NYAB Event - Al Taylor "Rim Jobs and Sideffects"

Al Taylor "Rim Jobs and Sideffects"

David Zwirner 19th Street

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David Zwirner presents a selection of drawings and three-dimensional objects by Al Taylor. On view at the gallery’s 519 West 19th Street space, the exhibition presents a comprehensive exploration of two series: Rim Jobs, from 1995, and Sideffects (sic.), which includes works that span from 1995 to 1997.

While he began his studio practice as a painter, in 1985 Taylor devised a uniquely innovative approach to process and materials that encompassed two-dimensional drawings and three-dimensional objects. Taylor ultimately sought to expand the possibilities of vision by creating new ways of experiencing and imagining space, and his work provides the viewer with an insight into the artist’s thinking and his investigations of perception across several dimensions.

Taylor saw no distinction between his three-dimensional works and his drawings, even going so far as to dismiss the term “sculpture” altogether for his constructions, referring to them instead as “drawings in space” or as “drawing instruments.” During an interview in 1992, when he was asked by Ulrich Loock about the relationship between drawing and three-dimensionality in his work, the artist responded, “It’s one and the same...Working on paper or on pieces really is the same thing; it’s all one activity that I am not interested in separating.”

Media

• Drawing
• Sculpture

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