Taylor Simmons
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Human-crafted. AI-refined.This vibrant painting depicts a close-up portrait of a Black man with an intense, expressive gaze. The artist has utilized bold, gestural brushstrokes in a palette of warm oranges, reds, and yellows to render the subject's features, which are framed by a dynamic, radiating background. The exaggerated, almost caricature-like rendering of the man's face conveys a sense of power and emotion, inviting the viewer to consider the complex relationship between representation, identity, and artistic interpretation. While the specific context is unclear, the artwork seems to engage with themes of identity, social consciousness, and the artist's personal perspective on the human experience. ...
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Taylor Simmons
1990Taylor Simmons' practice incorporates painting, printmaking and drawing to create predominantly figurative works that centre on the emotional and physical essence of the contemporary lives he depicts. His process stems from his archive of compulsively collated imagery, which merge and manifest in his canvases through loose lines, gestural marks, fluorescent washes and erasure –– scraping the paint away to reveal abstract details. By gathering and layering fragments of what is around him, his work creates a reflection of who he is and what he sees: a face, a pose, a moment, weaving them together as a means to question why they meant something in the first place. ...
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