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Henry Taylor (born 1958) is an American artist and painter who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. He is best known for his acrylic paintings, mixed media sculptures, and installations.
Oct 4, 2023 · For more than thirty years, the Los Angeles–based artist Henry Taylor (b. 1958) has portrayed people from widely different backgrounds—family members, friends, neighbors, celebrities, politicians, and strangers—with a mixture of raw immediacy and tenderness.
Oct 19, 2023 · HENRY TAYLOR. How the figurative painter made portraiture the dominant mode of art in our era — and changed the way America sees itself.
Jul 16, 2018 · Painted between 2015 and 2017, Taylor’s monumental work—like Picasso ’s modernist greyscale masterpiece from 1937, a response to the bombing of the Basque town it’s titled after—is an epic indictment of violence, chaos, and the suffering of a people. Taylor’s painting, which hung at the 2017 Whitney Biennial, is a mix of fact and fantasy.
Oct 17, 2023 · Henry Taylor’s ‘B Side’ Is Full of Grade-A Paintings. The artist brings an energy to painting that reverberates through his exuberant yet sobering survey at the Whitney Museum. Share full...
Nov 17, 2022 · Los Angeles painter Henry Taylor, whose canvases weave together quotidian life with currents of history, is the subject of a one-man show at MOCA.
Henry Taylor: B Side is the first exhibition to survey the career of leading contemporary artist Henry Taylor (b. 1958, based in Los Angeles). Through painting, drawing, sculpture, and installation, this retrospective celebrates an artist widely appreciated for his unique aesthetic, social vision, and freewheeling experimentation.
Oct 26, 2022 · Henry Taylor, via Whitney Museum of American Art. The fact that Taylor is only now getting his first retrospective in his own hometown — 22 years after his first gallery show in Los Angeles and a...
Henry Taylor is a contemporary African-American painter whose enigmatic works include portraits of psychiatric patients, historical figures, friends, and pop culture references, as seen in his Untitled (2021)—a rendition of Kendrick Lamar’s album cover for DAMN (2017).
Apr 2, 2016 · The artist known for his sensitive, psychologically intense portraits tells Artspace what he learned from his ten years of working as a psychiatric technician in a California state hospital.
