Taylor White’s (b. 1978; based in Richmond, VA) art defies categorization, juxtaposing text, found objects, and imagery such as cars, landscapes, and inanimate objects, sometimes all within a single work. He utilizes a vast spectrum of media in his practice, ranging from spiral bindings, spray paint and airbrush, plasticized textiles, and charcoal, which lends a three-dimensionality to this work. Known for his multi- disciplinary practice whose paintings employ a wide range of media and techniques to explore abstraction, tone, content, and mark-making, White’s paintings challenge the viewer to uncover and identify unconventional materials and methods.
Taylor White
Fixed Sight, 2021
Acrylic, Flashe, cardboard, gouache, metal snaps sewn onto Tyvek
46 x 36 in (116.8 x 91.4 cm)
Taylor White
Escape Route, 2021
Acrylic, Flashe, cardboard, metal snaps sewn onto Tyvek
46 x 36 in (116.8 x 91.4 cm)
Taylor White
A Park and Fire, 2021
Acrylic, Flashe, oil stick, cardboard sewn onto canvas and Tyvek
46 x 36 in (116.8 x 91.4 cm)
Taylor White
New Egg, Sunshine, 2021
Acrylic and Flashe on canvas collage
46 x 36 x 1.5 in (116.8 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm)
Taylor White
Sky Sight, 2021
Acrylic, Flashe, cardboard, metal snaps sewn onto canvas
84 x 72 in (213.4 x 182.9 cm)
Taylor White
Landing On A Hill, 2021
Acrylic, Flashe, oil, metal snaps sewn onto canvas
46 x 36 in (116.8 x 91.4 cm)
Taylor White
Look at These Space Rocks OMG, 2021
Acrylic, charcoal, spray paint, marker and sewing on canvas
76 x 72 x 1.5 in (193 x 182.9 x 3.8 cm)
Taylor White
All Of This Juice Is My Juice; My Name Is On The Back, 2021
Mixed media on canvas
73 x 90 x 2 in (185.4 x 228.6 x 5.1 cm)
Taylor White
Turbo Battery (Maximum Turbo), 2020
Oil stick, spray paint and airbrush on canvas
81 x 62 x 1.5 in (205.7 x 157.5 x 3.8 cm)
A video presentation of Taylor White’s first solo presentation with the gallery. Seen together, these works, and this exhibition, are as close to a perfect harmony as a dissonant melody can be. Large-scale paintings are presented alongside more intimately scaled mixed-media work. Dominating, colorful abstraction gives way to found and imagined landscapes as though seen through windows or down rifle scopes. Each painting has a tough balance within itself. Multilayered pieces contain sociological determinations between industrial and rural, memory and nostalgia, identity and community. Alienation from society, loss of identity, and the loss of self are buried in the deeper parts.
