{"id":37137,"date":"2018-02-23T17:05:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T23:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=37137"},"modified":"2018-09-18T09:37:20","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T15:37:20","slug":"sunny-belliston-taylor-martin-puryear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/sunny-belliston-taylor-martin-puryear\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunny Belliston Taylor + Martin Puryear"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cVenus and the Gift,\u201d Sunny Taylor, acrylic on panel, 29\u00d725,\u201d 2017<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

When she\u2019s creating her paintings, Sunny Belliston Taylor thinks in terms of\u00a0\u201cconstructing\u201d an image, or \u201cbuilding\u201d a surface.\u00a0 \u201cI piece visual information together in a way that feels very sculptural,\u201d she says. \u201cAnd although my works are flat, I\u2019m always concerned with their objecthood, the way they are viewed from all angles, their presence in a room.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It\u2019s no wonder, then, that most of her favorite artists are sculptors, including Martin Puryear.\u00a0\u201cHe makes gorgeous, abstract forms that are sometimes anthropomorphic, sometimes industrial, always poetic.\u201d Puryear is a Washington, D.C., artist who now lives in New York\u2019s Hudson Valley. He is a master craftsman who works in wood, stone, ceramic, metal, and other materials and was influenced by minimalism, though he ultimately rejected the impersonal nature of the movement.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cThe way [Puryear] pieces together materials to construct large objects, his devotion to surface quality and texture, the way he allows process and material to drive the work and then lets concept and meaning follow \u2014 these are just a few of his artistic practices that resonate with me and validate my own approach to art making.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u201cHominid,\u201d Martin Puryear, 2007 \u2013 2011, Pine,
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Taylor\u00a0is a Utah native who attended Brigham Young University for her BFA and Ohio State University for her MFA.\u00a0After teaching\u00a0as an assistant professor in the Studio Arts program of BYU from 2008-2014, she left the university to concentrate on art and family.\u00a0 She\u2019ll be part of the \u201cCertain Women\u201d group exhibit opening at Anthony\u2019s Fine Art\u201d on March 2. She says she feels embarrassed to put her work next to an artist like Puryear, whom she admires so much, \u201cbut, I somehow feel a kinship to this talented man and the way he approaches the art object.\u201d<\/div>\n
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