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Taylor Woolwine

Taylor Woolwine

Artist
Profile Location
Cincinnati , OH
Artist Statement

Using my studio as subject matter, I make paintings about perception, space, and image making. I am an observational painter at heart, and I struggle with a rift that has formed between what is felt and what is expressed in my paintings. The excitement and spontaneity of the first fleeting glimpse has always been my inspiration and impetus for image making. The seeming impossibility of capturing that ephemeral moment without merely illustrating it has led to my current work. How does the artist capture a fleeting glimpse using a process that spans over many hours, days, or even weeks? I investigate this question through my paintings, which often consist of many layers of failed attempts to capture specific moments. Imbedded in nearly every painting are several views of the objects and interior of my studio. In this sense the paintings are tangible documented histories of their own making, as honest and open as possible. During the paintings’ construction, a steady stream of new imagery constantly intrudes on the old, creating jarring juxtapositions. The resulting images simultaneously contain everything and nothing, creating a new visual realm which transcends the sum of its parts. The layered nature of these paintings inherently must accept and celebrate spontaneity and chance. My love of naturalism and depiction melds and clashes with flatness and abstraction. The studio has become a space to celebrate contradiction. Employing a combination of intuitive and analytical modes of working, the paintings are flat surfaces full of depth, both mysterious and ordinary, smooth and rough, graphic and atmospheric; all contributing to a kind of nowhere place devoid of conventional logic. Objects crystallize and disintegrate in ways that relate to remembrance and forgetting, production and erosion. The images produced are busy and precarious, reflecting the intense and impermanent nature of our visual world and the impossibility of grasping it in its entirety.

Medium
Painting
Drawing
 
 

Exhibitions Featuring this Artist

Taylor Woolwine
Jul
05
7/5/19 to 7/26/19
Multiple Mediums
Brett Anderson
Owen Buffington
Matt Bukrey
Anne Burton
Jordan Buschur
Neil Celani
Heather Jo Davis
Lindsey Day
Matthew Dercole
Amanda Durig
Katelyn Farneth
Gerit Grimm
PJ Hargraves
Luke Huling
Anthony Park Kascak
G.V. Kelley
Brian Kluge
Michael Ian Larsen
Julia Leggent
Elise Loomis
Jon Love
Bartholomew Lynch
Kristen Martincic
Bri Murphy
Nathan Murray
Liana Owad
McKenzie Phelps
Jason Piccoli
Kristin Powers Nowlin
Kate Running
Bill Shaffer
Maria Spiess
Susan Stark-Johnson
Sara Truman
Stephanie Leach Vendetti
Cody Weber
Taylor Woolwine
Mar
04
3/4/22 to 5/27/22
Multiple Mediums

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