David
BIO

David Taylor
STUDIO LOCATION: #207, North Armory, Colt Building, 7 Sequassen, Hartford,CT 06105
STUDIO PHONE: 860.293.0342
HOURS: during the week, by appointment
DaveTayl@cris.com

PAINTINGS 1 | PAINTINGS 2 | BIO & STATEMENT


STATEMENT OF WORK:
Rhythms of color and line give coherence to constructions built up from the quirky ground of personal experience and belief. I work out of and into a sense of meaning that demands a synthesis of humility and grandeur. I see resurrection as an everyday occurance in this crisis time-bewildering, at once solemn and comic, but only a beginning. Spirituality is a funny business. Spirituality is slippery. We rise up ethereal, but we do discover ourselves in conflict, in changes of mind, in memory and piles of stuff. When the great Bell rings, we dive into our record players, trying to hear. Working in media heavy with tradition and history, I look around with my American-type eyes. Pathos and pratfalls and paint, optimistic at heart.

MEDIA:
Oil on canvas, oilstick and graphite on paper.

DESCRIPTION OF WORK:
Oil paintings, lyrical in color. The pencil drawingstend to be more complex in composition and enigmatic in imagery but the gap is closing from both directions. Also, smaller paintings and oilstick drawings. The desire for subtlety, richness and modulation and the desire for a direct and simple gesture constantly inform each other.

RECENT EXHIBITIONS
Showing at the Open Studio Weekend, every 6 months since 1994
"Conversations" juried show at Canton Art Guild, May, 1997
The Connecticut Open, Real Art Ways,May-June,1995
Snowball III Aids Benefit, Rocky Hill, March,1995
Photography, Prints and Drawings, Artworks, March,1995
MFA Thesis Show, "Bargain Basement Heraclitus" ,U of Hartford, December, 1994.
"paintings", Pumphouse Gallery, November, 1993
"personal", group show,Christine Breslin, David Taylor and Andrea Myers, U of Hartford, December, 1993

RESIDENTIAL HISTORY, GEOGRAPHICS:
Born in Boston, I grew up in North Haven, CT and Washington, DC, studied painting in Baltimore (Maryland Institute, BFA,1977), New York City (New York Studio School,76-78) and Hartford (MFA,1994). In Hartford area since 1982.


PAINTINGS 1 | PAINTINGS 2 | BIO & STATEMENT


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