Unlike previous exhibitions, “Sum of its parts” features fragments of figures and faces as though they are too big to fit on the canvas. The portraits are bursting out from the restraints of the canvas edges. They don’t want to fit “inside the box”.
Michael is a South African artist who was born in 1979 and grew up in Johannesburg. After matriculating in 1997 he moved to the Western Cape to study Visual Communication design at Stellenbosch University. Immediately after graduating in 2001 he entered a postgraduate Masters Degree programme at the same department – his research focused on image interpretation and semiotic studies for visual art.
Michael Taylor mimics the immediate and expansive nature of the drawing process in order to develop scenes and characters in his painted work. Removed from its purely observational qualities, drawing becomes a projection of the artist’s intuition, imagination and memory. Representational and figurative elements in Taylor’s paintings create narrative frameworks that are unravelled to varying degrees through abstract marking.
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Darlinghurst, Sydney
NSW, Australia
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