Neal Taylor
nealtaylor.us | @skladada | Artist’s CV
"Red, White, & Blue III"
"Perceptual Field Study C 1 & 2"
"Moments Before the Sky Clears - (Installation-Interior View)"
"Tug of War (Series)"
"T.M.I."
"Geo Two - Rug"
"Breakthrough"
"Moments Before the Sky Clears (Installation - Exterior View)"
Taylor’s work has been exhibited in Brazil, Canada, England, France, Germany, Italia, Japan, Portugal, U.S. (L.A., San Francisco, N.Y.C., Reno NV, Seattle, N.C.).
Has completed two Artist in Residencies in Europe, as well as two California Arts Council Residencies one in schools one in community, and N.C. Arts Council, S.C. Arts Council.
EDUCATION
BFA-Sculpture University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Graduate Studies Art Ed. Teachers Training K-12 Sherwood Oaks Experimental College, Film Making N.C. State University, Graduate Studies, Computer Textile DesignMassage Therapy, IPSB, Culver City, CA
OTHER INTERESTS
Gardening, Hiking, Bicycle riding, Cooking, Mail Art, Social and Environmental Issues, Massage Therapy.
As an Artist I have found many means of expression. My perspectives for approaching Art and the World cannot be served in a single medium. I feel that communicating the intent of the work to the viewer in the best possible way is my goal. For myself that is born in various mediums and ways of expression. That may be in mail art, works on paper, sculpture, photography, graphics, video and writing soundscapes to accompany them. My work operates in the arenas between the possibilities of Consciousness, Beauty and the Gap between. Beyond rhetorical dialogue Art should reach into the mind, body and soul. It should delight, tickle, grab or slap you and send you back into the world a little different than you were before your experience. As time goes on I am learning the meaning of persistence and of continuing to work. Moving forward beyond the constraints of market and ideologies. Beyond what as a culture and sub-cultures we think we want.
I wish to promote a dialogue and make a visual impact on the viewer. For the Answers to our questions is not in “The Old” or “The New” but in posing the Right Questions and giving Time to Listen. This is the Gap that needs to be filled and where I hope to reside.
~ Neal Taylor