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Henry Taylor: Chicago Kin Feb 1 - Mar 15, 2008
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Henry Taylor
Chicago Cous, 2007
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Henry Taylor
I Just Wanted to Have a Taste, 2008
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Samson Projects is pleased to present a solo exhibition of works by Los Angeles based Henry Taylor. Everyone seems to need to know: “…canvas, cereal boxes, suitcases depict friends and family at curbside barbecues, sporting events, and other neighborhood activities...” eg. Portraits.
The exhibition, Chicago Kin, as he calls it, is about an “extended” family. The artist’s social interactions, political awareness and recollection of his Chicago folk are source material for this latest work. The family is the original community and perhaps the 1st political institution.
Sweet and nasty. The dynamics of kith & kin can be broad and when seen through the lens of race, class, ethnicity, spirituality or gender becomes a unifying situation. Taylor paints with the reality of economic/class disproportion and tension (in the US & Africa) in mind. Get close, in spirit, we are all kin. You know what I mean?
Henry Taylor was born in Oxnard, California in 1958. He received a BA from the California Institute of the Arts in 1995. He recently had his 1st US museum solo exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem and has an upcoming project room at the Santa Monica Museum of Art.
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