Henry Taylor

MoMA PS1

Sunday 29 January 2012 to Monday 09 April 2012
Los Angeles-based artist Henry Taylor (American, b. 1958) applies his brush both to canvas and to unconventional materials—suitcases, crates, cereal boxes, cigarette packs—offering a refreshing, idiosyncratic perspective on culture and politics using everyone and everything around him as source material.

While Taylor drew and painted in his youth, he studied art later in life, attending the California Institute of the Arts after working for ten years as a psychiatric technician at a state hospital. In the months preceding the exhibition, the artist will be in residency in one of MoMA PS1 ’s former classrooms, using it as his New York studio to create new work for the exhibition.

Location

MoMA PS1
22-25 Jackson Ave at the intersection of 46th Ave Long Island City
New York Precinct
New York
United States

Artists

The Long Jump by Carol Lewis
© All rights reserved Henry Taylor 2010 United States
Acrylic on canvas. 87 1/2 x 77 inches (165.1 x 172.7 cm). Courtesy the artist and Untitled,New York. © 2011 Henry Taylor.
Andrea Bowers
© All rights reserved Henry Taylor 2010 United States
Acrylic on canvas. 28 x 24 inches (71.1 x 61 cm). Courtesy the artist and Untitled,New York. © 2011 Henry Taylor.
Oh Johnnie Ray (my brother)
© All rights reserved Henry Taylor 2010 United States
Acrylic on canvas. 40 x 40 inches (101.6 x 101.6 cm). Courtesy the artist and Untitled,New York. © 2011 Henry Taylor.
More Come
© All rights reserved Henry Taylor 2010 United States
Mixed mediums. Dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist and Untitled, New York. © 2011 Henry Taylor.
Installation view of Henry Taylor at MoMA PS1
© All rights reserved Henry Taylor 2012 United States
© MoMA PS1, 2012; Photo: Matthew Septimus.
Installation view of Henry Taylor at MoMA PS1
© All rights reserved Henry Taylor 2012 United States
© MoMA PS1, 2012; Photo: Matthew Septimus.
Installation view of Henry Taylor at MoMA PS1
© All rights reserved Henry Taylor 2012 United States
© MoMA PS1, 2012; Photo: Matthew Septimus.