ARTIST HIGHLIGHT:
William TaylorWilliam Taylor is an artist from Southern California whose work focuses on raw, evocative mental spaces. Using elements of abstract pattern and repetition, combined with poetic snippets of text, his work emphasizes introspection and rich emotional experience. "My work is a little odd too. I started doing this to make introspective and emotional spaces. Initially I started with figurative work, dabbled in various styles, and after a few years, found
that the spaces I really wanted to make were mental. I eventually realized that a combination of poetic text and abstract, colorful design was the best way to achieve these spaces."
Help I'm Trapped in the 21st Century, William Taylor, 2020. Acrylic and oil stick on canvas, 36 x 36 in. "Help I'm Trapped in the 21st Century was made in the summer of 2020. The design in the background is meant to be a fading flare, and this piece as a whole is a sort of tongue-in-cheek call for help, one across time through the medium of art. "I imagined people in a hopefully better future looking at this piece as if seeing this time period through a glass. Often when
we see older times in paintings, they aren't aware of us so much, we just observe them from afar. But with this piece there's a self-awareness to the statement, combined with a direct "HELP" to the viewer. It seemed like a powerful breaking of the 4th wall."
We Like Sweet Life, William Taylor, 2020. Acrylic and oil stick on canvas, 36 x 36 in. "The original title I had for We Like Sweet Life was Life's Rich Spectrum, which kind of captures the idea a little more directly. It's a celebration of the spectrum of life and our love-hate relationship with its highs and lows.This was a seminal piece for me in terms of tone. It can be felt in many different ways, I think. Being made in January of
2021, this piece is also a strong representation of a recent direction I've been pushing in stylistically: a kind of crude futurism, imperfect but highly patterned and colorful."
Follow William on Instagram: @williamtaylorpaintings. For purchases, please contact williamtaylorart3@gmail.com.
ANDREW EDLIN GALLERY:
Abigail DeVille: Homebody &
Beverly Buchanan: Shacks and LegendsMarch 20 – May 1, 2021 Andrew Edlin Gallery is pleased to present two concurrent exhibitions running from March through to May 2021. Homebody, an installation by artist Abigail DeVille. DeVille's body of work is centered around the cosmologies of marginalized people and places.
Abigail DeVille with Light of Freedom (2020) in Madison Square Park
Photo by Tonje Thilesen for The New York Times Homebody explores the legacy of homemaking and displacement through her family's experiences in the Great Migration. In the 1930s, DeVille's family moved north from Richmond, Virginia, landing first in Harlem and later, in the 1950s, the Bronx. This project was inspired as a dialogue with the gallery's concurrent show, Shacks and Legends, 1985–2011, a solo exhibition by Beverly Buchanan.
Watch a short video on the making of her public art commission, Light of Freedom (2020) below:
'Abigail DeVille: "Light of Freedom" | Art21 "Extended Play"' from Art21 (2021)
Orangeburg County Family House, Beverly Buchanan, 1993. Paint, sharpie, garland, necklace, wood chips, bark, buttons, bottle caps, license plate, film canister, thumbtacks, clay pot, glass bottle, thread and glue on wood,
14.25 x 14.75 x 10.5 in. In Shacks and Legends, the work of African American artist Beverly Buchanan (1940–2015) drew from her childhood memories and subsequent travels in Georgia and the Carolinas. Tapping the
tradition of African American “yard art,” Buchanan cited Southern self-taught artist Nellie Mae Rowe (1900–1982) as a source of inspiration.
Watch a short video on Buchanan's Sculpture House below:
ACTIONSPACE, PROJECT ABILITY & VENTURE ARTS:
Virtual ExhibitionsThree of the UK’s most prominent arts charity organisations, working with learning disabled artists, are joining forces on x3, a series of virtual exhibitions to showcase work by their artists including new work created during Lockdown. The project commences with the first of three exhibitions, ‘Electric Dreams’, which launched online yesterday, 11 March.
'Electric Dreams' exhibition preview
ActionSpace (London), Project Ability (Glasgow) and Venture Arts (Manchester) jointly possess over 100 years of experience nurturing creativity and
creating opportunities for artists with learning disabilities.
Left: Untitled, Declan Leslie
Right: Kipo and the Age of the Wonderbeasts, Gary Turner Taking place ‘in’ Manchester and hosted by Venture Arts, ‘Electric Dreams’ is inspired by the inner-world of dreamscapes and is curated by Venture Arts artists Daniel Elms and Sally Hirst. The show features the work of Daniel Elms (Venture Arts), Declan Leslie (ActionSpace) and Gary Turner (Project Ability).
To view the exhibition, go to artrabbit.com/events/electric-dreams-2021. For more information on the exhibition and upcoming events in the x3 project, go to venturearts.org.
MUSEUM of NAÏVE AND MARGINAL ART, SERBIA:
Female Francophone ArtistsCheck out interviews with Francophone artists Margot, Evelyne Postic and Julia Sisi on the Serbian Museum of Naïve and Marginal Art's YouTube Channel. The interview was recorded during the 19th Fine and Marginal Art Colony held in Zlatibor in 2017.
"FRANCOPHONIE 2021 | FRANKOFONIJA 2021 (Entretien | Intervju: Margot, Evelyne Postic, Julia Sisi)" by Muzej naivne i marginalne umetnosti (2021)
Et Cor Universum, Margot, 2017, coloured Indian ink on paper, 85 x 45 cm
Margot was born in Diou, France, in 1982. She began painting in 2014. She resides in Bourges. Read more about her and see more of here work at outsiderart.co.uk/artists/margot.
Evelyne Postic began painting in 1989. She resides in Lyon. She often works with a lot of colour, which is more of an instinctive than a symbolic choice, but sometimes she returns to monochromatic painting.
Serbia, Evelyne Postic, 2017, coloured Indian ink on paper, 39 x 28.5 cm
Loose Hair: Trees, Julia Sisi, 2017, combined technique on paper, 55 x 40 cm
Julia Sisi was born in Argentina in 1957. She began doing painting in 2003. She resides in Poulaines, France. Sisi’s use of black backgrounds came after a dream in which she was drawing with a red light. After that dream, she started to work on a black surface, reproducing the sensation of drawing with light,
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