Artist field note

Henry Taylor

Painting the people history walks past.

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Cicely and Miles Visit the Obamas by Henry Taylor
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Cicely and Miles Visit the Obamas

2017

Friends, famous figures and imagined encounters share the same democratic pictorial space.

The five in one idea

Taylor makes portraiture a form of attention - fast, humane and radically democratic.