Jack Taylor

Born in Seattle, WA / Works in Pittsburgh, PA

BIO

Jack Taylor is an artist an educator hailing from Seattle, Washington. Jack earned hisBFA with an emphasis on painting, printmaking, photography, and drawing fromCarnegie Mellon University in 2018. His practice deals with the changing landscape ofthe pacific northwest and how it ties into personal history, Americana, and notions oflabour and industry at large.

Underneath the thick forwardness of Jacks' colors, you'll hear a sustained note of time and nostalgia. Objects are given full attention from one edge of the canvas to another, pouring out at you sans the subtlety of traditional perspective - objects symbolic of American life both in relation to nature and to industry. What makes you nostalgic for the time of industry? Is it your childhood? Your connection to nature that surrounds you? Or a beautiful fiction?

You'll love Jack if: your superpower is having conversations with children without regressing to baby talk.

"My work deals with gentle decay of landscapes and objects. Using drawing, painting, and photography I create spaces reminiscent or directly linked to the Pacific northwest where I grew up. I explore how family, home, and relationships inform this space and often rely on a variety or mark making and color palettes to articulate what I see. With this place comes notions of American idealism, and the beauty of nature decaying in ways both natural and unnatural. I’m interested in fantastical realism, implicit sadness, vulnerability, awkward tension, and the aging that comes through the work as I explore how time effects space. "