#chinatowntaylor

[trascapades]

🎨 🖤#ArtIsAWeapon

#BlackHistoryMonth /#WomensHistoryMonth

Artist: Henry Taylor @chinatowntaylor

Artwork: Andrea Motley Crabtree, the first, 2017. Acrylic on canvas.

On view in gallery 508 at @metmuseum

Images and caption reposted from @metmuseum “I’m speechless. Seeing this painting for the first time is incredible, and it doesn’t really seem real yet.” ✨ ⁣

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Meet Andrea Y. Motley Crabtree @motleycrabtree —the first woman to pass the rigorous U.S. Army test for deep sea diving, a highly specialized aspect of military service. 🌊 👩‍🚀 ⁣

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Based on a photograph taken in 1982 at a U.S. Navy facility in Panama City, Florida, this painting by Henry Taylor shows Crabtree wearing a standard white diving uniform and holding a Mark V helmet in her lap—a full suit that cumulatively weighed 198 lbs.⁣

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Earlier this year, Crabtree and her service dog Buddy visited The Met to see her portrait on view for the first time. Despite her monumental achievement in the military, her path forward was hindered by sexism and racism, prompting thoughts that speak to many of the exact questions posed in the Afrofuturist Period Room where the portrait is on view. As Crabtree remarks, “What could have been? What could I be if I had been allowed to be all that I could be? Same as Seneca village…what could have been had they been allowed to thrive?”⁣

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Taylor’s captivating painting remains inspirational to Crabtree. When told that visitors sometimes confuse her gear for other professions, she doesn’t mind: ⁣

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“If they see me as a pilot or as an astronaut, that’s alright, too. It says I can be anything I want to be!”⁣

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🎨 Henry Taylor (American, born 1958). Andrea Motley Crabtree, the first, 2017. Acrylic on canvas. On view in gallery 508. @metmodern @motleycrabtree #MetModern #BlackHistoryMonth #MetAfrofuturist #AndreaMotleyCrabtree

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[artbookdap]

Yes! Make some space on your bookshelves for these superb 2022 books on Black Art, selected by Victoria L. Valentine @culturetype⁠ ⁠ 1. 'Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour – Frederick Douglass,' published by @delmonico_books @tangteachingmuseum @magrochester & @isaacjulien Studio⁠ ⁠ 2. 'Pòtoprens: The Urban Artists of Port-au-Prince,' published by @pioneerworks⁠ ⁠ 3. 'El Anatsui: The Reinvention of Sculpture,' published by @damiani_books⁠ ⁠ 4. @nickcaveart 'Forothermore,' published by @delmonico_books & @mcachicago ⁠ ⁠ 5. 'Richard Hunt' @richardhuntsculptor published by @gregoryrmiller ⁠ ⁠ 6. @marilyn.nance 'Last Day in Lagos,' published by @cara_the_org & @fourthwall_books⁠ ⁠ 7. 'Henry Taylor: B Side' @chinatowntaylor published by @delmonico_books & @moca ⁠ ⁠ 8. 'Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces,' published by @themuseumofmodernart & @studiomuseum⁠ ⁠ 9. @fireleibaez⁠ 'to breathe full and free,' published by @gregoryrmiller⁠ ⁠ Read reviews of each of the books via linkinbio!⁠ ⁠ #culturetypebestbooks2022 #culturetypebestartbooks #bestblackartbooks #bestblackartbooks2022 #culturetypebestblackartbooks #culturetypebestblackartbooks2022⁠ ⁠ https://www.instagram.com/p/CnFGNIFOTss/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[binkloves]

The muse’s visit

“Who is it, it’s a friend” by Henry Taylor

Portrait of artist Tiona M.

[hldailyupdate]

Harry started following chinatowntaylor on Instagram! (20 August 2020)

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[marcopolorules]

"A medida que la mañana fue avanzando fueron llegando distintos grupos de gente que aparecían por las colinas arenosas y bajaban a bañarse a la playa. Se daba por sobrentendido que a partir de las once las mujeres y niños de la colonia veraniega se convertían en los amos de la playa. En primer lugar las mujeres se desvestían, se ponían los trajes de baño y se cubrían la cabeza con horrorosos gorritos de baño; luego desabrochaban a los niños. La playa quedaba sembrada de pequeños montoncitos de vestidos y zapatos; los grandes sombreros veraniegos, sujetos con piedras para impedir que el viento se los llevase, parecían enormes pechinas. Era curioso, pero incluso el mar parecía adoptar un sonido distinto cuando todas aquellas figuras saltarinas y risueñas se adentraban en las olas."⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ "As the morning progressed, different groups of people arrived, appearing on the sandy hills and coming down to bathe on the beach. It was understood that after eleven the women and children of the summer colony became the masters of the beach. In the first place the women undressed, put on their bathing suits and covered their heads with hideous bathing caps; then they unzipped the children. The beach was littered with little piles of dresses and shoes; the big summer hats, held up with stones to keep the wind from carrying them away, looked like huge pendentives. It was curious, but even the sea seemed to adopt a different sound when all those laughing and jumping figures entered the waves."⠀ ⠀ Katherine Mansfield⠀ Fiesta en el jardín / Party in the garden⠀ & Henry Taylor @chinatowntaylor (artist)⠀ ⠀ ⠀ #portraitart #portraitpainting #acrylic #acrylicart #acrylicpaint #acrylicpainting #acrylique #acrylicpainter #acryliconcanvas #acrylicpaints #acrylicpaintings #contemporaryart #contemporaryartist #contemporarypainting #contemporarypaintings #contemporarypainter #newcontemporary #modernart #modernpainting #artgallery #contemporaryartgallery #figurative #figurativeart #figurativepainting #figurativeportrait #undergroundart #artdaily #vagabondwho #marcopolorules #henrytaylor https://www.instagram.com/p/B9Gmwvqod1R/?igshid=1isdislh3cmuw

