Henry Taylor
“Blues for Smoke” at Whitney Museum
April 22nd, 2013 in Exhibitions No Comments
Artists: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Romare Bearden, Gregg Bordowitz, Mark Bradford, Edward Clark, Roy DeCarava, Beauford Delaney, Jeff Donaldson, Stan Douglas, Jimmie Durham, Melvin Edwards, William Eggleston, Charles Gaines, Renée Green, David Hammons, Kira Lynn Harris, Rachel Harrison, Barkley L. Hendricks, Leslie Hewitt, Martin Kippenberger, Jutta Koether, Liz Larner, Zoe Leonard, Glenn Ligon, Kerry James Marshall, Dave McKenzie, Rodney McMillian, Mark Morrisroe, Matt Mullican, Senga Nengudi, Kori Newkirk, Lorraine O’Grady, John Outterbridge, William Pope.L, Jeff Preiss, Amy Sillman, Lorna Simpson, Henry Taylor, Alma W. Thomas, Bob Thompson, Wu Tsang, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, Jack Whitten, William Thomas Williams, Martin Wong
Venue: Whitney Museum, New York
Exhibition Title: Blues for Smoke
Date: February 7 – April 28, 2013
Full gallery of images, press release and link available after the jump.
Tags: Alma W. Thomas, Amy Sillman, Barkley L. Hendricks, Beauford Delaney, Bob Thompson, Carrie Mae Weems, Charles Gaines, Dave McKenzie, David Hammons, Edward Clark, Glenn Ligon, Gregg Bordowitz, Group Show, Henry Taylor, Jack Whitten, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jeff Donaldson, Jeff Preiss, Jimmie Durham, John Outterbridge, Jutta Koether, Kara Walker, Kerry James Marshall, Kira Lynn Harris, Kori Newkirk, Leslie Hewitt, Liz Larner, Lorna Simpson, Lorraine O’Grady, Mark Bradford, Mark Morrisroe, Martin Kippenberger, Martin Wong, Matt Mullican, Melvin Edwards, Museum, Rachel Harrison, Renée Green, Rodney McMillian, Romare Bearden, Roy DeCarava, Senga Nengudi, Stan Douglas, Whitney Museum, William Eggleston, William Pope.L, William Thomas Williams, Wu Tsang, Zoe Leonard
Henry Taylor at Blum & Poe
March 22nd, 2013 in Exhibitions No Comments
Artist: Henry Taylor
Venue: Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
Date: February 23 – March 30, 2013
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Tags: Blum & Poe, California, Henry Taylor, Los Angeles, United States
Henry Taylor at UNTITLED
April 18th, 2012 in Exhibitions No Comments
Artist: Henry Taylor
Venue: UNTITLED, New York
Exhibition Title: March Forth
Date: March 4 –April 22, 2012
Full gallery of images, press release and link available after the jump.
Images:
Images courtesy of UNTITLED, New York.
Press Release:
UNTITLED is ferocious to present a new solo show of work by Henry Taylor.
Remarkably prolific, Taylor began painting seriously at the California state hospital where he worked as a psychiatric nurse for ten years. While still in school, he developed a style that was both understated and nuanced and began working, more or less, compulsively, painting people he’d find on the street and becoming a fixture in downtown LA. Since then, his studio has had a fairly constant flow of friends, neighbors and strangers, all sitting for portraits.
For his show at the gallery, Henry will install an African hut, a large-scale sculpture built in part from the miscellany stashed in his studio and inspired by a recent trip to Ethiopia. The piece is a hodgepodge of random and found objects ranging from clusters of Chinese brooms, a disrobed mannequin, and a taxidermied hyena. Made in the same spontaneous spirit as his paintings, the hut is a kind of carefully curated randomness, both a departure and expansion of his style.
The exhibition highlights Henry’s recent movement beyond canvases, building upon his “African Jungle” made of broom sticks, painted detergent bottles and old furniture (with a few paintings buried inside as well) first shown at LA’s Blum & Poe gallery and currently on view at MoMA PS1, as part as the artist’s mid-career retrospective. Above all, the new work is a strange social space (its main structure can fit about eight full-grown adults inside), a kind of extension of Henry’s studio that speaks volumes about its creator. It is calculated chaos, simultaneously jarring and welcoming.
Henry Taylor (born 1958, Oxnard, CA, lives and works in Los Angeles) studied painting at California Institute of Arts. He was included in 30 Americans, a survey of the most important African American artists of the last three decades organized by the Rubell Family Collection and recently on view at the Corcoran Museum of Arts in Washington DC. He has had solo shows in LA at Sister, Blum & Poe and Mesler & Hug and, in New York, at Rental Gallery, the Studio Museum in Harlem and, most recently, MoMA PS1.
Link: Henry Taylor at UNTITLED
Tags: Henry Taylor, New York, United States, Untitled
Henry Taylor at MoMA PS1
April 18th, 2012 in Exhibitions No Comments
Artist: Henry Taylor
Venue: MoMA PS1, Long Island
Date: January 29 – April 9, 2012
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Tags: Henry Taylor, MoMA PS1, Museum, New York, United States
Henry Taylor at Mesler & Hug
April 20th, 2009 in Exhibitions No Comments
Artist: Henry Taylor
Venue: Mesler & Hug, Los Angeles
Date: April 4 – May 9, 2009
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Tags: Henry Taylor, Los Angeles, Mesler & Hug, United States
