David Taylor
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David Taylor, Untitled, 2011, oil on canvas.
Polyphony has its uses as a word applied to painting, especially in these recent works by David Taylor, although in nothing so crude a way as the color field equivalents of the Disney film Fantasia. The voices of color here are multiple and expansive on the surface, with no gratuitous gestures. All the relationships here are convincingly essential.
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David Taylor, Untitled (a bird appears), 2010, oil on canvas.
And while they share in the patterning work of Arshile Gorky and Joan Mitchell, they seem equally suggestive of Byzantine mosaic and Islamic tile. Nothing so precise as those precedents, perhaps, but similarly prolific in their exuberance and energy.
Other examples of this painter’s work are currently on view at The Grove, 71 Orange St. Contact the artist .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
I invite everyone to please come see David Taylor's paintings in person at The Grove, 71 Orange Street, New Haven, and my thanks to Stephen Kobasa always for his refreshing and enlightening insights, and prompting the viewer to enter in to the "seeing" process.