{"id":61642,"date":"2022-02-02T08:55:48","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T14:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=61642"},"modified":"2022-02-03T09:39:55","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T15:39:55","slug":"richard-taylor-is-inspired-by-artists-who-work-with-color-and-form-to-create-an-emotional-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/richard-taylor-is-inspired-by-artists-who-work-with-color-and-form-to-create-an-emotional-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Taylor is Inspired by Artists Who Work with Color and Form to Create an Emotional Charge"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Richard Taylor scrawls mathematical equations across a canvas, as he does in his 2019 piece “Schwarzschild and all that,” or invokes a German physicist and astronomer in the title,\u00a0 it’s not some form of intellectual posing, an aesthete veering sharply out of his lane. The Salt Lake City artist has graduate degrees in Physics (M.S., Brigham Young University) and Materials Science (Ph.D., Duke), has worked as a researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and has lectured on quantum mechanics, physical symmetry, and materials properties at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.<\/h4>\n

Most recently, Taylor’s interest in materials has focused on the properties of oil paint, spread on canvas, and its capacity to express emotions. “I explore form, color, and material as the phonemes of a reductionist language of emotional expression,” Taylor says of his work.<\/h4>\n
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Richard Taylor’s “The Sky Enters Me Like a Sword”<\/p><\/div>\n

His influences are strongly rooted in mid-century American art. “A chorus of voices joins me when I paint: Frankenthaler\u2019s and the Washington School artists\u2019 work on color, de Kooning\u2019s and Serra\u2019s work on form, Guston\u2019s social commentary and emotional charge; the writing of Clement Greenberg, Richard Serra, and so forth are deep conceptual wells to build on, modify, distort, and transform.<\/h4>\n

But there is one voice that for me has been louder than the rest: de Kooning is the artist that consistently brings me to tears. His gestural approach is at once spontaneous and contemplative. Maybe it\u2019s the confluence of chaos and intention in his work that deeply reflects the human condition. I love his work the same way I love sleeping in the desert or walking alone in the woods.”<\/h4>\n
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Taylor’s sees in Willem de Kooning’s 1950 work “Excavation” an inspiring combination of chaos and intention. Image \u00a9 2018 The Willem de Kooning Foundation<\/p><\/div>\n

Taylor’s work can be viewed at Meyer Gallery<\/a> in Park City and online at http:\/\/instagram.com\/richardtaylorart<\/a>. In November of this year Bountiful Davis Art Center will host an exhibition of his work.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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