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Everyone's Momma by Henry Taylor

Henry Taylor. Too Sweet. 2016. Acrylic on canvas. 12' × 72" (335.3 × 182.9 cm). Gift of Lonti Ebers. 791.2017. Painting and Sculpture

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The Los Angeles-based artist has long been known for his paintings and his personality. This spring, for the Whitney Biennial, he’s bringing his outsize work to New York

LA gallery Blum & Poe hosts its fourth solo show of work by California born artist Henry Taylor, with a new film by Kahil Joseph. Henry Taylor’s acrylic paintings illustrate people who occupy very different public, private, interior and exterior spaces across the entire spectrum of American society. “My paintings are what I see around me… They are my landscape paintings,” he says. Henry’s work highlights the social and political issues – racial inequality, homelessness and poverty – faced by…

Henry Taylor, The Sweet William Rorex, Jr. , 2010 Henry Taylor, Diana Sofia, is this you? Feeling brown is not blu e , 2012, Acrylic...

Prolific L.A. painter Henry Taylor has been compulsively knocking out colorful depictions of friends, family, and intriguing passersby for decades, without much concern for his art-world status or his market. So why are both now suddenly skyrocketing?

His new retrospective at the Whitney, Henry Taylor: B Side, is the best show of 2023, showing his depictions of Jay Z, Philando Castile, the Obamas, and others.

In advance of Henry Taylor’s exhibition at Blum and Poe, the artist met Laura Hoptman, Executive Director of the Drawing Center, at the Drawing Center on Wooster Street in Soho for a conversation.