The first comprehensive museum exhibition of American artist Al Taylor (1948-1999), on view at the High Museum of Art through March 18, is a project long envisioned by curator Michael Rooks. As Rooks said in a recent interview, his interest in Taylor dates back to 1998, when he first encountered Taylor’s work while he was living and working in Hawaii. The current exhibition was over a decade in the making. It gives full attention to the scope and range of Taylor’s output from the mid-’80s―after he gave up painting and turned his attention to drawing, printmaking, and sculpture―through the late ’90s.
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