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Born 1958 in Oxnard, California
Lives and works in Los Angeles
The paintings of Henry Taylor are personal narratives based in a broader social context, formally articulated through a thick application of painterly gesture. Suggesting a certain penchant for collagist sensibilities, the painted objects can find themselves on various supports: cigarette packs, bits of furniture and various discarded materials, as well as on traditionally stretched canvas. The visual impact of these paintings oscillates between the sometimes unsettling nature of the narrative (which almost always leans towards portraiture), and the painterly chops that come with the visceral application of pigment to surface.
Henry Taylor has recently exhibited at the Studio Museum, Harlem; Cardenas Bellanger, Paris; Sister, Los Angeles; Daniel Reich, New York; Peres Projects, Berlin; Milliken, Stockholm; Jack Hanley, Los Angeles; Samson Projects, Boston; the Rubell Family Collection, Miami; and will have an upcoming exhibition at the Santa Monica Museum of Art.
 Henry Taylor, "From Congo to the capital, and black again", 2007, Acrylic and collage on wood panel, 193 x 203 cm |