[claire-desjardins-art]

#Artist @chinatowntaylor in his #painting #studio. ・・・ A loss for words https://www.instagram.com/p/CA-LwVzJJ3g/?igshid=1m5bz5jd0gz5p

[mhafftka]

I loved painting @devhynes for his first concert I hope to paint him again can’t wait to see @chinatowntaylor portrait of him. I am a fan of Henry’s My work is represented by @galeriezadra Galerie Zadra Contemporary art gallery. Australia and Europe. http://galeriezadra.com/artist/michael-hafftka #art #artist #artlife #artwork #artworld #artoftheday #artistoftheday #creativity #contemporaryart #drawing #expressionism #fineart #figurative #instaart #imagination #inspiration #instagramart #instaartoftheday #modernart #nycart #NewYorkArtist #watercolor #painting #neoexpressionism #kunstverk #visualart #dibujo #artcollector #wip (at Columbia Street, New York)

[artabovereality]

“Either you slang rock or got a wicked jumpshot”.. • There is nothing more American than the visuals in this #HenryTaylor (@chinatowntaylor) painting. Imagine living across the street from a prison.. imagine having to not only avoid it physically but mentally.. imagine the obstacle of it all.. the track suit makes so much sense... in the words of @realghostfacekillah “RUN!”.. • Henry Taylor, The Long Jump by Carl Lewis, 2010 as part of #30Americans. • #artabovereality #track #prison #community #painting #contemporaryart #USA #Red #contemporarypainting #barnesfoundation #philadelphia #Gold #915 (at The Barnes Foundation) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5mIA3GnRME/?igshid=whuzt482ea7k

[bellus-spiritus]

More images fr last night’s opening (see previous post) #HenryTaylor @chinatowntaylor Must see exhibition “NIECE COUSIN KIN LOOK HOW LONG IT'S BEEN” @blumandpoe NY Sep 24 – Nov 2, 2019. Danke @christianrosastudio for the 📸 It’s Los Angeles-based Henry Taylor’s 6th solo exhibition with the gallery. Consistent with Taylor’s oeuvre, these new paintings weave together visual references spanning contemporary politics, American social adversity, and the faces of his milieu articulated through the language of portraiture. However, this latest series includes many works created during Henry’s recent travels to #Dakar #Senegal, when @desti.knee and an entire crew were together for #KehindeWiley’s inauguration of his #BlackRockSenegal, compositions hatched from contemplations on the #AfricanDiaspora, #colonialism, #slavery, the odds of diverging routes of struggle, and also on unity and seeing oneself in the face of a stranger.  In the same way Taylor has depicted #AfricanAmerican sports stars, icons of #BlackHistory, or the patients of a state mental hospital, in this new series the artist captures an essence in his subjects that is both universal & exposes something of Taylor’s own emotional depth & personal storyline. As Zadie Smith wrote in 2018: “This is painting that goes way beyond the brute fact of a body. Other people look; Taylor sees. He puts himself in the way of people.” Each painting is another piece in an ever-growing visual collage reflecting a cultural community to which Taylor belongs, images that remain thinly veiled psychic snapshots of the artist’s path to mapping his own identity and the splintering fragments of a collective identity. #representationmatters #blackness #blackportraiture #blackexcellence #africa #africanamerican #blackart #contemporaryblackart #blumandpoe #blackbeauty #blackgirlmagic #blackidentity #artlovers #artcollectors #artcurators #artadvisory #artmuse #destineeross @desti.knee & #joakimvonditmar (at Blum & Poe) https://www.instagram.com/p/B217vbllZbB/?igshid=6985kc7xfl4u

[instapicsil3]

At the helm of @celine, the iconoclastic @hedislimane is launching the French fashion house’s first fragrance collection. It's called Haute Parfumerie and it will feature 11 original scents, with names like Reptile and Nightclubbing. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ "Although each of the perfumes has a personality, a uniqueness, a singular trail and patina, in this Haute Parfumerie project for Celine there is the idea of defining my style as well as a crossways olfactory tone," Slimane told us. Read more about it at the link in bio. (🖋: @chandlerburr, portrait: @chinatowntaylor, 📷: @philippe.lacombe) https://ift.tt/2P6zckD

[trascapades]

