DAILY SERVING » Taylor McKimens https://www.dailyserving.com an international forum for contemporary art Thu, 18 Feb 2021 03:54:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.13 Taylor McKimens https://www.dailyserving.com/2008/02/taylor-mckimens-2/ https://www.dailyserving.com/2008/02/taylor-mckimens-2/#comments Fri, 15 Feb 2008 07:00:00 +0000 http://localhost:8888/?p=457 TAYLOR MCKIMENS.jpg

Artist Taylor McKimens is currently presenting a new group of paintings featuring his signature illustrated grotesque figures and objects in an exhibition titled Sweet Dreams of Phoenix with Gallery Loyal in Stockholm Sweden. The artist renders the mildly monstrous images with color and compassion, drawing influence from sources like MAD Magazine and Garbage Pail Kids. In addition to his paintings, McKimens also created large graphic cutouts that serve to bring his paintings into real space. McKimens began to reach national attention shortly after his graduation from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA when the artist began to exhibit with New Image Art Gallery in Los Angeles. Since, the artist has exhibited with Deitch Projects and Clementine Gallery in NYC, as well as Annet Gelink in Amsterdam and Perugi Arte Contemporanea in Padova, Italy.

Mckimens has been previously featured on DailyServing.

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The work of Taylor McKimens is included in the new exhibition “Mail Order Monsters,” on view this month at Deitch Projects in New York City. McKimens creates an array of comics, zines, paintings, and site specific cut-out installations. The artist has stated being interested in “everyday things that are loaded somehow,” portraying the tragic and the humorous with equal strength. Many of the artist’s sculptures look as if they are three dimensional cartoons taken from another context and placed before the viewer.

McKimens is currently represented by Galerie Zurcher in Paris, Perugi Arte Contemporanea in Padova, Italy and Galleri Loyal in Stockholm, Sweden. The artist has appeared in Art Krush, Tokyo Art Beat, and idPure Magazine, Issue No.9.

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