Henry Taylor is a contemporary African-American painter whose enigmatic works include portraits of psychiatric patients, historical figures, friends, and pop culture references, as seen in his Untitled (2021)—a rendition of Kendrick Lamar’s album cover for DAMN (2017). "I paint everyone, or I try to,” the artist has explained. “I try to capture the moment I am with someone who could be my friend, a neighbor, a celebrity, or a homeless person.” Taylor’s colorful, expressive paintings are characterized by their emotional intimacy and gestural looseness, following in the tradition of American artists such as Alice Neel and Jacob Lawrence. Born in 1958 in Oxnard, CA, his father was employed as a painter...