Henry Taylor

The fascinating life and work of Los Angeles legend Henry Taylor, celebrated painter, is chronicled for the first time in a lush monograph. Henry Taylor's first major monograph will collect 200 of the painter's portraits and street scenes; more importantly, it will collect his thoughts. For three decades the iconic artist has worked his way through New York, Los Angeles, and more recently Africa, on a dizzying quest to document what he sees. In his circle are artists, musicians, writers, and performers from Skrillex to friends from his ten years as a psychiatric technician. It is the artist's roving and empathetic eye that allows him to imagine his figures with grace--not better than they are, or more glamorous--but part of a big good world. Flat, brushy flows of colour rough in figures that often float in surreal landscapes abstracted from the barbeque in the park, or neighbouring street.