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Taylor S. King

@tee.es.k

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Taylor is a painter and restoration artist in Fort Worth, Texas. Taylor was born in the Dallas area in March 1989 and grew up in Northwest Arkansas and Dallas/Fort Worth. Homeschooled for much of his childhood, Taylor spent ample time daydreaming in woods or losing himself in book worlds. Music and performance always had their appeal, and Taylor stretched these interests singing in church and gigging in local punk bands, always doodling and playing with visual ideas. A post-high school journey from considering ministry to the military settled on returning home to make art and play music. In the 2010s, he was encouraged by a close friend to focus on visual art, and entered the Arts Dept. at Tarrant County College and earned an Associates of Arts degree in Visual Arts. Rather than continuing school, Taylor chose to work, but was offered a job to restore antique artwork at Dow Art Galleries, where he continues to serve the Fort Worth area as a restoration artist.

Artist Statement

I have a few different styles or genres of painted images I make, and I used to think I needed to choose one to focus on but they each have their purpose. I have always loved nature, so I do oil landscapes and cloudscapes. I have a sense of humor, so I do a cartoonish style in mixed media that can be satirical and psychedelic. I also have big questions about life, the universe, and everything, and my more abstract images serve that purpose. Forms and gradients of color are like a meditation, and I stare at the canvas and intuit my sense of balance. The geometric shapes in many of my paintings are something I call “geometriforms”, something I used to help me think about Plato’s Realm of Ideal Forms in PHIL 101, and they take the place of whatever subject I’m thinking of while painting. I balance out the shapes in the space, playing with the color and value, sensing if it feels right. They are also a nice piece of design to practice technical aspects of oil painting. Sometimes I place the geometriforms on a plane or in a land- or cloudscape. Rather than keeping myself to one style, I think it’s important to explore all these aspects of myself and my practice.