - enough that might otherwise result in a chaotic mish-mosh.  In Taylor�s capable hands however, a wonderful economy of balance is managed in each piece. The forms and colors lean toward pushing these pictures to a reductive conclusion. But it just never quite happens because Taylor brings to bear a sweet, understated sensuality. You�re first aware of this in the broadly painted larger forms. Look at a painting like �How Into What� with its gloriously

Another Living Thing, 2000, oil on canvas, 36 x 36 in

rich maroon area near the bottom.  Then notice how most of the forms in this piece possess a liquidity that echoes the medium by which they

How Into What, 2001, oil on wood, 18 x 16 in.

No Words, 2002, oil on canvas, 30 x 32 in.

are created.  Yet for all this serious attention there is a lighter side to this painting that is reflected in the work at large.

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