Surely one of the necessary attributes of any artist’s studio ought to be security, on several levels. Picasso’s million dollar studio, in a couple of French chateaus, included numerous spaces, each behind a locked door, and he enjoyed waving around a giant ring of keys as he unlocked […]
In Europe, art enthusiasts occasionally come across dismantled fragments of some major, long-gone work of art in a museum or gallery. Often these are surviving parts of some noteworthy, even famous architectural commission from a building that was subsequently damaged in war or otherwise demolished. This might include […]
Walking into Phillips Gallery at 4 p.m., an hour before closing time and a day before Stroll and the official opening, I see Meri Ploetz DeCaria, a third of the current show in the Main Gallery, chatting on the phone — animatedly for the usually reserved gallery director […]
The gallery on the fourth floor of the City Library includes not only a large interior space but also its exterior walls and the mezzanine-like floor space outside. Normally, it rewards two artists sharing the space. The sculptor Cordell Taylor has taken over all of it, as well […]
In a vintage wisecrack, Ad Reinhardt once defined a sculpture as “something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.” Gallery owner Thomas J. Howa knows the sentiment, but disagrees. Himself a painter, Howa doesn’t see how showcasing two artists in the same medium […]
Sculptor Cordell Taylor is working towards a show he has in May at Agora Gallery in Chelsea, N. Y. “I’ve been showing there for the last couple of years with the “Geo-Met Series” I’ve been working on over the past 10 or so years,” he says. In an artist […]
photos by Manju Varghese :: text by Daniel Barton Cordell Taylor’s art studio is definitely not your average metal sculptor’s workspace. Located at 333 Pierpont Avenue, it is as unique as the artist himself. The immaculate studio has a hard wood floor and a rustic look, testifying to […]
A Gallery is big – on sculpture. The new group sculpture show at A Gallery features many of the area’s finest sculptors. Represented in this knock-out exhibit are artists David Adams, Brian Berman, Laurie Burns, Brian Christensen, Anne Gregerson, John Haley III, Deborah Jong, Nnamdi Okonkwo, Ed Pogue, […]
Cordell Taylor is a Salt Lake City–based sculptor whose work draws on industrial processes, architectural structure, and a deep understanding of materials. Before earning a BFA in Sculpture from the University of Utah in 1992, Taylor worked in the western U.S. oilfields and as a professional ironworker and […]
