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timothY taYlor
Born in Philadelphia, PA, USA. Lives and works in Marianna Islands CNMI

THE ARTIST ONLINE www.sculpture.org/timothytaylor

Timothy Taylor calls it studio as perfectly valid.
“Experimentation with a As if it was right there
whimsical irreverence”. the whole time but it
Asserting a paradox, “… was in a blind spot that
rejection of cognition., was growing bigger and
matter over mind bigger with every art
facilitates improvisation seminar and lecture I
from concept to went to”.
finish” to conjure the The consequences of
“unpredictable object investing in art-play
of good luck“. In a fickle were humbling at first.
art world, known for As economics factored
both a love of tradition into the equation,
and a certain fatigue, Taylor began carving
this sculptor muses that from small chunks of
the creative challenge inexpensive material
as “a willingness to - plaster molded in a
gamble in a life-game chocolate milk carton,
best played as if the Styrofoam scraps, found
stakes were low“. The wood, pastels… The
artist has taken some “Fresco Forms“, pastels
chances in life to be in plaster painted over
sure, risking “…what spontaneous shapes
few comforts there are. have a soft, elegant
Safety has to be stowed surface. “Spackle
away if you are going Forms”, polyurethane
out on a new highway, foam coated with… yes,
where all the signs warn spackle. given some
travel at your own risk”. Hungarian porcelain,
Timothy Taylor diverted Taylor cut playful
from an MFA program to shapes into small
attend medical school “whiffel balls“. Yet,
but soon found himself “poverty isn’t always
welding in the garage basement early mornings before anatomy class. the rule“. The bronzes are made from carved polystyrene painted with
The medical career never got off the ground. “The world of medicine was hot beeswax, an “aromatic” process. And, now living on a Pacific Island,
equally commercial. I continued my soul searching after med school and Taylor recently completed a large cement sculpture, “Artifact”, for a deep
went to an apprenticeship at the Johnson Atelier in New Jersey. There I was, jungle installation. Other large installations include a giant PvC pipe
an MD working for four bucks an hour getting dizzy mixing mold rubber in a conduit for ultraviolet lamps that illuminate stage paints in a wild, “eye-
foundry, pondering the meaning of life. I see the whole problem of making popping” displays. “I like to catch the academics enjoying ‘eye candy’
art freely in this worker’s society as completely insurmountable, and I while they think no-one is watching… Using new materials doesn’t have
boiled the task down to this: how to create art without falling prey to the to mean a complete rejection of time tested values. But you will run
multitude of theories and issues that lurk to infect all the artists who simply into a little resistance from the art establishment sometimes…”, Timothy
wish to create. I realized that for me the only way to get that satisfaction Taylor continues in the self referential fantasy. But this art is starting to
was to boldly accept my very primordial love of fooling around in the get noticed.
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