Henry Taylor

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Acquired by the present owner from the above

In good condition. Scattered areas of surface abrasion along upper edge and along top of the right and left edges.
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Henry Taylor drew and painted in his earlier years, but he did not recieve formal art training until he attended the California Institute of the Arts and received a BA in 1995.  Although considered an emerging artist, he has always observed the people and the world around him with a very observant eye.  One of his first solo exhibitions in New York was at the Daniel Reich Gallery in February 1995.  Roberta Smith reviewed the show and stated 'he paints the people in his life and most, like him, are black.  His work is implicitly political, explicitly painterly and borders on several not always related territories: early Pop Art, outsider art figuration and quasi-academic realism, with some rough-edged collage thrown in for good measure.' (The New York Times, February 18, 2005).  His art made another major New York appearance at a solo exhibition of his portraiture and recent figurative paintings at the Studio Museum Harlem from April 11- July 1, 2007.