Taylor McKimens is an American artist and sculptor renowned for his vibrant, comic-influenced paintings and installations. His formative years in Winterhaven, California, a small town near the Mexican border, significantly shaped his artistic approach. His Southwest desert upbringing influenced his blue-collar defiance of traditional beauty norms often found in contemporary art.
This video also provides historical reference and artistic analysis when comparing multiple examples of Taylor’s sculptures and paintings and their related influences to Pablo Picasso, Keith Haring, Philip Guston, Von Dutch, Big Daddy Roth, and his love for intertwining subjects that atypically appear as opposites.
“Modest things like trash that people normally think are not beautiful,” along with a celebration of colors that seemingly vibrate in a complimentary way, illuminate the screen with artistic virtuosity.
In his Los Angeles art studio, McKimens surrounds himself with various eclectic items, including collected comics, books, vinyl records, artist monographs, a history of sketches, brilliantly rendered paintings, self-published books, and sculptural works. Taylor McKimens presents a creatively charged environment that allows for various project workspaces, a testament to the prolific work he does daily as he operates his commercial art studio.
Throughout his career, McKimens has held solo exhibitions at prestigious venues worldwide, such as the Wart’s Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, Deitch Projects in New York, and Studio d’Arte Raffaelli in Trento. His work has also been featured in group exhibitions at institutions like the MACRO Museum in Rome and the Garage Md’Arteof Contemporary Art in Moscow.
Original music was contributed by artist John Wiley, who performed “Long Time Gone” and Slow Yer Row.” Click here to visit Taylor McKimons’ website.
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