🎨 #ArtIsAWeapon #ExhibitClosing TODAY (January 28) IS THE LAST DAY TO SEE "HENRY TAYLOR: B SIDE" AT THE WHITNEY MUSEUM! Surveying 30 years of Taylor’s work in painting, sculpture and installation, this exhibit IS NOT TO BE MISSED and is the perfect way to spend this rainy, chilly winter day. GO! 🙌🏿💜

📍Whitney Museum of American Art

99 Gansevoort Street, #NYC 10014

⏰️10:30 AM–6:00 PM

@chinatowntaylor

@whitneymuseum

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"For more than thirty years, the Los Angeles–based artist #HenryTaylor (b. 1958) has portrayed people from widely different backgrounds—family members, friends, neighbors, celebrities, politicians, and strangers—with a mixture of raw immediacy and tenderness. His improvisational approach to artmaking is hinted at in this exhibition’s title, Henry Taylor: B Side, which refers to the side of a record album that often contains lesser-known, more experimental songs.

Taylor’s paintings, executed quickly and instinctually from memory, newspaper clippings, snapshots, and in-person sittings, are variously light-hearted, intimate, and somber. In them, he combines flat planes of bold, sensuous color with areas of rich, intimate detail and loose brushstrokes to create paintings that feel alive. Guided by a deep-seated empathy for people and their lived experiences, Taylor captures the humanity, social milieu, and mood of his subjects, whose visceral presence is heightened by their closely cropped, often life-size images. In working from personal experience and shared history, Taylor offers a view of everyday life in the United States that is grounded in the experiences of his own community, including the incarceration, poverty, and often deadly interactions with police that disproportionately affect Black Americans. Deeply steeped in art history, his work forms a continuum with the expressive figurative painting and politically engaged work of European and American artists from Max Beckmann to Bob Thompson, Philip Guston, and Alice Neel."

#BlackGirlArtGeeks #BlackArtists #BlackArt

[artbookdap]

Big review for 'Henry Taylor: B Side' at @moca in the @latimes⁠ ⁠ @therealchristopherknight writes, "Taylor’s scenes of everyday life perform what might be called stop-motion image-making. Formal stasis presses against visible paint handling. The picture sticks in your brain, while your body responds to the painterly scene. Sometimes the subject is grim, which adds to the impact."⁠ ⁠ Read the full review via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ Exhibition catalog published by @delmonico_books⁠ ⁠ Edited by Bennett Simpson. Foreword by Johanna Burton. Text by Wanda Coleman, @karondavis Charles Gaines, Harmony Holiday, Bob Kaufman, Walter Price, Bennett Simpson, Frances Stark. Conversation with @chinatowntaylor & Hamza Walker.⁠ ⁠ Read more via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ #henrytaylor #henrytaylorbside @charlesgainesstudio https://www.instagram.com/p/CmKjmI2J424/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[bandofvices]

They might be giants... But they thought enough to stop thru #BandofVices and we say Thank You... . @ToddGrayLA... @ChinatownTaylor... . We appreciate You... . Stay tuned, Good People, we are excited to announce our upcoming new show tomorrow... . Gallery@BandofVices.com to receive our updates, events & newsletters... . Opening Nite is gonna be...?! (at Band of Vices) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpjCTl4FMy5/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ln5y71d7wkak

[marcopolorules]

"No dejamos de querer a la gente cuando nos lo proponemos, el amor no termina cuando lo deseamos, termina un buen día, lo deseemos o no, y termina entonces de forma inevitable. Es un empeño inútil proponerse dejar de amar o proponerse seguir amando."⠀ ⠀ "We don't stop loving people when we set our minds to it, love doesn't end when we want it, a good day ends, whether we want it or not, and then it inevitably ends. It is a futile endeavor to propose to stop loving or to propose to continue loving."⠀ ⠀ Milena Busquets⠀ Hoy he conocido a alguien / Today i met someone⠀ & Henry Taylor @chinatowntaylor (artist)⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ #portraitart #portraitpainting #acrylic #acrylicart #acrylicpaint #acrylicpainting #acrylique #acrylicpainter #acryliconcanvas #acrylicpaints #acrylicpaintings #contemporaryart #contemporaryartist #contemporarypainting #contemporarypaintings #contemporarypainter #newcontemporary #modernart #modernpainting #artgallery #contemporaryartgallery #figurative #figurativeart #figurativepainting #figurativeportrait #undergroundart #artdaily #vagabondwho #marcopolorules #henrytaylor https://www.instagram.com/p/B9yzKSBI2Mz/?igshid=m9zv14fdqpx2

[inspireif]

“Watch your back” #HenryTaylor at the #hammer_museum #chinatowntaylor

[fabarmybeauty]

The artist Henry Taylor (@chinatowntaylor) in his Los Angeles studio, alongside the two works inspired by Jay-Z that he painted exclusively for T’s Dec. 3 Holiday issue. At left, “Go Next Door and Ask Michelle’s Momma Mrs Robinson If I Can Borrow 20 Dollars Til Next Week?” (2017), and at right, “I Am a Man” (2017), which appears on T’s cover. Click the link in our bio to see photos from our studio visit with the artist. Photo by @lizkuball