Al Taylor: Early Paintings - by Al Taylor & John Yau (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Published on the occasion of an exhibition at David Zwirner, New York, in spring 2017, <i>Al Taylor: Early Paintings</i> is the first book to focus exclusively on the artist's works on canvas, featuring a selection of rarely seen paintings created between 1971 and 1980.</b> <p/>Al Taylor began his studio practice as a painter and although he is more widely known for the three-dimensional works he started making in 1985, the artist maintained that his constructions weren't "at all about sculptural concerns; [they come] from a flatter set of traditions." Throughout his career, whether he worked on canvas, drawings and prints, or sculpture, the creative process of Taylor's oeuvre was fundamentally grounded in the formal concerns of painting. <p/>New scholarship by poet and art critic John Yau examines the visual relationships that connect Taylor's paintings, drawings, and sculptural objects, while also reflecting on the art world in New York City during the 1970s. In addition, a conversation conducted by Mimi Thompson between renowned painters Stanley Whitney and Billy Sullivan--all of whom knew Taylor well during his lifetime--provides insight into his reputation as an "artist's artist." Twenty-six paintings are at the heart of this catalogue--embodying the subtleties of reduction and restraint, they nonetheless have hints of the idiosyncratic playfulness that would come to characterize Taylor's later works. In some canvases, the artist delineates spatial perspectives by incorporating the wall in shaped compositions where a single color often dominates; elsewhere, it is the interaction of his color juxtapositions and fluid paint application that energize the canvas. Both painterly and sculptural in their address, these works deviate from the usual tropes of abstraction to uniquely engage space, perception, and possess a lyrical rhythm. <p/>This new publication reveals and validates the importance of Al Taylor's paintings both within his own practice and in the context of twentieth-century abstraction.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>Al Taylor: Early Paintings</i> "provides a clear and impressive view of Al Taylor's earliest visual ideas, and hints at how he began to transition to some of his later work, illuminating a compelling segment of a searching, innovative artist's progress."--Two Coats Staff "Two Coats of Paint"<br><br>"Al Taylor's painting practice - an undertaking whose success was tied to its degree of artlessness - seemed to court, if not the 'death of painting, ' then a refutation of the traditional hierarchy that places painting at the top of the heap."--Thomas Micchelli "Hyperallergic"<br><br>"The memories collected here the Old English sheepdog named Wrecks; the obsession with Hawaiian music; the T-shirt emblazoned with Clement Greenberg's face, worn when Taylor 'wanted to start trouble'-offer a glimpse into the inner workings of [Taylor's] mind."--Kate Sutton "BOOKFORUM"<br><br>"This show of early paintings by Taylor offers the opportunity to see the artist's genesis toward his later sculptural works: his unique approach to color, composition, and what might be called in today's parlance 'provisional painting.'"--Tom McGlynn "The Brooklyn Rail"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Al Taylor </b>(1948-1999) was an American artist known for his uniquely innovative approach to process and materials that encompassed two-dimensional drawings and three-dimensional objects. Taylor ultimately sought to expand the possibilities of vision by creating new ways of experiencing and imagining space and his work provides the viewer with an insight into the artist's thinking and his investigations of perception across several dimensions. <p/><b>John Yau</b> is an American poet who writes about art, collaborates with artists, and is the publisher of Black Square Editions. His most recent book is <i>Catherine Murphy</i> (2016), the first monograph on this celebrated artist. He is one of the founders of <i>Hyperallergic Weekend</i>, an online magazine, and contributes regularly to it, as well as to <i>The Brooklyn Rail</i>. Yau is also professor of critical studies at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.
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